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💡 What: Added keyboard accessibility and screen reader support to the ImageUploader component interactive elements. Specifically added explicit focus-visible ring states, aria-label for the "Remove image" icon button, and aria-hidden attributes to non-informative elements.

🎯 Why: To improve keyboard navigation and screen reader support for a critical component. The "remove image" button lacked an explicit label and the default focus ring for "Select file" and "Remove image" was inconsistent or potentially clipping without offsets.

📸 Before/After:
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Added clear blue and red focus rings around the respective buttons.

Accessibility:

  • Added focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-offset-2 to buttons.
  • Added aria-label={t('removeImage')} to the X icon button.
  • Added aria-hidden="true" to the X icon itself.
  • Added tabIndex={-1} and aria-hidden="true" to the visually hidden input[type="file"].

PR created automatically by Jules for task 1093272107688407865 started by @MacTechIN

Adds explicit focus rings with offsets to the 'Select File' and 'Remove Image' buttons.
Also adds screen reader support to the icon-only 'Remove Image' button and makes the hidden file input fully ignored.

Co-authored-by: MacTechIN <63564804+MacTechIN@users.noreply.github.com>
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This pull request improves accessibility and focus states for the ImageUploader component by adding explicit focus-visible ring styles, aria-label attributes, and hiding decorative icons from screen readers. It also documents these learnings in a palette markdown file. Feedback was provided regarding the redundant addition of tabIndex and aria-hidden attributes to the file input element, which is already hidden via Tailwind's hidden class.

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The input element already has the class hidden, which applies display: none in Tailwind CSS. Elements with display: none are automatically removed from the accessibility tree and are not focusable by keyboard navigation. Therefore, adding tabIndex={-1} and `aria-hidden=

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