Update:

I closed VoiceMeeter and the narrator no longer freezes the game. If I start up VoiceMeeter while the game is already on and try to toggle the narrator, the game freezes again. I'm not sure why this is happening, but I have a guess it might be related to MC-254669 or MC-247421
I get "Failed to get OpenAL attributes" spammed in the log if I have a certain sound device selected in the game (with VoiceMeeter on). MC-247421 talks about this being logged repeatedly (albeit I'm not sure if it's under the same conditions).

Also, if you exit VoiceMeeter while the game is frozen, the game unfreezes and proceeds as normal.

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When enabling the narrator either through Ctrl+B or in the accessibility options page, the game freezes and crashes with exit code -805306369.

The game refuses to load past a certain point after restarting.

I am able to manually fix it by changing the narrator option in options.txt from 1 to 0.

See the attached video.

I have seen the bug report page for that exit code (https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-23484), but I don't believe any of what the moderator note says there applies here.

• The JVM arguments are unchanged from vanilla
• No resource pack
• Certain I have no malware
• I upped the memory to 4GB and then to 8GB and it still happens

Additionally the output doesn't seem to say anything out of the ordinary.

And for good measure I restarted my computer but with the same result.