I'll leave it open in case others have anything to say. This app module also provides routines to announce certain toast notifications in Windows 8/8.1, potentially useful in Windows 10 when announcing notifications from the new Action Center. Technical: You need to modify how search results are announced by editing Windows Explorer app module (explorer.py). This requires some careful aproach to handle this case unless NVDA core already provides this. We cannot reject the proposal outright, as there are times when it is desirable to announce that no search results are found.in fact, experience shows that screen review should be used as last resort, to navigate the screen content and for understanding layout purposes. One should not rely too much on screen review, as screen review announces what's on screen, which may not be useful in some cases (such as newer controls where screen review fails).Thus this solution is applicable on Windows 7 and earlier (XP, Vista, 7) unless there is a way to detect that Windows Search did in fact return some results or none. This isn't the case for Windows 8 and 8.1 (will need to test it under Windows 10 tech preview). The original poster says this approach is universal.It also suffers from localization issues - different language packs for Windows may present this box differently (differing spelling, terms used, translations, etc.).This is quite verbose, and users will ask how come NVDA is so verbose when other screen readers are not. The above approach will not work if the change event is fired every time someone modifies the search term, whether new terms are added or characters are deleted.If these status messages use name change or other change events and if it can be identified (unique window class name, control ID, etc.), then it might be possible to implement this (and this cannot be done).This is not desirable in all applications, and it causes NVDA's event queue to be flooded with change events that it should not accept. Hmmm, someone may ask for all status objects to be announced automatically. Searching., Search Complete and No items match your search should be reported automatically eliminating the requirement of manually checking the status through screen review.

Proposal - The status of the Start Menu search, i.e.

Comment 1 by nvdakor (in reply to comment description) on 18:19

No items match your search windows 10