Changes

These changes are the start of improvements to screen reader accessibility.

Screen reader users will notice the following enhancements:

• Landmarks have been added.
• Semantics have been added to the addon list.
• More icons have been assigned labels or alt text.
• Groups of related content and important region markers have been labeled.

Let me know if I missed anything.

Commit summary

• Initial changes (1-5)
  • 🏷️ Add labels to icons — adds either alt text or tooltips to several graphics.
  • 🏳️ Label groups and landmarks — adds landmarks to the banner, navigation, and main content, and adds ARIA attributes to blocks of content like addon bodies, addon group separators, and info boxes.
  • 🫧 Popup updates — applies the above changes to the extension's popup.
  • 🔖 Label blocks and inputs — adds ARIA labels to addon checkboxes/inputs, setting description tooltip containers, and "new features" message boxes.
  • 📂 Semantics in addon list — turns some elements in the addon listing page into headings.
• Revisions since pull request open (6-10)
  • 🔘 Fix addon switch description — corrects a mistake in a previous change that added descriptions to addon toggle switches.
  • 📍 Change addon name labels to level 3 headings — changes addon names to headings as well.
  • 🖊️ Label nested search landmark — changes the spoken label of the addon search bar landmark for clarification, plus removes searchMsg.
  • 🔗 Do not use aria-label on inputs — adds a label to addon settings groups, links inputs to setting label elements, and renames some strings.
  • 🎛️ Correct location of addon settings group — moves the label for addon setting groups to the block that contains all the settings. Previously, it was used on the settings themselves by mistake.

Tests

Tested with:

• Edge 141
• Windows Narrator