The out of process WinForms designer in Visual Studio 2022 isn’t accessible for us who use screen readers.
There’s an issue on GitHub regarding this but there’s no visible progress so I decided to try to create a workaround and I did.
Unfortunately it’s an addon for NVDA which limits the usage to those of us that uses NVDA, Non Visual Desktop Access.
You can find the GitHub repository here.
You can either build the addon yourself or download the latest version here.
How to use
Sometimes it just works but a lot of times it doesn’t and below is a way I get it up and running.
- Restart NVDA, I use Ctrl + Alt + N.
- Switch back to Visual Studio using Alt + Tab or your prefered way.
- Reload addons, I uuse the keyboard shortcut NVDA + Ctrl + F3.
- Switch to the Code Editor and back to the Designer, I use F7 and Shift + F7.
If you find an easier way please let me know so I can update the documentation.