Pass in a prop to override screen reader text for chat messages i.e. "Bot Says..." -> "{name} Says..."

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We would like to have the option to customize the screen reader text for incoming messages. We see that the screen reader is hard coded to use “Bot says {message}”, but we would like to be able to pass in a value to change it to a different value i.e. “Alice says {message}”

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, screen readers will always begin with “Bot says {message}”, but accessibility-wise, we don’t always want to begin with that text.

Describe the suggestion or request in detail

We want to pass in a name as an optional override to replace “Bot” in the screen reader text, when we initialize the WebChat component.

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Additional context

[Enhancement]

[corinagum]

Yep, entire aria-label, not including the actual activity text. 😃 great!

[corinagum]

I’m reopening this issue for further discussion within the team. We’ll get back to you shortly. 😃