Fix homepage accessibility

[sarayourfriend]

Fixes

Fixes #652 by @dhruvkb

Description

Switches to a static version of the homepage that randomly selects a set of featured images to show. To avoid creating any accessibility problems with these images, they're wrapped in aria-hidden.

This removes the animated placeholder text. There is an aria-label on the search input that indicates it is for searching.

VInputField's sr-only label element was causing a weird "Safari is busy" bug with VoiceOver. Replacing it with an aria-label has the same effect as the sr-only label element but fixes this bug (I don't know why this bug is happening but we can dig into that a later date).

Testing Instructions

Checkout this branch and run pnpm dev. Visit the site in Safari with VoiceOver and verify that you can successfully navigate the homepage and execute a search.

Note: there are other problems with moving from the homepage to the search results, but I've opened a separate issue to solve those here: #659

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[zackkrida]

Thanks for addressing this so quickly. Perhaps we can eventually make an improvement where we show the 'featured search' term somewhere else, not related to the input, and get these images cycling again in the short future.

[fcoveram]

Can we add a static placeholder that says Search for content? An input without label nor placeholder looks odd.