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Reverts "SliverEnsureSemantics (#165589)" (#166870)
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Reverts: flutter/flutter#165589
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Initiated by: Renzo-Olivares
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Reason for reverting: breaking internal tests
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Original PR Author: Renzo-Olivares
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This change reverts the following previous change:
Currently when using a `CustomScrollView`, screen readers cannot list or
move focus to elements that are outside the current Viewport and cache
extent because we do not create semantic nodes for these elements.

This change introduces `SliverEnsureSemantics` which ensures its sliver
child is included in the semantics tree, whether or not it is currently
visible on the screen or within the cache extent. This way screen
readers are aware the elements are there and can navigate to them /
create accessibility traversal menus with this information.
* Under the hood a new flag has been added to `RenderSliver` called
`ensureSemantics`. `RenderViewportBase` uses this in its
`visitChildrenForSemantics` to ensure a sliver is visited when creating
the semantics tree. Previously a sliver was not visited if it was not
visible or within the cache extent. `RenderViewportBase` also uses this
in `describeSemanticsClip` and `describeApproximatePaintClip` to ensure
a sliver child that wants to "ensure semantics" is not clipped out if it
is not currently visible in the viewport or outside the cache extent.
* `RenderSliverMultiBoxAdaptor.semanticBounds` now leverages its first
child as an anchor for assistive technologies to be able to reach it if
the Sliver is a child of `SliverEnsureSemantics`. If not it will still
be dropped from the semantics tree.
* `RenderProxySliver` now considers child overrides of `semanticBounds`.

On the engine side we move from using a joystick method to scroll with
`SemanticsAction.scrollUp` and `SemanticsAction.scrollDown` to using
`SemanticsAction.scrollToOffset` completely letting the browser drive
the scrolling with its current dom scroll position "scrollTop" or
"scrollLeft". This is possible by calculating the total quantity of
content under the scrollable and sizing the scroll element based on
that.

<details open><summary>Code sample</summary>

```dart
// Copyright 2014 The Flutter Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter/rendering.dart';

/// Flutter code sample for [SliverEnsureSemantics].

void main() => runApp(const SliverEnsureSemanticsExampleApp());

class SliverEnsureSemanticsExampleApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const SliverEnsureSemanticsExampleApp({super.key});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return const MaterialApp(home: SliverEnsureSemanticsExample());
  }
}

class SliverEnsureSemanticsExample extends StatefulWidget {
  const SliverEnsureSemanticsExample({super.key});

  @override
  State<SliverEnsureSemanticsExample> createState() =>
      _SliverEnsureSemanticsExampleState();
}

class _SliverEnsureSemanticsExampleState
    extends State<SliverEnsureSemanticsExample> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    final ThemeData theme = Theme.of(context);
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        backgroundColor: theme.colorScheme.inversePrimary,
        title: const Text('SliverEnsureSemantics Demo'),
      ),
      body: Center(
        child: CustomScrollView(
          semanticChildCount: 106,
          slivers: <Widget>[
            SliverEnsureSemantics(
              sliver: SliverToBoxAdapter(
                child: IndexedSemantics(
                  index: 0,
                  child: Card(
                    child: Padding(
                      padding: const EdgeInsets.all(8.0),
                      child: Column(
                        crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
                        children: <Widget>[
                          Semantics(
                            header: true,
                            headingLevel: 3,
                            child: Text(
                              'Steps to reproduce',
                              style: theme.textTheme.headlineSmall,
                            ),
                          ),
                          const Text('Issue description'),
                          Semantics(
                            header: true,
                            headingLevel: 3,
                            child: Text(
                              'Expected Results',
                              style: theme.textTheme.headlineSmall,
                            ),
                          ),
                          Semantics(
                            header: true,
                            headingLevel: 3,
                            child: Text(
                              'Actual Results',
                              style: theme.textTheme.headlineSmall,
                            ),
                          ),
                          Semantics(
                            header: true,
                            headingLevel: 3,
                            child: Text(
                              'Code Sample',
                              style: theme.textTheme.headlineSmall,
                            ),
                          ),
                          Semantics(
                            header: true,
                            headingLevel: 3,
                            child: Text(
                              'Screenshots',
                              style: theme.textTheme.headlineSmall,
                            ),
                          ),
                          Semantics(
                            header: true,
                            headingLevel: 3,
                            child: Text(
                              'Logs',
                              style: theme.textTheme.headlineSmall,
                            ),
                          ),
                        ],
                      ),
                    ),
                  ),
                ),
              ),
            ),
            SliverFixedExtentList(
              itemExtent: 44.0,
              delegate: SliverChildBuilderDelegate(
                (BuildContext context, int index) {
                  return Card(
                    child: Padding(
                      padding: const EdgeInsets.all(8.0),
                      child: Text('Item $index'),
                    ),
                  );
                },
                childCount: 50,
                semanticIndexOffset: 1,
              ),
            ),
            SliverEnsureSemantics(
              sliver: SliverToBoxAdapter(
                child: IndexedSemantics(
                  index: 51,
                  child: Card(
                    child: Padding(
                      padding: const EdgeInsets.all(8.0),
                      child: Semantics(
                        header: true,
                        child: const Text('Footer 1'),
                      ),
                    ),
                  ),
                ),
              ),
            ),
            SliverEnsureSemantics(
              sliver: SliverToBoxAdapter(
                child: IndexedSemantics(
                  index: 52,
                  child: Card(
                    child: Padding(
                      padding: const EdgeInsets.all(8.0),
                      child: Semantics(
                        header: true,
                        child: const Text('Footer 2'),
                      ),
                    ),
                  ),
                ),
              ),
            ),
            SliverEnsureSemantics(
              sliver: SliverToBoxAdapter(
                child: IndexedSemantics(
                  index: 53,
                  child: Semantics(link: true, child: const Text('Link #1')),
                ),
              ),
            ),
            SliverEnsureSemantics(
              sliver: SliverToBoxAdapter(
                child: IndexedSemantics(
                  index: 54,
                  child: OverflowBar(
                    children: <Widget>[
                      TextButton(
                        onPressed: () {},
                        child: const Text('Button 1'),
                      ),
                      TextButton(
                        onPressed: () {},
                        child: const Text('Button 2'),
                      ),
                    ],
                  ),
                ),
              ),
            ),
            SliverEnsureSemantics(
              sliver: SliverToBoxAdapter(
                child: IndexedSemantics(
                  index: 55,
                  child: Semantics(link: true, child: const Text('Link #2')),
                ),
              ),
            ),
            SliverEnsureSemantics(
              sliver: SliverSemanticsList(
                sliver: SliverFixedExtentList(
                  itemExtent: 44.0,
                  delegate: SliverChildBuilderDelegate(
                    (BuildContext context, int index) {
                      return Semantics(
                        role: SemanticsRole.listItem,
                        child: Card(
                          child: Padding(
                            padding: const EdgeInsets.all(8.0),
                            child: Text('Second List Item $index'),
                          ),
                        ),
                      );
                    },
                    childCount: 50,
                    semanticIndexOffset: 56,
                  ),
                ),
              ),
            ),
            SliverEnsureSemantics(
              sliver: SliverToBoxAdapter(
                child: IndexedSemantics(
                  index: 107,
                  child: Semantics(link: true, child: const Text('Link #3')),
                ),
              ),
            ),
          ],
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

// A sliver that assigns the role of SemanticsRole.list to its sliver child.
class SliverSemanticsList extends SingleChildRenderObjectWidget {
  const SliverSemanticsList({super.key, required Widget sliver})
    : super(child: sliver);

  @override
  RenderSliverSemanticsList createRenderObject(BuildContext context) =>
      RenderSliverSemanticsList();
}

class RenderSliverSemanticsList extends RenderProxySliver {
  @override
  void describeSemanticsConfiguration(SemanticsConfiguration config) {
    super.describeSemanticsConfiguration(config);
    config.role = SemanticsRole.list;
  }
}
```
</details>

Fixes: #160217

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