1.6.34.0 | Screen Narrator turns on every time you edit Tail Number

User Support Hub User Interface & Activities
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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
Every time you start editing the Tail Number, the Screen Narrator turns itself on and starts speaking.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Every time.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Open Settings > Accessibility > Narration and audio > and confirm that “Enable Screen Narrator” is OFF. Click “Save and Back”

  2. Navigate to Free Flight > Change Aircraft > Configuration > Identification > Tail Number

  3. Begin editing the Tail Number, and Narrator will turn itself on and start speaking.

  4. Go back to Settings > Accessibility > Narration and audio > and you will see that Enable Screen Narrator" has turned itself on.

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using:
Keyboard, Mouse, Controller

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
No

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?
DX12

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
RTX 5090

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
9800X3D / TAA / Ultra

MEDIA

20251216-narration-01-setting-off
20251216-narration-01-setting-off2560×1440 149 KB

20251216-narration-02-edit-tail-number
20251216-narration-02-edit-tail-number2560×1440 181 KB

20251216-narration-03-setting-on
20251216-narration-03-setting-on2560×1440 168 KB
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check your keyboard bindings.
Toggle Screen Narrator default keyboard binding is ALT+BACKSPACE.
Check whether ALT is not inadvertenly active while editing tail number

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It is not active.

I have changed the keyboard binding for: Toggle Screen Narrator
From: “ALT BACKSPACE” (default)
To: “SHIFT BACKSPACE”
in order to use “ALT BACKSPACE” for something else.

However, when editing the Tail Number, If I press “Shift” it should NOT activate screen narrator unless SHIFT AND BACKSPACE are pressed together.

I had reported a bug a while back where keyboard bindings would activate even when the keys pressed did not match

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Cannot reproduce. I have updated my Toggle Screen Narrator mapping to “SHIFT BACKSPACE” and when updating the tail number using SHIFT only it does not trigger the screen narrator.

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Out of curiosity, I checked if I could reproduce this in the SU5 beta.
Editing the tail number doesn’t trigger the narrator.

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@GimbalAxis : are you still experiencing the issue ?

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No, seems to be fixed for me, I’m in SU5 Beta.

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Moved to User Support Hub since issue seems to be fixed in SU5 Beta and no one else reported it in the Live version.