How to Enable or Disable Math Reading for Narrator in Windows 11

Option One

Turn On or Off Math Reading for Narrator in Settings

1. Open Settings⚙️ by pressing the Win+I keys on your keyboard.
2. Click on Accessibility on the left side of the window, and then click on Narrator on the right side.

   

3. Open Narrator settings (Win+Ctrl+N)​
4. Find the Math section, and click on Math reading.

   

5. Turn the Enable math reading setting on or off based on what you want.
6. You can now close the Settings⚙️ window.

Option Two

1. Press Win+R
2. Type regedit and press Enter.
3. Navigate to:

   🗝️Registry

   Copy

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER
     └─ Software
         └─ Microsoft
             └─ Narrator
                 └─ NoRoam

If the Narrator key doesn’t exist:

• Right-click Microsoft
• Select New › Key
• Name it Narrator

Right-click an empty space in the right pane, select New, and choose DWORD (32-bit) Value.

Name the value:

MathReadingEnabled

Double-click MathReadingEnabled.

Set Value data to:

1

Click OK.

Summary

This tutorial showed you how to control the math reading feature in Narrator using either the Windows Settings app or the registry.

Back up first. The registry method has you create keys and values in Registry Editor, and it gives no warning if you change the wrong item. Before you start, create a restore point, or export the registry from Registry Editor with File › Export. If something goes wrong, you can then return to the earlier state.

Restart Narrator afterward. A registry change does not always apply to a Narrator session that is already running. After you finish, close Narrator and start it again, or sign out of Windows and sign back in.

1. Create the restore point or registry export described above.
2. Open Registry Editor and go to the location given in this method.
3. To turn math reading on, set the MathReadingEnabled value to 1. If the key or value does not exist yet, create it first. You should now see the value listed with the data 1.
4. To turn math reading off, set MathReadingEnabled to 0. Alternatively, delete the value, which returns Narrator to its default behavior.
5. Close Registry Editor.
6. Press Win+Ctrl+Enter to turn Narrator off, then press it again to turn Narrator back on. Signing out and back in also works.

That’s it. Narrator now follows the value you set: it reads equations as grouped expressions with 1, and it reverts to its previous behavior with 0 or when the value is deleted.