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# Accessibility

The features work through the editor's [accessibility methods](/editor/accessibility) and the words of the `editor` namespace, in English and Dutch. Focus stays in the text while a card is open, and the textarea points at the card.

## What a screen reader hears

* The suggestion list and a snippet's choice list are listboxes. While one is open, the textarea points at it with `aria-controls` and at its active option with `aria-activedescendant`, so a screen reader reads the option while focus stays in the text.
* Moving to a problem says its severity and message, such as `Error: Cannot find name`.
* A snippet says `Field 2 of 3` on each field, and `Field 1 of 3, 4 choices` when a field opens a choice list.
* `EditorView` names the fold controls from `language.fold`.
* The [call hierarchy](/editor-react/call-hierarchy#accessibility) is a tree that announces each answer.
* [`DiffView`](/editor-react/diff-view#accessibility) marks changed lines in text.
* A [rendered documentation](/editor-react/rendered-documentation) block is a group named after the first words of its summary.

The symbol picker is a dialog with its own input.

## What has no keyboard route

Inlay hint actions need a pointer; only the tooltip has a keyboard path, through Quick Info. See [inlay hints](/editor-react/hover#inlay-hints). A host that offers those actions adds its own keyboard route.

Nothing here has been tested with a screen reader.