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💡 What: Added dynamic context to the .help() tooltips and .accessibilityLabel() modifiers for the icon-only Edit and Delete buttons across all three list types (Quick Text, Connected Apps, and Links) in the On Screen Keyboard Settings view.
🎯 Why: Previously, these buttons used static strings like "Edit app" or "Delete quick text". In a list containing multiple items, a VoiceOver user would hear the exact same announcement for every edit button, making it impossible to confidently identify which row they are about to modify or delete without checking the surrounding context. Interpolating the item's name solves this ambiguity.
♿ Accessibility: Significantly improves screen reader navigation and confidence within these lists by providing explicit, contextual action labels (e.g., "Edit app: Safari" instead of just "Edit app").


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  • Accessibility
    • Edit and delete buttons for quick text entries, app-bar items, and website links now include the associated item’s details in their accessibility labels and help text. Website links use the URL when the title is empty.

Icon-only edit and delete buttons in the On Screen Keyboard settings view
previously had static accessibility labels (e.g., "Edit app"). This
made it difficult for VoiceOver users to distinguish which row they
were acting on when multiple items were present.

This change interpolates the specific item's context (such as the app name,
quick text content, or link title) into both the `.help()` tooltips and
`.accessibilityLabel()` modifiers.

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Edit and delete buttons for quick texts, app-bar items, and website links now include item-specific context in their help text and accessibility labels. Website-link labels use the URL when the link title is empty. The palette documents this pattern.

Changes: List action labels

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Add item context to action labels
XboxControllerMapper/XboxControllerMapper/Views/MainWindow/OnScreenKeyboardSettingsView.swift, .Jules/palette.md
Quick-text buttons use the quick-text contents in their help text and accessibility labels. App-bar buttons use the app name. Website-link buttons use the link title, or the URL when the title is empty. The palette documents item-specific context for these labels.

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The updated On Screen Keyboard Settings view references properties that do not exist on the app and link rows, so the app will not build. Switch these labels to the existing display-name properties, keeping the URL fallback for unnamed links, before merging.

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The title names a palette change that adds dynamic accessibility labels to list buttons. The changeset matches this. The Edit and Delete buttons in the Quick Text, app-bar, and website link lists now include item-specific context in their help text and accessibility labels. The palette entry in .Jules/palette.md documents the same pattern. The title does not name the three affected lists or the VoiceOver purpose, but it covers the main change.

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Comment thread .Jules/palette.md
Comment on lines +70 to +72
## 2024-11-20 - [Dynamic Accessibility Labels for OSK Action Buttons]
**Learning:** Icon-only buttons used for editing and deleting items in dynamic lists (e.g., in `OnScreenKeyboardSettingsView.swift`) must interpolate the item's context (e.g., `item.name`) into both `.help()` and `.accessibilityLabel()` modifiers to prevent ambiguous or repeating VoiceOver announcements.
**Action:** Always interpolate dynamic context into static accessibility labels for icon-only edit/delete buttons in lists.

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Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Align the palette example with the repository models.

item.name is not a shared property here. The affected models use QuickText.text and displayName. Use generic wording or list the actual model-specific properties to avoid repeating invalid field names.

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Review comment at @.Jules/palette.md around lines 70 - 72:
Update the palette guidance to avoid presenting item.name as a shared model
property; use generic wording or identify the actual model-specific properties,
QuickText.text and displayName, while preserving the accessibility-label
guidance.

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Comment on lines +202 to +203
.help("Edit app: \(app.name)")
.accessibilityLabel("Edit app: \(app.name)")

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Use the actual row model properties.

AppBarItemRowView declares item, not app, and AppBarItem exposes displayName, not name. WebsiteLink exposes displayName, not title. These expressions prevent the Swift file from compiling. Use item.displayName and link.displayName, while preserving the URL fallback for empty link names.

Proposed fix
-            .help("Edit app: \(app.name)")
-            .accessibilityLabel("Edit app: \(app.name)")
+            .help("Edit app: \(item.displayName)")
+            .accessibilityLabel("Edit app: \(item.displayName)")

-            .help("Delete app: \(app.name)")
-            .accessibilityLabel("Delete app: \(app.name)")
+            .help("Delete app: \(item.displayName)")
+            .accessibilityLabel("Delete app: \(item.displayName)")

-            .help("Edit link: \(link.title.isEmpty ? link.url : link.title)")
-            .accessibilityLabel("Edit link: \(link.title.isEmpty ? link.url : link.title)")
+            .help("Edit link: \(link.displayName.isEmpty ? link.url : link.displayName)")
+            .accessibilityLabel("Edit link: \(link.displayName.isEmpty ? link.url : link.displayName)")

-            .help("Delete link: \(link.title.isEmpty ? link.url : link.title)")
-            .accessibilityLabel("Delete link: \(link.title.isEmpty ? link.url : link.title)")
+            .help("Delete link: \(link.displayName.isEmpty ? link.url : link.displayName)")
+            .accessibilityLabel("Delete link: \(link.displayName.isEmpty ? link.url : link.displayName)")

Also applies to: 210-211, 283-284, 291-292

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Update the app edit and delete help and accessibility labels in
AppBarItemRowView to use item.displayName, and update the link edit and delete
labels to use link.displayName instead of title. Preserve the URL fallback when
a link’s displayName is empty.

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Icon-only edit and delete buttons in the On Screen Keyboard settings view
previously had static accessibility labels (e.g., "Edit app"). This
made it difficult for VoiceOver users to distinguish which row they
were acting on when multiple items were present.

This change interpolates the specific item's context (such as the app name,
quick text content, or link title) into both the `.help()` tooltips and
`.accessibilityLabel()` modifiers.

Co-authored-by: NSEvent <44446865+NSEvent@users.noreply.github.com>
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🤖 Managed by GLM-5.3 Flash (local model on kmacbeast). Closing because it does not build or merge onto main: target 'XboxControllerMapper' from project 'XboxControllerMapper')
SwiftCompile normal arm64 /Users/kevin/.local/share/flash-jules/work/XboxControllerMapper/XboxControllerMapper/Views/MainWindow/OnScreenKeyboardSettingsView.swift (in target 'XboxControllerMapper' from project 'XboxControllerMapper')
Building project XboxControllerMapper for testing with scheme XboxControllerMapper
(3 failures).

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🤖 Managed by GLM-5.3 Flash (local model on kmacbeast). Closing because it does not build or merge onto main: target 'XboxControllerMapper' from project 'XboxControllerMapper')
SwiftCompile normal arm64 /Users/kevin/.local/share/flash-jules/work/XboxControllerMapper/XboxControllerMapper/Views/MainWindow/OnScreenKeyboardSettingsView.swift (in target 'XboxControllerMapper' from project 'XboxControllerMapper')
Building project XboxControllerMapper for testing with scheme XboxControllerMapper
(3 failures).

I have updated the PR to resolve the Swift 6 actor-isolation warning by moving the AppMonitor initialization inside a Task { @MainActor in ... }.

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