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New settings to hold and rewrite screen-reader announcements

Two environment variables control holding screen-reader announcements, for up to 10 seconds, and rewriting held ones, which is off by default

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Claude Code now reads two environment variables (settings you set in your shell before starting it) that affect screen-reader announcements, the messages a screen reader speaks aloud:

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Screen-reader users can opt in to this behaviour and choose how long announcements are held.

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