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🎨 Palette: UX Accessibility Improvements for Material Symbols and Buttons#77

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💡 What:

  • Added aria-hidden="true" to all decorative Material Symbols icons to prevent screen readers from reading out raw ligatures.
  • Added explicit aria-labels to icon-only interactive elements (such as the "Back to Home" link, "Deploy" button, "Copy" and "Download" buttons).
  • Formatted the HTML files for consistency using Prettier.
  • Created the .jules/palette.md journal and logged the a11y learning about structural icon elements.

🎯 Why:

  • Prior to this, screen readers would read aloud the raw ligature text (e.g., "all inclusive", "cloud upload") out of context for visual-only layout items.
  • Icon-only interactive buttons lacked accessible names, meaning users relying on screen readers wouldn't know their purpose.

♿ Accessibility:

  • Solves a major compliance issue by ensuring icons are either explicitly labeled on parent elements or hidden from assistive technology when purely decorative.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 2205988244158153025 started by @Bhishaj9

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- Adds `aria-hidden="true"` to `<span class="material-symbols-outlined">` elements across all HTML templates to prevent screen readers from announcing raw ligatures.
- Adds appropriate `aria-label`s to purely icon-based buttons (Deploy, Copy, Download, Back) to ensure screen reader accessibility.
- Creates `.jules/palette.md` to log critical UX/a11y learnings regarding Material Symbols.

Co-authored-by: Bhishaj9 <144550237+Bhishaj9@users.noreply.github.com>
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