Desktop app (Windows): session info panel is read after messages, which slows screen reader users down

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Activity 0 comments · opened Oct 14, 2026

I'm a blind user on Windows 10 with NVDA, using the Code tab of the Claude desktop app.

Since a recent update, the session info panel (Environment, Context, Connectors, Outputs, each with a "Reorder" button) comes right after the conversation in NVDA's reading order. To reach Claude's latest reply, or to get back to the message box, I now have to arrow or tab through all of those headings and Reorder buttons after every message. Before this update the panel wasn't in that spot.

I also once couldn't find a reply at all when it appeared after a "next step" question box.

Expected: the conversation and the message box come first in reading order, or there's a landmark or shortcut that skips the panel, or a setting to hide it.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open a Code session in the desktop app with NVDA running.
  2. Send a message and wait for the reply.
  3. Navigate down from the reply toward the message box. The panel's headings and Reorder buttons come in between.

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