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Skills status list uses status icons with aria labels

The skills status list now shows status icons with screen-reader labels instead of coloured symbols

You'll notice Improvements
JSON All of v2.1.281
You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
AccessibilityArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.281,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What

The skills list shows each skill's state: on, name only, user only or off. Each state used to be shown as a coloured symbol with a label. Now it is a status icon with a word next to it. The icon also carries an aria-label, which is text a screen reader reads aloud, such as "name only:" or "user only:".

Why

People using screen readers can now hear each skill's state, instead of it being shown only by symbol and colour.

How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's release notes agreeImproved screen-reader output in /mcp: a disabled server is read as "off" instead of "pending"

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