♿️(frontend) replace ARIA grid pattern with list in docs grid#2131
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Use list/listitem roles, mark column headers as aria-hidden
Pass i18n strings for screenReaderInstructions and announcements.
Adapt selectors from grid/row to list/listitem and add a Tab+Enter test
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Purpose
The document grid used
role="grid"withrole="row",role="gridcell",role="rowgroup", androle="columnheader". This ARIA grid pattern requires full keyboard navigation with arrow keys which it's not implemented and demand to much complexity, . With role="grid", some screen readers switch to a mode where arrow keys are handled by the page; since the page did not implement grid navigation, that interaction did not work as expected.Proposal
role="grid"/role="row"/role="gridcell"/role="columnheader"/role="rowgroup"withrole="list"/role="listitem", matching the actual semantics (a list of documents, not a data grid)Name,Updated at) asaria-hidden="true"since they are no longer part of the list semanticsscreenReaderInstructionsandannouncementsonDndContext(accessibilityprop) so SR copy can be localized via i18n