Active Screen Reader

Question

Every time I open a new folder or restart my laptop I see an "Screen Reader Detected" warning in my terminal window.

I have also tried turning "off" the accessibility Support in the terminal setting, but still no luck.

Is there any way to solve this problem. Or maybe a way to detect the screen reader so that I can turn it off.

Note: I have not installed any external screen readers. I also have turned "off" the "Narrator" in my windows 10 machine.

Answer 1

This can happen if you have any accessability tools installed on your device like NVDA (non-visual desktop access), and also some web dev suites as they will often include accessibility assessment tools.

These tools will toggle a registry value that can 'light up' accessibility features on apps that are designed with this in mind.

The specific key to check is here, which you can navigate to with regedit.exe:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\Blind Access

if you have the Key On with a value of 1, then this will trigger the warning.

To remove the warning, simply set the key to 0. You can do this with PowerShell or the old school reg command.

reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Accessibility\Blind Access" /V On /d 0

Source: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/11751