chore!: removal of HiddenText

[LinKCoding]

Overview

Removes the deprecated HiddenText component from @codecademy/gamut. HiddenText was already marked @deprecated in favor of <Text screenreader>

PR Checklist

• Related to designs:
• Related to JIRA ticket: GMT-1625
• Version plan added/updated (or not needed)
• I have run this code to verify it works
• This PR includes unit tests for the code change
• This PR includes testing instructions tests for the code change
• The alpha package of this PR is passing end-to-end tests in all relevant Codecademy repositories

Testing Instructions

Don't make me tap the sign.

1. Turn on VO
2. Go to: ConnectedFormGroup (/?path=/story/organisms-connectedform-connectedformgroup--default) set hideLabel to true and check that VO still announces the label
3. Go to: ConnectedForm SubmitButton (/?path=/story/organisms-connectedform-submitbutton--states) check that the loading button still announces "loading"
4. Go to a story (/?path=/story/organisms-gridform-buttons--submit-button-inline) check that the hidden label still announces "Simple text" (NOTE: I will remove this test code before merging)
5. ...
6. Finish and do a celebratory dance

PR Links and Envs

Repository	PR Link
Monolith	Monolith PR
Mono	Mono PR

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☁️ Nx Cloud last updated this comment at 2026-06-01 20:48:03 UTC

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📬 Published Alpha Packages:

Package	Version	npm	Diff
@codecademy/gamut	70.0.1-alpha.cbad11.0	npm	diff
@codecademy/gamut-icons	9.57.8-alpha.cbad11.0	npm	diff
@codecademy/gamut-illustrations	0.58.14-alpha.cbad11.0	npm	diff
@codecademy/gamut-kit	1.0.1-alpha.cbad11.0	npm	diff
@codecademy/gamut-patterns	0.10.33-alpha.cbad11.0	npm	diff
@codecademy/gamut-styles	20.0.1-alpha.cbad11.0	npm	diff
@codecademy/gamut-tests	6.0.4-alpha.cbad11.0	npm	diff
@codecademy/variance	0.26.2-alpha.cbad11.0	npm	diff
eslint-plugin-gamut	2.4.4-alpha.cbad11.0	npm	diff

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[aresnik11]

LGTM!