Team, could you please look into this issue. 

Thank you.

Any update? How can we help to ensure that these accessibility items are fixed for md-settings?

Thanks!

Getting rid of the middle text is easy: we just need to set aria-hidden="true" on the label element (which is what paper-input does).

Getting rid of the first announcement is a bit trickier, but I think setting aria-hidden="true" on that element when the toolbar is in wide mode would work.

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/16b08645940137900070a7c93cbb489526e63f4b

commit 16b08645940137900070a7c93cbb489526e63f4b
Author: tsergeant <tsergeant@chromium.org>
Date: Tue Mar 21 03:21:12 2017

MD Webui: Improve accessibility of toolbar search field

This hides the static label text from screen readers, and similarly
hides the search icon button when the toolbar is in wide mode and
the button is purely decorative.

The result is that screen readers moving through the toolbar will
go straight to the search field, rather than needing to move through
two redundant search-related elements.

BUG= 626877 
CQ_INCLUDE_TRYBOTS=master.tryserver.chromium.linux:closure_compilation

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2759073002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#458293}

[modify] https://crrev.com/16b08645940137900070a7c93cbb489526e63f4b/ui/webui/resources/cr_elements/cr_toolbar/cr_toolbar_search_field.html
[modify] https://crrev.com/16b08645940137900070a7c93cbb489526e63f4b/ui/webui/resources/cr_elements/cr_toolbar/cr_toolbar_search_field.js