🎨 Palette: Add aria-labels to Empty State Buttons

[AhmmedSamier]

💡 What: Added aria-label attributes to dynamically generated empty state and history toolbar buttons in the search webview.
🎯 Why: To improve screen reader accessibility and ensure buttons have descriptive accessible names.
📸 Before/After: None (non-visual change).
♿ Accessibility: Improved keyboard/screen reader navigation for empty state actions.

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PR created automatically by Jules for task 94065777604541594 started by @AhmmedSamier

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Accessibility
  • Added descriptive labels to search actions and recent-history controls, improving screen reader support and making buttons easier to identify.

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• vscode-extension/src/webviews/search-view.html

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The search webview adds explicit aria-label attributes to empty-state action buttons and recent-history toolbar controls. No message handling or other logic changes are included.

Changes

Search view accessibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add ARIA labels to search controls vscode-extension/src/webviews/search-view.html	Empty-state actions and recent-history controls now expose explicit labels for screen readers.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• AhmmedSamier/DeepLens#504: Adds related accessibility labels and focus styling in the search view.
• AhmmedSamier/DeepLens#505: Adds ARIA labels to overlapping dynamically rendered search controls.
• AhmmedSamier/DeepLens#512: Modifies the same empty-state and recent-history button markup.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title is clear and accurately reflects the accessibility-focused aria-label additions, though it mentions only the empty-state buttons.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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