What does this "Screen reader support option" prompt means?

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创建于 2020年08月06日 02:14

Hello everyone,

I recently saw a prompt when I open JetBrains IDEs for the first time after installing it. Same thing happened when I opened WebStorm and PyCharm also. What does it means? I didn't install any third party screen reader application. And I didn't see this prompt ever before, recently after resetting my PC when I installed these IDEs for the first time I am seeing this. And there is a default screen reader in windows which is Narrator, but this feature is turned off.You can see the prompt.

And this is the screen reader feature, which is turned off. Can anyone please explain what is this? and how to solve this thing? Is it good or a bad thing? since I have never seen this before.

My OS: Windows 10 Home

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Serge Baranov

创建于 2020年08月06日 03:38

If you don't want to see this dialog, you can add

ide.support.screenreaders.enabled=false

in Help | Edit Custom Properties and restart the IDE.

You get this dialog because the following method returns true on your system:

/*
* get Windows SPI_GETSCREENREADER system parameter
* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-systemparametersinfoa#SPI_GETSCREENREADER
*/
private static boolean isWindowsScreenReaderEnabled() {
  //get Windows SPI_GETSCREENREADER system parameter
  //https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-systemparametersinfoa#SPI_GETSCREENREADER
  BOOLByReference isActive = new BOOLByReference();
  boolean retValue = User32Ex.INSTANCE.SystemParametersInfo(new UINT(0x0046), new UINT(0), isActive, new UINT(0));
  return retValue && isActive.getValue().booleanValue();
}

Md. Badruzzaman

创建于 2020年08月06日 04:38

Serge Baranov thanks for replying.

Is there any way to change the setting in my system?

Serge Baranov

创建于 2020年08月06日 05:24

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/8081894/104891 .

There could be some other app running on your system which acts as a screen reader. Unfortunately, we don't know which specific app is causing this issue.

Md. Badruzzaman

创建于 2020年08月06日 10:27

Serge Baranov is it okay if this screen reader thing is turned on? I mean will it gonna be a problem if I leave this thing as it is? Is it very necessary to turn it off? Any cons.?

Serge Baranov

创建于 2020年08月06日 16:11

No cons, it will not affect anything in the IDE.

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