Screen Readers are unable to track cursor in textarea

[Flameborn]

I'm submitting a...

• Bug report
• Feature request

Reproduction steps

1. Type text into a MDE textarea, possibly with new lines.
2. While any screen reader is on, such as NVDA for Windows, VoiceOver on Mac or iOS, use the arrow keys to navigate around.

Result: The textarea is often detected as being empty, characters are not announced while the cursor moves.

Expected result: lines and characters are announced as the cursor moves.

Version information

Browser type and version: any
SimpleMDE version: any

[CWharton]

This might be a codemirror issue. Will have to look into it.