Investigate IndicatorView accessibility
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Description
### Description
IndicatorView is a cross-platform control used largely to indicate which view of a carousel a user is seeing. It is represented by a series of dots, one of which is highlighted to represent the current view.

Beyond just the decorative indication, however, these tiny dots are also interactive - the dots can be clicked on! However, the dots are usually very tiny and hard to click on, so it's an accessibility issue. And while the size of the dots _can_ be increased to the minimum 44x44 - it takes away from the experience.

So what can we do? Here are some potential ideas:
## Approach 1: Make the IndicatorView noninteractive
Perhaps it would be best to make the IndicatorView noninteractive entirely, and make it purely decorative, no exceptions.
## Approach 2: Add a property to make the IndicatorView noninteractive
Perhaps there is utility in the interactive quality of IndicatorView. Maybe we can introduce a property to make it noninteractive and only decorative by default. But a property can be set to make it behave as it currently does should developers have a unique scenario
## Approach 3: Attempt the iOS approach
IndicatorView is only inherent to the iOS platform - we have custom code to make it exist on the other platforms. So if we're copying iOS, perhaps we should copy the full scope of their control.
On iOS, the individual dots are not interactive - the entire IndicatorView, the series of dots as a single unit, is interactive. Users hold down and drag their finger left/right to navigate views.
## Open to other ideas!
### Steps to Reproduce
1. Run .NET MAUI control gallery
2. Navigate to IndicatorView page
### Link to public reproduction project repository
dotnet/maui
### Version with bug
6.0.486 (current)
### Last version that worked well
Unknown/Other
### Affected platforms
iOS, Android, Windows, macOS
### Affected platform versions
all
### Did you find any workaround?
_No response_
### Relevant log output
_No response_
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by running the .NET MAUI control gallery and opening the IndicatorView page to reproduce the small interactive dots on each affected platform. The issue presents several competing approaches but names no implementation file or test, so first establish the intended interaction and accessibility behavior; done requires an agreed design and verification that the resulting control is accessible.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- accessibility
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100