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Screen reader announcements are queued and held back at startup

Screen reader announcements are queued and held quiet during startup, under the axScreenReader setting.

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Spoken announcements now go through a queue with a bounded buffer instead of firing immediately, and a quiet window suppresses them during startup until an explicit end point. This runs under the existing axScreenReader setting.

Details
  • The controller records when the first announcement was written and when the startup quiet window opened, and clears both on reset.
  • Whether accessibility output is enabled is now passed in as a function rather than read from a module-level global.
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startupQuietOpenedAtMs

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