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🎨 Palette: Improve screen reader accessibility for dynamic game score#142

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💡 What

Added aria-live="polite" and aria-atomic="true" attributes to the #score element in the Mario game view (src/views/mario-game.njk). Also logged a critical learning about dynamic status accessibility in .Jules/palette.md.

🎯 Why

When dynamic status updates occur (like a score increasing in a game), screen readers do not automatically announce the change unless explicitly told to do so via ARIA attributes. Without these attributes, visually impaired users lose context of their progress.

📸 Before/After

(No visual changes, purely semantic DOM updates)

♿ Accessibility

  • Ensured dynamic score updates are announced by screen readers without aggressively interrupting the user (using the polite setting).
  • Ensured the entire score text is read as a single atomic unit using aria-atomic="true".

PR created automatically by Jules for task 679652607340806086 started by @EiJackGH

Added `aria-live="polite"` and `aria-atomic="true"` to the dynamic score
element in `src/views/mario-game.njk`. This ensures that screen readers
announce score changes, making the game's state accessible to visually
impaired users. Also documented this accessibility pattern in the Palette
journal.

Co-authored-by: EiJackGH <172181576+EiJackGH@users.noreply.github.com>
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