Issue #154 (Accessibility Help Menu)04/02/25
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If you need to enable any accessibility features in VS Code, the most common way to find accessibility-related settings is to simply search for the word "accessible" or "accessibility" in your settings. From there you can find a number of different features.
In addition, if you want some quick assistance with accessibility, you can open the Accessibility Help menu, which is available in different contexts. You can open this by running the command "Open Accessibility Help" in the command palette.
This help menu is also accessible via ALT/OPT+F1 (although I didn't find that shortcut worked on my Mac machine). If you open the menu while in the editor, or in many other contexts in VS Code, you'll see something like what's shown in the screenshot below.
As you can see, it's not so much a "menu" but more of an instruction document, with some accessibility-related keyboard shortcuts described. It's also not extremely readable due to the way it's formatted. In the VS Code docs, they display the menu in a screenshot in a more readable format).
The one shown above is the basic menu that appears in most contexts, but you'll notice there's a different menu shown when you run the command inside the terminal or inside the chat panel. Here's the one for the terminal:
And here's the one for the chat panel (i.e. for using GitHub Copilot):
There's also a different menu for inline chat view and for notebooks, so you can try those out if needed. If you find these menus to be difficult to read, you can actually copy and paste their text content into another document, so you can read the instructions more easily.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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Ariana — An IDE extension (available for VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf) to help you understand what happens during runtime, without the need to use print(), console.log() or breakpoints, with support for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python.
Prompt Octopus — A VS Code that allows you to do LLM evaluations right in your codebase by letting you highlight your prompt, select models, and compare their responses.
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Git Worktree Manager — A VS Code extension that enables effortless multi-workspace management and fast Git project cloning across directories
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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Oscura — This is described as an "unapologetically dark and minimal theme", and I can see why. It's different from a lot of dark themes that tend to favor a lot of purples and similar shades.
The syntax highlighting is nice, with good contrast (which works well with my font choice) and there's an alternate version called "Midnight", which has a slightly darker background. The one shown above is the default "dark" version.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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Best of the Rest
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Sweep AI — An AI coding assistant built for JetBrains IDEs, combining JetBrains-native UX with the latest AI models and tools to give you the best possible coding experience.
Get Coding Help From Gemini Code Assist – Now for Free — In case you missed it, from the Google Developers blog, they've announced the public preview of Gemini Code Assist for individuals, a free version of their AI-coding assistant.
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Oscura Vim — This is a Vim port of the VS Code theme featured above. This one has two themes in the plugin, one regular and one "Oscura Dusk", the latter has a lighter background and better contrast.
If you have any link suggestions, including a tool, article, or other resource related to VS Code or another IDE, you can hit reply, send it via DM on X, or via chat on Bluesky.
That's it for this issue.
Happy VS Coding!
Louis
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@LouisLazaris
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