🎨 Palette: Accessibility and micro-UX improvements

[saynchowdhury]

💡 What:

Added several accessibility and micro-UX enhancements across the navigation, search, and filtering interfaces.

🎯 Why:

To improve the experience for screen reader users and provide better interactive state feedback, ensuring the interface is more semantic and intuitive.

♿ Accessibility Improvements:

• Navigation: Added aria-label and aria-expanded to the mobile menu toggle in Header.tsx. Implemented aria-current="page" for active links to help assistive technologies identify the current location.
• Search: Added an ariaLabel prop to the global SearchInput and applied an explicit aria-label to the search field in the Browse directory. Added a descriptive label to the "Clear search" icon button.
• Filters: Added aria-label="Close filters" to the filters sheet and implemented aria-label and aria-expanded attributes for region expansion toggles in the FilterPanel.
• Branding: Set the logo image alt attribute to an empty string (alt="") to prevent redundant screen reader announcements where the brand text "Foundery" immediately follows the icon.

🎨 Micro-UX:

• Synchronized active link styling in the mobile menu for better visual consistency with the desktop view.
• Improved state visibility for screen readers when toggling complex UI elements like hierarchical filters.

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