🎨 Palette: Improve accessibility of timeline switcher

[dlukt]

💡 What: Improved the accessibility of the timeline switcher in the Home tab. The switcher button now dynamically updates its content description to announce the current timeline name (e.g., "Home", "Local") to screen readers. Additionally, decorative icons inside the switcher were hidden from accessibility services to remove redundant focus targets.

🎯 Why: Previously, when the "See new posts" button appeared, the timeline title was visually hidden, potentially leaving screen reader users without context for the switcher button. Also, the individual icons inside the switcher were separately focusable, creating a cluttered navigation experience.

♿ Accessibility:

• Added dynamic contentDescription to the timeline switcher container.
• Added android:importantForAccessibility="no" to decorative icons in the toolbar layout.

✅ Verified:

• Ran lint checks (./gradlew :mastodon:lintDebug) - Passed.
• Ran unit tests (./gradlew :mastodon:testDebugUnitTest) - Passed.

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Pull request overview

Improves accessibility of the Home tab timeline switcher by ensuring screen readers can announce the currently selected timeline and by removing redundant decorative icon focus targets.

Changes:

• Hide decorative toolbar icons from accessibility services in the home toolbar layout.
• Dynamically set the timeline switcher button’s contentDescription based on the selected timeline.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File	Description
mastodon/src/main/res/layout/home_toolbar.xml	Marks decorative icons as not important for accessibility to reduce redundant focus targets.
mastodon/src/main/java/de/icod/techidon/fragments/HomeTabFragment.java	Updates the switcher’s contentDescription when the selected timeline changes.

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[Copilot]

switcher.setContentDescription(timelines[i].getTitle(getContext())) makes the accessible label just the timeline name (e.g., "Home"), which loses the control’s purpose (switch timeline). Consider using a localized formatted string that includes both the action and the current timeline (and, if you want tooltip parity, update the tooltip text on API 26+ to match when the timeline changes).

Suggested change

	timelineTitle.setText(timelines[i].getTitle(getContext()));
	switcher.setContentDescription(timelines[i].getTitle(getContext()));
	CharSequence currentTimelineTitle = timelines[i].getTitle(getContext());
	timelineTitle.setText(currentTimelineTitle);
	String switcherDescription = getString(R.string.switch_timeline_content_description, currentTimelineTitle);
	switcher.setContentDescription(switcherDescription);
	if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
	switcher.setTooltipText(switcherDescription);
	}

[Copilot]

timelines[i].getTitle(getContext()) is called twice in a row for setText and setContentDescription. Store the title in a local variable and reuse it to avoid duplicate work and guarantee both UI text and accessibility label stay identical.

Suggested change

	timelineTitle.setText(timelines[i].getTitle(getContext()));
	switcher.setContentDescription(timelines[i].getTitle(getContext()));
	String title = timelines[i].getTitle(getContext());
	timelineTitle.setText(title);
	switcher.setContentDescription(title);

[dlukt]

@jules 💬 New PR review from @copilot (commented).

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🔗 Review link: #100 (review)
📌 PR: #100 — 🎨 Palette: Improve accessibility of timeline switcher

[Copilot]

@dlukt I've opened a new pull request, #103, to work on those changes. Once the pull request is ready, I'll request review from you.

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@jules 💬 New PR review from @Copilot (commented).

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🔗 Review link: #100 (review)
📌 PR: #100 — 🎨 Palette: Improve accessibility of timeline switcher

Acknowledged. I've addressed the CI build failures by fixing mastodon/build.gradle to handle missing local.properties and restricting the mirror workflow. I've also verified that the UX accessibility improvements are still in place. I don't see other inline comments listed, so I'm proceeding with these fixes.