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🎨 Palette: Add progressive feedback to character counter#157

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💡 What: Added progressive visual feedback and accessible screen reader warnings to the character limit counter on the participant ResponseForm.
🎯 Why: When users approach the 300 character limit on the 'Alternative Thought' field, providing early visual feedback (at 240 chars) helps them adjust their response proactively. For screen reader users, adding aria-live to a dynamic counter creates annoying noise on every keystroke. Using statically rendered visually hidden role="status" elements at the 80% and 100% thresholds allows them to be notified gracefully without the noise.
📸 Before/After: The counter was a static gray 0 / 300. It now turns orange and bold at 240 characters, and red at 300 characters.
♿ Accessibility: Improved screen reader experience for character limits by relying on static boundary nodes rather than noisy aria-live counters.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 3801053070424468329 started by @Sczitzo

- Updates the ResponseForm character limit counter to change colors at 80% (orange) and 100% (red).
- Adds strictly static accessible screen reader warnings using `role="status"` to announce limits without relying on noisy `aria-live` attributes.
- Adds related learning to `.Jules/palette.md`.

Co-authored-by: Sczitzo <46541128+Sczitzo@users.noreply.github.com>
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