Re: [WICG/webcomponents] [a11y]: permit aria-hidden=true on focusable shadow elements in FACE (Issue #1014)

Thanks for the summary, @bennypowers.

Just to add some nuance, the experiment I ran was:

- In a local build of Chromium, I commented out the check for an element with `aria-hidden=true` being focusable in order to include it in the accessibility, so that *all* elements with `aria-hidden=true` are hidden from the accessibility tree, undoing the fix which was added in order to prevent a poor experience from focusing on `aria-hidden` elements.
- I then experimented with https://codepen.io/sundress/pen/dyQyqjd?editors=1011 (forked from an earlier demo by @bennypowers) in my local build, using VoiceOver.
- I could verify that the `<input>` was hidden from the accessibility tree, and that, surprisingly, when keyboard focus was placed on the `<input>`, there was an announcement that VoiceOver was on an edit field.
- However, that's about where the success of the experiment ended: I couldn't get any label association to work, and input into the text field wasn't announced the way it is with the plain `<input>`.

I'm less than optimistic about this as a viable pathway even with this mild success; I think there will be a lot of details to figure out, and I would rather we spend that energy on one of the less hacky, longer-term, more general options.

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