diff --git a/src/index.html b/src/index.html
index 06ae2ac..ffaef5d 100644
--- a/src/index.html
+++ b/src/index.html
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@
 
             <div class="status-bar">
                 <div class="status-indicator">
-                    <div class="status-dot" id="statusDot"></div>
+                    <div class="status-dot" id="statusDot" aria-hidden="true"></div>
                     <span id="statusText">Nicht verbunden</span>
                 </div>
                 <span id="statusBarQueueSummary" class="status-bar-queue-summary"></span>
diff --git a/src/renderer-locale-de.ts b/src/renderer-locale-de.ts
index aa5048d..990e038 100644
--- a/src/renderer-locale-de.ts
+++ b/src/renderer-locale-de.ts
@@ -297,6 +297,8 @@ const UI_TEXT_DE = {
         viewChat: 'Chat ansehen',
         viewChatLoading: 'Lade Chat...',
         viewChatFailed: 'Chat-Datei konnte nicht gelesen werden',
+        chatViewerFilterPlaceholder: 'Chat filtern...',
+        chatViewerFilterAria: 'Chatnachrichten filtern',
         viewChatCount: '{count} Nachrichten',
         viewChatTruncatedSuffix: ' (gekuerzt)',
         viewEvents: 'Events ansehen',
diff --git a/src/renderer-locale-en.ts b/src/renderer-locale-en.ts
index eb2d277..766adb8 100644
--- a/src/renderer-locale-en.ts
+++ b/src/renderer-locale-en.ts
@@ -297,6 +297,8 @@ const UI_TEXT_EN = {
         viewChat: 'View chat',
         viewChatLoading: 'Loading chat...',
         viewChatFailed: 'Could not read chat file',
+        chatViewerFilterPlaceholder: 'Filter chat...',
+        chatViewerFilterAria: 'Filter chat messages',
         viewChatCount: '{count} messages',
         viewChatTruncatedSuffix: ' (truncated)',
         viewEvents: 'View events',
diff --git a/src/renderer-texts.ts b/src/renderer-texts.ts
index 8d86cb7..1a04ba2 100644
--- a/src/renderer-texts.ts
+++ b/src/renderer-texts.ts
@@ -291,6 +291,8 @@ function applyLanguageToStaticUI(): void {
     setPlaceholder('vodFilterInput', UI_TEXT.vods.filterPlaceholder);
     setTitle('vodFilterClearBtn', UI_TEXT.vods.filterClearTitle);
     setAriaLabel('vodFilterClearBtn', UI_TEXT.vods.filterClearTitle);
+    setPlaceholder('chatViewerFilter', UI_TEXT.queue.chatViewerFilterPlaceholder);
+    setAriaLabel('chatViewerFilter', UI_TEXT.queue.chatViewerFilterAria);
     setText('vodSortLabel', UI_TEXT.vods.sortLabel);
     if (typeof refreshVodSortSelectLabels === 'function') {
         refreshVodSortSelectLabels();