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so in Windows 11 (23H2), File Explorer gives you feedback on searching with #NVDA. I opened a folder on my NAS, hit f3 and typed something in, and got a couple of files. i was in a different explorer window when it announced the search was complete and it had found 2 files. How does it send that to the screen reader? it isn't a typical notification, but I wasn't looking at the window in question.
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in reply to Sean Randall

Was it an alert? Those can be received system-wide. Failing that, given that it was on Windows 11, it was probably a UIA notification but the exact API use for those escapes me at the moment.