Improve accessibility: mark decorative icons as not important for accessibility#5247
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android:importantForAccessibility="no"to decorative ImageViews in About screenChanges
app/src/main/res/layout/activity_about.xmlimportantForAccessibility="no":Why This Approach?
These icons are decorative - they appear next to text labels that already describe the action. Following Android accessibility
guidelines:
contentDescriptionwould cause redundant announcements ("Source code icon, Source code")importantForAccessibility="no"lets screen readers skip the icon and announce only the textRelated
Continues accessibility improvements from #5105 and #5110
Testing