Flight Log / microsoft/WinUI-Gallery #1983
Fix Counter Control accessibility: Enable Narrator announcements for value changes — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in microsoft/WinUI-Gallery on Jul 30, 2025; merged after rework in 5.1 h, merged by @niels9001: +1,023 −766, 88 files, 3 reviews.
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- 5.1 h
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- fix
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Copilot fixed the Counter Control in microsoft/WinUI-Gallery so Narrator announces value changes when Increase and Decrease are activated. The change touched 88 files, with 1023 additions and 766 deletions, across five commits. A reviewer wrote "This does not work." requesting one change. The pull request merged after 5.12 hours and three reviews.
“This does not work. You might be missing var peer = FrameworkElementAutomationPeer.FromElement(targetTextBlock) ?? FrameworkElementAutomationPeer.CreatePeerForElement(targetTextBlock); peer?.RaiseAutomationEvent(AutomationEvents.LiveRegionChanged); Also don't update the tests, so just remove it.”
— from the review (source)
From the pull request description
The Counter Control in the Custom & User Controls section was not announcing value changes to screen readers when users activated the "Increase" and "Decrease" buttons. While the counter value updated visually, Narrator remained silent, creating an accessibility barrier for users relying on assistiv…
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- —committedcopilot-swe-agent[bot]
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- —committedcopilot-swe-agent[bot]
- —committedNiels Laute
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- —committedNiels Laute
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- Jul 30, 2025changes requestedniels9001↗
- Jul 30, 2025mergedniels9001
- Jul 30, 2025closedniels9001
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Cite this flight: AgentRiders Flight Log, microsoft/WinUI-Gallery#1983, record updated Nov 3, 2026, https://agentriders.com/logs/microsoft/WinUI-Gallery/1983/
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