Clicking the terminal scrollbar does not scroll

[jasongrout]

1. Open a terminal
2. Generate enough content so that the scrollbar appears
3. Try to drag the scrollbar with the mouse

What happens: the scrollbar doesn't move, but you end up selecting the text you are dragging over.

What should happen: the scrollbar should be clickable and draggable

[ian-r-rose]

Unfortunately, it looks like the culprit is the screen-reader mode for xterm.js, though I don't know why that is. I don't see any issues about it on that repo.

I see a few options in the short-term:

1. Live with the bad scrollbar behavior.
2. Revert screen-reader mode.
3. Expose screen-reader mode to the user as a setting, defaulting to false (maybe?)

I am leaning towards three, as it would fix the issue for most users, keep screen-reader mode for those who need it, and can be implemented quickly.

[ian-r-rose]

cf. #6359

[jasongrout]

+1 for 3 if we can implement it for 1.0, otherwise option 2.

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