WebAIM accessibility fixes

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Summary

Addresses a number of issues from the WebAIM WAVE report.

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Claude Sonnet 5 fixed these. Some of them are problems with Blockly itself not setting the aria attribute properly and patched from within flock.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Accessibility Improvements
  • Added accessible labels to comment fields and search inputs.
  • Improved labeling for toolbox search controls, including after toolbox updates.
  • Enhanced screen reader support for the block toolbar by correctly indicating when it is hidden or visible.

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Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 4451a5c and 6b93d80.

📒 Files selected for processing (3)

• main/blocklyinit.js
• main/translation.js
• ui/contextmenu.js

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds localized ARIA labels to workspace search, comment, and toolbox search controls. It also updates block toolbar aria-hidden state during initialization, showing, and hiding.

Changes

Accessibility improvements

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Localized control labels locale/en.js, main/translation.js, main/blocklyinit.js	Adds the English comment text label and applies localized ARIA labels to workspace search, comment, and toolbox search controls, including rebuilt toolbox controls.
Toolbar accessibility state ui/contextmenu.js	Sets the block toolbar as hidden from assistive technologies until it is shown, then restores the hidden state when it is hidden again.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4451a

The PR improves accessibility but still leaves some controls with missing or stale accessible labels and allows hidden toolbar buttons to receive keyboard focus. These bounded issues can make parts of the interface confusing or inaccessible, so the PR is not merge-ready until they are fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Locale as locale/en.js
  participant Translation as main/translation.js
  participant BlocklyInit as main/blocklyinit.js
  participant Controls as Blockly controls
  Locale->>Translation: provide localized label
  Translation->>Controls: set workspace search aria-label
  BlocklyInit->>Controls: label comment and toolbox search controls
  BlocklyInit->>Controls: reapply toolbox label after rebuild

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Possibly related PRs

• flipcomputing/flock#655: Shares accessibility changes for workspace search labeling and translation logic.
• flipcomputing/flock#682: Shares accessibility changes for the block toolbar.
• flipcomputing/flock#744: Shares accessibility and toolbar labeling changes.

Suggested reviewers: tracygardner, claude

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the pull request's main change: fixing WebAIM accessibility issues.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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Inline comments:
In `@main/blocklyinit.js`:
- Around line 761-782: Update the comment-textarea labeling flow around
labelCommentTextarea so existing textarea elements are refreshed when the
language changes, not only during initial scans or mutation handling. Expose a
refresh callback for the current workspace and invoke it from setLanguage in
translation.js, preserving labeling for dynamically added textareas and ensuring
comment_text_label is reapplied to mounted elements.

In `@main/translation.js`:
- Line 124: Update setLanguage() to refresh all mobile workspace-search
controls, not only window.flockWorkspaceSearch.inputElement: use a refresh
method exposed by initializeWorkspace(), ensuring wsMobileInput receives an
accessible label and wsMobilePrev, wsMobileNext, and wsMobileClose receive
translated labels after locale changes.

In `@ui/contextmenu.js`:
- Line 664: Update the toolbar visibility lifecycle around blockToolbar so
hidden toolbar controls cannot receive focus: set the toolbar’s inert state when
applying aria-hidden="true", and clear it when the toolbar is shown. Keep the
existing visibility behavior unchanged.

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📥 Commits

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📒 Files selected for processing (4)

• locale/en.js
• main/blocklyinit.js
• main/translation.js
• ui/contextmenu.js