Character counts around the app are not intuitive for screen readers

(#2631) Bug Fixed accessibility desktop

Observed behaviour

No feedback on exceeding the limit. Traversing to the number just speaks it with no associated context.

Reproduction steps

  1. Go to a text field with a character count
  2. Type, exceed the limit, or simply traverse to it

Build information

canary build 731 (1c756a2), Electron 41.2.2, macOS 26.4.0 (arm64), desktop canary 0.0.205, Electron 41.2.2, Chrome 146.0.7680.188, Node 24.14.1, locale en-GB

Platform

macOS

Details

Expected behaviour Feedback when the character limit is reached, a suitable tooltip-accessible response regarding approaching the limit, etc.
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  1. Rex changed the status from Needs triage to Fixed

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