Playback and recording meters: peak level and clipping indication are not accessible to users of screen readers.
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Description
### Bug description
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### Steps to reproduce
1. Run a screen reader
2. Try to find out the peak level and whether clipping has occurred for a playback/recording meter
### Expected behavior
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### Actual behavior
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### Audacity Version
Other
### Operating system
Windows
### Additional context
Tested using commit c5a20ac
On Windows, this is a regression wrt Audacity 3.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by locating the playback and recording meter implementation and its accessibility handling, then compare the behavior with Audacity 3 on Windows. Test with a screen reader to verify that peak level and clipping status are exposed for both meters; done means users can read both values reliably.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- accessibility
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100