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@cubic That's exactly what I was talking about, though good to know it covers those switches as well and not just the FN key hotkeys. If you spawn a narrator.exe process you'll have that feature with any screen reader running.

@pitermach The process that does this is "FnHotkeyUtility.exe". And, yep, it seems to be a simple narrator.exe check. I renamed a random application to narrator.exe, and that was enough to convince it Narrator is running, so not all that hard.

@pitermach Awesome ideas. I took the much less optimistic one of trying to contact them and tell them about it, which is leading me through the rabbit holes of AI chat bots, irrelevant departments about servicing my laptops or the community forum.

Just found out that Lenovo laptops have a very interesting accessibility feature. If Narrator is enabled, pressing FN+one of the function keys will actually announce what happened, i.e. Microphone muted, microphone unmuted, using your default SAPI 5 voice. The state of the FN lock feature will be announced as well. A real shame pretty much nobody will know this, since we don't actually use Narrator, and with NVDA or Jaws, the feature isn't triggered.