Repository: flutter
Issue: InputDecorator prefix and suffix text isn't included in semantics when TextField is wrapped in MergeSemantics.
Labels: framework,a: accessibility,c: proposal,P2,customer: quake (g3),team-accessibility,triaged-accessibility

## Description

When creating a `TextField` (or `TextFormField`), there isn't a good way to merge the semantics of the prefix/suffix fields of an `InputDecorator`.  If you do the obvious thing:

```dart
MergeSemantics(
  child: Semantics(
    label: 'Room Height',
    child: TextField(
      controller: _heightController,
      keyboardType: TextInputType.number,
      decoration: const InputDecoration(
        prefixText: 'height',
        suffixText: 'feet',
        prefixStyle: TextStyle(color: Colors.red),
      ),
    ),
  ),
)
```

<details>
<summary>Semantic Tree</summary>

```
SemanticsNode#0
 │ Rect.fromLTRB(0.0, 0.0, 1080.0, 2340.0)
 │
 └─SemanticsNode#1
   │ Rect.fromLTRB(0.0, 0.0, 411.4, 891.4) scaled by 2.6x
   │ textDirection: ltr
   │
   └─SemanticsNode#2
     │ Rect.fromLTRB(0.0, 0.0, 411.4, 891.4)
     │ sortKey: OrdinalSortKey#a7ceb(order: 0.0)
     │
     └─SemanticsNode#3
       │ Rect.fromLTRB(0.0, 0.0, 411.4, 891.4)
       │ flags: scopesRoute
       │
       ├─SemanticsNode#6
       │   Rect.fromLTRB(16.0, 24.5, 76.5, 55.5)
       │   tags: []
       │   label: "height"
       │   textDirection: ltr
       │   sortKey: OrdinalSortKey#c3609(name: "238345892", order: 0.0)
       │
       ├─SemanticsNode#4
       │   merge boundary ⛔️
       │   Rect.fromLTRB(16.0, 16.0, 395.4, 64.0)
       │   actions: focus, moveCursorBackwardByCharacter,
       │     moveCursorBackwardByWord, setSelection, setText, tap
       │   flags: isTextField, isFocused, hasEnabledState, isEnabled
       │   label: "Room Height"
       │   value: ""
       │   textDirection: ltr
       │   sortKey: OrdinalSortKey#59316(name: "238345892", order: 1.0)
       │   text selection: [3, 3]
       │   currentValueLength: 3
       │
       ├─SemanticsNode#7
       │   Rect.fromLTRB(357.6, 24.5, 395.4, 55.5)
       │   tags: []
       │   label: "feet"
       │   textDirection: ltr
       │   sortKey: OrdinalSortKey#390ca(name: "238345892", order: 2.0)
       │
       └─SemanticsNode#5
           Rect.fromLTRB(161.1, 64.0, 250.3, 112.0)
           actions: focus, tap
           flags: isButton, hasEnabledState, isEnabled, isFocusable
           label: "Dump"
           textDirection: ltr
           thickness: 1.0
```

</details>

Then the semantics label you get on Talkback when the field is focused is "Room Height", not "Room Height height feet" (or, more usefully: "Room Height prefix height suffix feet" or something similar).

This is probably a design choice because people often put controls in the suffix and prefix fields, but if those are text (via `prefixText` and `suffixText`), then it seems like a good idea to merge their semantics somehow if there is a `MergeSemantics` around the text field.

Below is a simple reproduction case. Also, if you uncomment the `container: true`, then it merges in the prefix and suffix to the semantics nodes as expected, but Talkback doesn't read them, and you can no longer navigate to them (because they are merged in, which makes sense).

There needs to be a way to merge in the semantics so that a suffix or prefix will be read, but without it appearing to be part of the user's text (in Talkback).

```dart
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter/rendering.dart';

void main() {
  runApp(const MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyApp({super.key});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      home: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          title: const Text('Semantics Demo'),
        ),
        body: const Center(
          child: Padding(
            padding: EdgeInsets.all(16.0),
            child: HeightInput(),
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

class HeightInput extends StatefulWidget {
  const HeightInput({super.key});

  @override
  State<HeightInput> createState() => _HeightInputState();
}

class _HeightInputState extends State<HeightInput> {
  final TextEditingController _heightController = TextEditingController();

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    _heightController.addListener(() {
      if (_heightController.text.startsWith('d')) {
        debugDumpSemanticsTree();
      }
    });
  }


  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Column(
      children: <Widget>[
        MergeSemantics(
          child: Semantics(
            label: 'Room Height',
            // container: true, // Uncomment this to see container effect.
            child: TextField(
              controller: _heightController,
              keyboardType: TextInputType.text,
              decoration: const InputDecoration(
                prefixText: 'height',
                suffixText: 'feet',
              ),
            ),
          ),
        ),
        const ElevatedButton(
          onPressed: debugDumpSemanticsTree,
          child: Text('Dump'),
        )
      ],
    );
  }

  @override
  void dispose() {
    _heightController.dispose();
    super.dispose();
  }
}

```

<details>
<summary>Semantic Tree with container:true</summary>

```
SemanticsNode#0
 │ Rect.fromLTRB(0.0, 0.0, 1080.0, 2340.0)
 │
 └─SemanticsNode#1
   │ Rect.fromLTRB(0.0, 0.0, 411.4, 891.4) scaled by 2.6x
   │ textDirection: ltr
   │
   └─SemanticsNode#2
     │ Rect.fromLTRB(0.0, 0.0, 411.4, 891.4)
     │ sortKey: OrdinalSortKey#317df(order: 0.0)
     │
     └─SemanticsNode#3
       │ Rect.fromLTRB(0.0, 0.0, 411.4, 891.4)
       │ flags: scopesRoute
       │
       ├─SemanticsNode#7
       │ │ Rect.fromLTRB(0.0, 0.0, 411.4, 97.1)
       │ │
       │ └─SemanticsNode#8
       │     Rect.fromLTRB(16.0, 51.1, 233.0, 87.1)
       │     flags: isHeader, namesRoute
       │     label: "Semantics Demo"
       │     textDirection: ltr
       │
       ├─SemanticsNode#4
       │ │ merge boundary ⛔️
       │ │ Rect.fromLTRB(16.0, 113.1, 395.4, 161.1)
       │ │
       │ ├─SemanticsNode#9
       │ │   merged up ⬆️
       │ │   Rect.fromLTRB(0.0, 8.5, 60.5, 39.5)
       │ │   tags: []
       │ │   label: "height"
       │ │   textDirection: ltr
       │ │   sortKey: OrdinalSortKey#dbfb4(name: "859212319", order: 0.0)
       │ │
       │ ├─SemanticsNode#5
       │ │   merged up ⬆️
       │ │   Rect.fromLTRB(0.0, 0.0, 379.4, 48.0)
       │ │   actions: focus, setSelection, setText, tap
       │ │   flags: isTextField, isFocused, hasEnabledState, isEnabled
       │ │   label: "Room Height"
       │ │   textDirection: ltr
       │ │   sortKey: OrdinalSortKey#3e8c4(name: "859212319", order: 1.0)
       │ │   text selection: [0, 0]
       │ │   currentValueLength: 0
       │ │
       │ └─SemanticsNode#10
       │     merged up ⬆️
       │     Rect.fromLTRB(341.6, 8.5, 379.4, 39.5)
       │     tags: []
       │     label: "feet"
       │     textDirection: ltr
       │     sortKey: OrdinalSortKey#bbdd6(name: "859212319", order: 2.0)
       │
       └─SemanticsNode#6
           Rect.fromLTRB(161.1, 161.1, 250.3, 209.1)
           actions: focus, tap
           flags: isButton, hasEnabledState, isEnabled, isFocusable
           label: "Dump"
           textDirection: ltr
           thickness: 1.0
I/flutter ( 8407):
```
</details>

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<summary>flutter doctor -v</summary>

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