Search should display the number of results it finds #8764

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opened 2026-01-31 01:37:24 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @carlos-zamora on GitHub (Jun 2, 2020).

when the search term is not found, pressing enter on the find dialog announces nothing. It would be ideal if some message was announced to the effect that it was not found.

When it is found, NVDA reads the search term. I find that this behaviour is not that intuitive.

What does work well is that when escaping out of the find dialog, NVDA's review cursor is positioned at the starting position of the match for you to review around it.

Originally posted by @Neurrone in https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5421#issuecomment-632829133

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With regards to accessibility, UIA should at least somehow notify the user that no results were found.

With regards to general UX, this kind of notification should be revealed in/near the search box. It would be cool if we could say something like "4 of 42 Results" and change it to "No Results" if none are found. But at the very least, somehow displaying "No Results" would be very useful.

Though we could just implement the accessibility approach, if we managed to implement the second approach instead, we would basically get accessibility for free.

(another approach) I think some apps would do some kind of noise when no result was found (though I think that's a bit of an older approach, correct me if I'm wrong). That would be another approach that would "bridge the gap" and solve this problem too.

Originally created by @carlos-zamora on GitHub (Jun 2, 2020). when the search term is not found, pressing enter on the find dialog announces nothing. It would be ideal if some message was announced to the effect that it was not found. When it is found, NVDA reads the search term. I find that this behaviour is not that intuitive. What does work well is that when escaping out of the find dialog, NVDA's review cursor is positioned at the starting position of the match for you to review around it. _Originally posted by @Neurrone in https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5421#issuecomment-632829133_ ## Additional Details With regards to accessibility, UIA should at least somehow notify the user that no results were found. With regards to general UX, this kind of notification should be revealed in/near the search box. It would be cool if we could say something like "4 of 42 Results" and change it to "No Results" if none are found. But at the very least, somehow displaying "No Results" would be very useful. Though we _could_ just implement the accessibility approach, if we managed to implement the second approach instead, we would basically get accessibility for free. (another approach) I think some apps would do some kind of noise when no result was found (though I think that's a bit of an older approach, correct me if I'm wrong). That would be another approach that would "bridge the gap" and solve this problem too.
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Reference: starred/terminal#8764