2017164 - The Assistant response is not automatically read out loud by Screen Readers after submitting a prompt

Status: NEW

(Core :: Machine Learning: Frontend, defect, P1)

Description

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Attachment: RESPONSE.mp4

Found in

• Nightly 149.0a1 (2026-02-16)

Affected versions

• Nightly 149.0a1 (2026-02-16)

Affected platforms

• all

Preconditions
Have Screen Readers enabled.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a New smart window.
2. Reache the Smart bar using keyboard navigation.
3. Ask for anything and hit enter on the keyboard.

Expected result

• The Screen readers should automatically read out loud the text from the Assistant.
  It should be easy for the users to reach the Text from the Assistant.

Actual result

• The Assistant response is not read out loud by the Screen readers.
  The only way for a user to reach the Assistant reply is to use Shift+ Tab in order to reach the Copy button from the response and the to use the Up arrow key in order to read the entire prompt from Finish to Start.

Regression range
N/A

Comment 1

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

S3 because there is a workaround.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:Mardak, could you have a look please?

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