Turn Off or On Narrator Interaction Hints for Buttons and Controls

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How to turn off or on Narrator Interaction Hints for Buttons and Controls in Windows 10

As you may already know, Narrator is a screen-reading app built into Windows 10. Narrator lets users with vision issues to use PC and complete common tasks. It is possible to disable interaction hints that Narrator announces for buttons and other controls. We will review how it can be done with either Settings, or a Registry tweak.

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Microsoft describes the Narrator feature as follows:

Narrator lets you use your PC without a display or mouse to complete common tasks if you’re blind or have low vision. It reads and interacts with things on the screen, like text and buttons. Use Narrator to read and write email, browse the Internet, and work with documents.
Specific commands let you navigate Windows, the web, and apps, as well as get info about the area of the PC you're in. Navigation is available using headings, links, landmarks, and more. You can read text (including punctuation) by page, paragraph, line, word, and character as well as determine characteristics like font and text color. Efficiently review tables with row and column navigation.
Narrator also has a navigation and reading mode called Scan Mode. Use it to get around Windows 10 using just the up and down arrows on your keyboard. You can also use a braille display to navigate your PC and read text.

Windows 10 allows to customize options for Narrator. You can change its keyboard shortcuts, personalize Narrator's voice, enable Caps Lock warnings, and more. You can choose the voice for Narrator, adjust the speaking rate, pitch, and volume.

The Narrator supports Scan mode that lets you navigate apps, email, and webpages using the arrow keys. You’ll also be able to use common keyboard shortcuts to read text and jump directly to headings, links, tables, and landmarks.

To launch certain Narrator features, you can use its keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard shortcuts include a special modifier key, which is set to both Caps Lock and Insert by default. You can change the modifier keys.

Also, you can turn on special Lock Mode for the modifier key of Narrator. When it is enabled, you do not have to press the Narrator key to launch a Narrator feature.

Narrator comes with support for reading characters phonetically. That is, reading out “a Alfa, b Bravo, c Charlie” while navigating “abc” by character.

By default, Narrator announces how to interact with controls like buttons. Here is how to disable these announcements. This feature is enabled by default.

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To Turn Off Narrator Interaction Hints for Buttons and Controls,

Turn Off or On Narrator Interaction Hints for Buttons and Controls in Registry

To Turn Off Narrator Interaction Hints for Buttons and Controls,

Open the Settings app.
Go to Ease of Access -> Narrator.
On the right, enable Narrator if required.
Scroll down to the Change what you hear when reading and interacting section.
Turn off (uncheck) the option 'Hear hints on how to interact with buttons and controls' on the right side.

You are done. You can turn on (re-enable) this option at any moment of time.

Alternatively, you can apply a Registry tweak.