closed captions block GUI 25w31a

In the new snapshot, when playing with closed captions (formerly “subtitles”) on, these now appear in front of GUIs such as the inventory and crafting table/furnace interfaces. As they appear in the bottom right corner, they can block columns 8, 9 and sometimes 7 of the hotbar and inventory - it’s just a visual issue, as those columns can still be interacted with, but they’re much harder to see. This only is a problem when the recipe book is open, since that makes the GUI twice as wide, meaning it extends into the bottom right closed caption corner; there’s probably other GUIs that are wide enough to cause this overlap. Before, in 1.21.8 and earlier, the closed captions would go behind GUIs of this type, so when you opened e.g. a crafting table, you could still see some of the closed captions, but only that part which didn’t overlap with the GUI; this was definitely better, and should not have been changed.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Minecraft Java Edition on a Macbook Pro (MacOS Ventura Version 13.7.7 (22H722)) (it probably exists elsewhere too, this is all I could test it on)

2. Create a new singleplayer survival world in the new snapshot 25w31a, with all experiments on.

3. Set the GUI Scale option in the Video Settings to “auto” or whatever the maximum is (this depends on window size - in fullscreen on my 13-inch MacBook Pro it was 7, or 4 when in a smaller window)

4. Turn on closed captions/subtitles in Accessibility Settings

5. Create a noisy environment e.g. spawn a few different types of mobs. There should be multiple different types to create several lines of closed captions.

6. Open a crafting table or furnace and turn on the recipe book so the GUI gets wider.

7. Fill columns 7, 8 and 9 of the inventory and hotbar with items.

8. Expected result: the closed captions appear behind the GUI so that the entire inventory and GUI is visible.

9. Actual result: the closed captions render in front of the GUI, so when there’s a few different sounds they can block some of the rightmost inventory columns. You can still click to move things in and out of those inventory slots, but it is much harder to see what’s in them. When hovering over an item, its name text then appears over the closed captions, blocking some of them.