feat(SearchBox) add role=search to the form #2046
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Summary
Add a
role=search
to the form of the searchbox.This helps for screenreaders, and is valid html5 since december 2015. Before then it was working, but not valid. see also w3c/html-aria#18
Result
Some screen readers will read our search input as
search form: 3 inputs
. Others will still sayform: 3 inputs
.