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🎨 Palette: Add accessible progressive character limit feedback#164

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💡 What: Added dynamic character limit counter for the alternative thought textarea that turns orange when approaching the limit (80%) and red when very close (90%) or at the limit.
🎯 Why: A static counter forces users to do mental math. The color changes give immediate visual cues without needing to constantly check the numbers, lowering cognitive load.
📸 Before/After: Visuals provided in verification steps show the transition through gray -> orange -> red as the limit is reached.
♿ Accessibility: Instead of using aria-live on the counter numbers (which spams screen readers on every keystroke), the implementation conditionally mounts visually hidden elements with role="status" at specific thresholds (80%, 90%, 100%) providing clean, infrequent warnings only when necessary.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 13102679281359739658 started by @Sczitzo

Replaces the static character counter for the 'alternativeThought' textarea with a dynamic counter. The counter uses progressive visual feedback (turning orange at 80% and red at 90%) and relies on static, conditionally rendered, visually hidden 'role=\"status\"' elements instead of a noisy 'aria-live' dynamic string update for screen readers.

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