Thanks for the suggestion. That had occurred to me, but I had no luck on my initial tests with that approach, which brought me here for help. After playing around with it a little more since my original post, I've figured out that the StaticText class doesn't accept focus by default. And aside from the AcceptsFocus method for windows, including the StaticText class, there doesn't seem to be any other way of modifying whether or not the widget can get focus. The only possible lead I got was explicitly setting focus to a different object, but everything is still read out loud until the focus is set. For example, if I have multiple StaticText objects and I set focus to a particular one, all the texts will be read, and then the one that was focused is read a second time.
I'd greatly appreciate any guidance from this point, as this has got me seriously stumped.
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