problem text is spoken repeatedly, two times with each instance, until the problem is resolved

Issue Type: Bug

When f8 is used to find the next problem, my screen reader speaks the problem, waits about two seconds, then speaks it again. The major problem, though, is that this continues to happen. Each time I write another statement, and often when I just arrow around my code, the problem text is spoken twice. The quickest way I’ve found to deal with the constant interruptions is by fixing the problem, but that’s not always desired, or even possible. I might know a function doesn’t yet return the type it says it should, but I’m still writing the code that will get me to the correct return type. As I type/review the code, I’m constantly reminded that the return type doesn’t match the signature, just because I hit f8 once to check the code I have so far.

I’m using NVDA, the latest public version (2022.2). When this problem happens, the problem text is brailled as well as being spoken. This is even more disruptive; if speech were the worst of it, at least I could still review code in braille until NVDA shuts up about the problem. I can’t emphasize enough how annoying this can get.

VS Code version: Code 1.69.2 (3b889b090b5ad5793f524b5d1d39fda662b96a2a, 2022-07-18T16:12:52.460Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044 Restricted Mode: No Remote OS version: Linux x64 4.19.0-17-amd64 Remote OS version: Linux x64 4.19.0-17-amd64 Remote OS version: Linux x64 4.19.0-17-amd64

System Info

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GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_renderer: enabled_on video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
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Memory (System)	15.95GB (8.02GB free)
Process Argv	–crash-reporter-id eed1c6d2-9716-48dc-a584-f8fbc80a0901
Screen Reader	yes
VM	24%

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Remote	SSH: git.autodist.com
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Memory (System)	7.79GB (0.32GB free)
VM	100%

Item	Value
Remote	SSH: server35.autodist.com
OS	Linux x64 4.19.0-17-amd64
CPUs	Intel® Xeon® Gold 6248 CPU @ 2.50GHz (2 x 2494)
Memory (System)	7.79GB (0.32GB free)
VM	100%

Item	Value
Remote	SSH: git.autodist.com
OS	Linux x64 4.19.0-17-amd64
CPUs	Intel® Xeon® Gold 6248 CPU @ 2.50GHz (2 x 2494)
Memory (System)	7.79GB (0.32GB free)
VM	100%

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[mehgcap]

I’ll try to make a test file tonight that has the problem. The one I’m working with now is a work file, so I can’t share it.

[mehgcap]

Now that I think about it, this exact problem happens with language detection. I’d bet money that the cause of one is the cause of the other.

Press ctrl-n to open a new file, then type something that’s obviously a specific language. Maybe the opening PHP tag, or DROP TABLE IF EXISTS, or anything else that comes to mind. You want VSCode to detect the language in use.

Once this happens, you’ll hear “language [language name] was automatically detected and set as the language mode.” For me, almost every time I make any further edits, I hear that same message, usually twice per keystroke. To stop this, I have to save the file, so the language detection goes away.

Both problems behave identically, though it is possible that this one is happening because every edit triggers the language detection again, so the results are being updated and thus read aloud. Does anyone else experience this?