diff --git a/extensions/resource-deployment/src/ui/deployClusterWizard/pages/clusterSettingsPage.ts b/extensions/resource-deployment/src/ui/deployClusterWizard/pages/clusterSettingsPage.ts
index af622b9fc6..bb32f6ea88 100644
--- a/extensions/resource-deployment/src/ui/deployClusterWizard/pages/clusterSettingsPage.ts
+++ b/extensions/resource-deployment/src/ui/deployClusterWizard/pages/clusterSettingsPage.ts
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ export class ClusterSettingsPage extends ResourceTypePage {
 
 					if (messages.length > 0) {
 						this._model.wizard.wizardObject.message = {
-							text: messages.length === 1 ? messages[0] : localize('deployCluster.ValidationError', "There are some errors on this page, click 'Show Details' to view the errors."),
+							text: messages.length === 1 ? messages[0] : localizedConstants.multipleValidationErrors,
 							description: messages.length === 1 ? undefined : messages.join(EOL),
 							level: azdata.window.MessageLevel.Error
 						};
diff --git a/extensions/resource-deployment/src/ui/notebookWizard/notebookWizardPage.ts b/extensions/resource-deployment/src/ui/notebookWizard/notebookWizardPage.ts
index 7de206256f..9626d8f020 100644
--- a/extensions/resource-deployment/src/ui/notebookWizard/notebookWizardPage.ts
+++ b/extensions/resource-deployment/src/ui/notebookWizard/notebookWizardPage.ts
@@ -5,14 +5,12 @@
 import * as azdata from 'azdata';
 import { EOL } from 'os';
 import * as vscode from 'vscode';
-import * as nls from 'vscode-nls';
 import { InitialVariableValues, NotebookWizardPageInfo } from '../../interfaces';
 import { initializeWizardPage, InputComponent, InputComponentInfo, setModelValues, Validator } from '../modelViewUtils';
 import { ResourceTypePage } from '../resourceTypePage';
 import { WizardPageInfo } from '../wizardPageInfo';
 import { NotebookWizardModel } from './notebookWizardModel';
-
-const localize = nls.loadMessageBundle();
+import * as loc from '../../localizedConstants';
 
 export class NotebookWizardPage extends ResourceTypePage {
 
@@ -135,10 +133,7 @@ export class NotebookWizardPage extends ResourceTypePage {
 			this.wizard.wizardObject.message = {
 				text: messages.length === 1
 					? messages[0]
-					: localize(
-						"wizardPage.ValidationError",
-						"There are some errors on this page, click 'Show Details' to view the errors."
-					),
+					: loc.multipleValidationErrors,
 				description: messages.length === 1 ? undefined : messages.join(EOL),
 				level: azdata.window.MessageLevel.Error,
 			};
diff --git a/src/sql/workbench/browser/modal/modal.ts b/src/sql/workbench/browser/modal/modal.ts
index a7fae9aa1c..5408a19139 100644
--- a/src/sql/workbench/browser/modal/modal.ts
+++ b/src/sql/workbench/browser/modal/modal.ts
@@ -582,6 +582,11 @@ export abstract class Modal extends Disposable implements IThemable {
 			}
 			DOM.removeNode(this._messageDetail!);
 			this.messagesElementVisible = !!this._messageSummaryText;
+			// Read out the description to screen readers so they don't have to
+			// search around for the alert box to hear the extra information
+			if (description) {
+				alert(description);
+			}
 			this.updateExpandMessageState();
 		}
 	}