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🎨 Palette: Improve screen reader navigation and reduce noise in camera layout#44

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🎨 Palette: Improve screen reader navigation and reduce noise in camera layout#44
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💡 What:

  • Added accessibilityHeading="true" to the main app title (@id/textView).
  • Added importantForAccessibility="no" to the camera preview surface (@id/view_finder).

🎯 Why:

  • Headings provide critical structural landmarks for screen reader users, allowing them to quickly jump through the UI rather than swiping sequentially through every element.
  • The camera surface view announces as "Unlabeled" and provides no context to visually impaired users. Hiding it reduces noise and improves the overall experience when opening the app.

♿ Accessibility:

  • Improves heading navigation support for TalkBack.
  • Reduces cognitive load and unnecessary announcements by hiding purely visual/decorative views from the accessibility tree.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 13761189702996126001 started by @manupawickramasinghe

- Added `android:accessibilityHeading="true"` to the app title TextView in `fragment_camera.xml`. This allows screen reader users (TalkBack) to use heading navigation to quickly jump to the top of the settings panel.
- Added `android:importantForAccessibility="no"` to `AutoFitSurfaceView` (`@id/view_finder`). The camera preview provides no actionable information to screen reader users and simply announces as "Unlabeled". Hiding it reduces noise and improves the navigation flow.

Co-authored-by: manupawickramasinghe <73810867+manupawickramasinghe@users.noreply.github.com>
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