Accessibility: when filtering the window list, the currently active thumbnail is only announced when focus changes

[alzwded]

When filtering the list, the highlighted window thumbnail "button" is only announced when focus changes.

E.g.:

• open up a whole bunch of notepads
• make sure some other window has focus, e.g. This PC
• type n o t e; the screen reader announces a notepad window is now selected after n, then silence

It should be announced after you're done typing.

The problem is, I can't figure out a way to get this to actually work, and googling (or binging?) anything Microsoft related is a lost cause.

If anyone knows how to issue an arbitrary accessibility (particularily voiced) announcement or how to force re-focus a control, do let me know here. I can work out how to get the announcement to work at the correct moment from there. I don't want to pull in libespeak or something ridiculous like that, this just needs to doubly confirm "your control focus has changed since 1s ago, in case you've missed it"