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2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
AccessibilityArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.281,
ImprovementsSection of the release
Unclear The finding does not say what the row-prefix marker looks like or how a screen reader reads it out.
What
In screen-reader mode, the setting that shapes Claude Code's output for software that reads the screen aloud, quoted text (a blockquote) is handled differently:
blockquote text no longer starts with a spoken "blockquote: " label.
The whole quoted text is marked for a row-prefix marker instead, reported through a new rowPrefixRanges value.
When a long line wraps onto several screen rows, the prefix is repeated on every wrapped row, as long as at least 2 columns of width remain.
The prefix also appears on empty lines inside the quote.
Why
Each row of a quote now carries its own marker, so a screen-reader user can tell a wrapped or blank row still belongs to the quote. The single label at the start is gone.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtThe finding does not say what the row-prefix marker looks like or how a screen reader reads it out.
Anthropic's release notes agreeImproved screen-reader output in /mcp: a disabled server is read as "off" instead of "pending"
