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fix(settings): name the settings sidebar pages for VoiceOver - #26

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The Settings sidebar page buttons had a label made of an SF Symbol plus the page name. An accessibility tree dump showed them as bare buttons, and a review had already flagged VoiceOver reading out symbol names. Each button now uses the page name as its accessibility label and hides the symbol. The help text, the selected trait and the keyboard behavior are unchanged.

Done when: each sidebar button's accessibility label is its page name.

Verify: Swift tests pass. A new guard in Tests/ReleaseTests/test_accessibility_labels.py fails without the label and passes with it. I haven't checked it with VoiceOver in the running app.

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    • Settings sidebar buttons now provide page names to assistive technologies, and decorative page icons are omitted from accessibility navigation. This makes it easier for people using screen readers to identify and navigate between settings pages. The selected-page indication remains unchanged, so the current selection continues to be conveyed as before.

Sidebar buttons now expose the page name as their accessibility label and hide the symbol.
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The settings sidebar now hides page-symbol images from accessibility and gives each page button a label based on its page name. A test checks for the explicit label.

Changes: Settings Sidebar Accessibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sidebar labels and test
Sources/DilatedUI/Settings/SettingsWindow.swift, Tests/ReleaseTests/test_accessibility_labels.py
The sidebar hides page-symbol images from accessibility and labels each page button with its page name. A test checks for .accessibilityLabel(item.rawValue).

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The accessibility behavior is implemented, but a small test follow-up is needed to protect the symbol-hiding behavior from regression.

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Nitpick comments: 1
Tests/ReleaseTests/test_accessibility_labels.py: 1

29-39: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert the symbol-hiding modifier in the sidebar test.

test_settings_sidebar_buttons_are_named_by_page checks only the .accessibilityLabel(item.rawValue) literal. The PR also hides each sidebar symbol from VoiceOver. The test does not detect removal of that modifier. A regression that exposes the symbol names to VoiceOver would leave this test passing.

The changed sidebar range contains both modifiers. The Image with .accessibilityHidden(true) sits inside the button label, before the .accessibilityLabel(item.rawValue) call and before .onMoveCommand. An assertion that the slice also contains .accessibilityHidden(true) would cover this behavior.

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         self.assertIn(
             ".accessibilityLabel(item.rawValue)",
             text[start:end],
             "Settings sidebar buttons must expose the page name as their "
             "accessibility label",
         )
+        self.assertIn(
+            "Image(systemName: item.symbol).frame(width: 18).accessibilityHidden(true)",
+            text[start:end],
+            "Settings sidebar symbols must be hidden from the accessibility hierarchy",
+        )
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Review comment at @Tests/ReleaseTests/test_accessibility_labels.py around lines
29 - 39:
Update test_settings_sidebar_buttons_are_named_by_page to also assert that the
sidebar range from ForEach(SettingsPage.allCases) to .onMoveCommand contains the
symbol-hiding modifier .accessibilityHidden(true), so the test catches
regressions that expose sidebar symbols to VoiceOver.

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Review comments at @Tests/ReleaseTests/test_accessibility_labels.py:
- Around line 29-39: Update test_settings_sidebar_buttons_are_named_by_page to
also assert that the sidebar range from ForEach(SettingsPage.allCases) to
.onMoveCommand contains the symbol-hiding modifier .accessibilityHidden(true),
so the test catches regressions that expose sidebar symbols to VoiceOver.

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scttbnsn merged commit 1d9ef8b into dev/m2 Oct 30, 2026
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The coverage follow-up is merged in #110 (f2d4bf5). A mounted Settings view now checks that every named sidebar button keeps its symbol hidden from accessibility. Removing the hiding modifier makes the test fail. This adds behavioral coverage without broadening the source-text guard.

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