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🎨 Palette: Add Cmd+K shortcut to SearchBar#23

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🎨 Palette: Add Cmd+K shortcut to SearchBar#23
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@isaidj isaidj commented Feb 4, 2026

🎨 Palette Improvement: Enhanced Search Accessibility

What:

  • Added a Cmd+K / Ctrl+K keyboard shortcut to focus the global search bar.
  • Added a visual badge inside the search input that indicates the shortcut.
  • The badge is platform-aware (shows ⌘ on Mac, Ctrl on others).
  • The badge disappears when the user types.

Why:

  • Improves accessibility for keyboard users.
  • Follows standard web application patterns for global search.
  • Reduces friction for power users.

Accessibility:

  • Added aria-label to the search input.
  • Visual hint is hidden from screen readers via pointer-events-none (and naturally skipped as it's just text, though aria-hidden might be better, it's just a span). Wait, I didn't add aria-hidden to the hint. The hint is text content. Screen readers will read "Command K" if they traverse it. That's actually fine/good.

Testing:

  • Verified with Playwright (logs confirmed shortcut works and input focuses).
  • Verified build passes (TS checks).

PR created automatically by Jules for task 12189580861888419717 started by @isaidj

- Adds global keyboard listener for Cmd+K (Mac) / Ctrl+K (Windows)
- Focuses search input when triggered
- Displays platform-aware visual hint (⌘K / Ctrl+K) in the input
- Adds aria-label to search input for better accessibility
- Uses pointer-events-none to prevent interaction with the hint badge

Co-authored-by: isaidj <44456363+isaidj@users.noreply.github.com>
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