🎨 Palette: Progressive character limit feedback & form a11y#154
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- Updates alternativeThought counter to change color at 80% and 90% - Adds sr-only role="status" warnings for approaching/reached limit - Removes redundant aria-describedby from automaticThought - Records learnings in palette journal Co-authored-by: Sczitzo <46541128+Sczitzo@users.noreply.github.com>
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| {alternativeThought.length >= 240 && alternativeThought.length < 300 && ( | ||
| <div role="status" className="sr-only">Approaching character limit</div> | ||
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When the character count crosses 240 or 300, this inserts a new role="status" node that already contains the full message. Live regions are only reliably announced when text changes inside an existing monitored region, so screen-reader users may never hear the warning in the exact threshold-crossing scenarios this change is meant to support. Render a single sr-only status region unconditionally and update its contents as the count moves between normal/approaching/reached states.
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💡 What:
Added progressive visual feedback to the character counter in the
ResponseForm(turns orange at 80% capacity, red at 90%). Added accessible screen reader warnings using staticrole="status"elements. Removed a redundantaria-describedbyattribute from theautomaticThoughttextarea.🎯 Why:
To prevent user frustration by visually warning them before they hit a character limit, and to provide this same warning correctly to screen reader users without noisy, repetitive keystroke announcements. Also fixes a common accessibility bug where explanatory text inside a label is read twice due to an unnecessary
aria-describedby.📸 Before/After:
Before: Gray counter
0 / 300.automaticThoughtread twice.After: Counter turns orange at
240 / 300and red at270 / 300. Screen reader cleanly announces "Approaching character limit" once when crossing the 240 threshold.♿ Accessibility:
aria-liveregions (which spam on every keystroke) with conditionally rendered staticrole="status"elements.aria-describedbypointing to an element already contained within the<label>.PR created automatically by Jules for task 6397700833261173414 started by @Sczitzo