This is the way these platform APIs are designed, you could theoretically make a...

lavabiopsy on Sept 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The operating system: should there be one? (2013) ...

This is the way these platform APIs are designed, you could theoretically make a screen reader that doesn't need that and just asks the app to recompute its state every time, but they don't currently work that way.