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VS Code accessibility updates!

Clear, format, and save opt-in audio cues

When audioCues.clear is enabled, a sound indicates that the terminal, a notification, or the chat responses have been cleared.
In files and notebooks, audioCues.save and audioCues.format can be set to play on user gesture or always for each event. While disabled, an ARIA alert is used instead and can be customized with accessibility.alert.format and accessibility.alert.save.

Windows magnifier synced

The windows magnifier now follows the cursor in VS Code properly.

Accessible View improvements

By default, a user's cursor is positioned at the bottom of the terminal Accessible View; to preserve the position instead, you can set terminal.integrated.accessibleViewPreserveCursorPosition to true.
The Accessible View can be hidden with accessibility.hideAccessibleView, useful if sharing one's screen with an audience of sighted users.
The Accessible View now closes when a user starts typing and focuses the prior element for a smoother work flow.

Text editor in window title focused view

Last iteration, we added a ${focusedView} variable to window.title. We now also indicate when a Text Editor is focused.

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