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Search should display the number of results it finds #6319

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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 #5421 (comment)

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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.

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    A11yMASAccessibility trackingA11ySev3Accessibility trackingA11yTTValidatedYet another label for the a11y folks. They want so many. So so many.A11yWCAGAccessibility trackingArea-AccessibilityIssues related to accessibilityArea-UserInterfaceIssues pertaining to the user interface of the Console or TerminalDisability-BlindAccessibility trackingHCL-E+DAccessibility trackingHCL-WindowsTerminalAccessibility trackingIn-PRThis issue has a related PRInclusionBacklogAccessibility trackingInclusionBacklog-Windows TerminalWin32Accessibility trackingIssue-FeatureComplex enough to require an in depth planning process and actual budgeted, scheduled work.Needs-Tag-FixDoesn't match tag requirementsProduct-TerminalThe new Windows Terminal.WindowsTerminal_Win32

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