feat: Announce usage hints to screenreaders on initial workspace focus#9871
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curious that the formatting changed on the en file but /shrug
| * Whether this workspace has ever been focused. Used to announce usage hints | ||
| * to screenreaders on initial focus only. | ||
| */ | ||
| private everFocused = false; |
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This might be better as a global constant, since we really want it to show once per session. We wouldn't want it to repeat in the multiplayground (or more practically, in something like code.org's modal function editor)
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Fixes #9621
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This PR announces a brief message offering guidance on navigation and information on how to optimize Blockly for screenreader usage the first time that the workspace is focused.