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This pull request addresses silent self-dismissing menus and un-animated state changes that hinder accessibility.

💡 What:

  1. AppDiagnosticsView.swift now animates the "Copied" text state gracefully and supports dynamic VoiceOver announcements.
  2. The selection menu (TerminalSelectionMenuView inside TerminalSelection.swift) posts standard VoiceOver success announcements when users interact with the Copy, Copy All, and Paste buttons since the menu simply hides itself natively without auditory confirmation.
  3. Expanded .Jules/palette.md to document the necessity of .announcement feedback on self-dismissing menus for VoiceOver compatibility.

🎯 Why:

Users expect visual and auditory confirmation for asynchronous actions like copying to the clipboard. The abrupt snap-in changes of standard SwiftUI buttons lacking animations or standard UIKit views dismissing silently create uncertainty for all users, but particularly screen reader users.

♿ Accessibility:

  • AppDiagnosticsView: State changes now dynamically update VoiceOver's .accessibilityLabel combined with direct .announcements. Added context using accessibilityHint.
  • TerminalSelectionMenuView: Hardcoded UIKit closures now manually announce standard feedback phrases ("Copied selection", "Copied all text", "Pasted text") using UIAccessibility.post(notification: .announcement, ...).

PR created automatically by Jules for task 13534513070067183142 started by @emkey1

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- `AppDiagnosticsView.swift`: Wrapped transient `copiedReport` state toggle in `withAnimation {}` for graceful transitions, and explicitly added VoiceOver `.announcement` calls alongside `.accessibilityLabel` state switching.
- `TerminalSelection.swift`: `didTapCopy`, `didTapCopyAll`, and `didTapPaste` now actively broadcast their successes using `UIAccessibility.post`, fixing the UX issue where the menu dismissed silently for screen reader users without any feedback.
- Logged new a11y UI learnings in `.Jules/palette.md`.

Co-authored-by: emkey1 <18100932+emkey1@users.noreply.github.com>
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google-labs-jules Bot and others added 2 commits June 21, 2026 03:08
- Resolved CI failure (`exit code 8`) by updating multiple `.disasm` and `.err` test fixtures in `Tests/Pascal/`, `Tests/clike/`, and `Tests/rea/`. A recent change upstream shifted the `CALL_BUILTIN_PROC` index for `write` from `177` to `180` (and `UserProcCallTest` local slot generation slightly changed), causing strict string mismatch failures in GitHub Actions.
- Re-applied UX improvements:
  - `AppDiagnosticsView.swift`: Wrapped transient `copiedReport` state toggle in `withAnimation {}` for graceful transitions, and explicitly added VoiceOver `.announcement` calls alongside `.accessibilityLabel` state switching.
  - `TerminalSelection.swift`: `didTapCopy`, `didTapCopyAll`, and `didTapPaste` now actively broadcast their successes using `UIAccessibility.post`, fixing the UX issue where the menu dismissed silently for screen reader users without any feedback.
- Logged new a11y UI learnings in `.Jules/palette.md`.

Co-authored-by: emkey1 <18100932+emkey1@users.noreply.github.com>
- Resolved CI failure (`exit code 8`) by updating multiple `.disasm` and `.err` test fixtures in `Tests/Pascal/`, `Tests/clike/`, and `Tests/rea/`. A recent change upstream shifted the `CALL_BUILTIN_PROC` index for `write` from `177` to `180` (and `UserProcCallTest` local slot generation slightly changed), causing strict string mismatch failures in GitHub Actions.
- Re-applied UX improvements:
  - `AppDiagnosticsView.swift`: Wrapped transient `copiedReport` state toggle in `withAnimation {}` for graceful transitions, and explicitly added VoiceOver `.announcement` calls alongside `.accessibilityLabel` state switching.
  - `TerminalSelection.swift`: `didTapCopy`, `didTapCopyAll`, and `didTapPaste` now actively broadcast their successes using `UIAccessibility.post`, fixing the UX issue where the menu dismissed silently for screen reader users without any feedback.
- Logged new a11y UI learnings in `.Jules/palette.md`.

Co-authored-by: emkey1 <18100932+emkey1@users.noreply.github.com>
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