a11y: fix Welcome/Home dashboard contrast for WCAG AA (#565) - #609
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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk:⚪ Minimal · up to This change migrates unsupported appearance presets to the standard default while preserving Writer’s Sepia selections, improves reduced-motion behavior, and adds deterministic Sepia accessibility coverage. No merge-blocking current behavior risk remains. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The PR adds appearance-state handling and regression coverage, but it does not fix the failing contrast tokens or dashboard components. It provides no evidence that serious or critical Axe violations are zero or that affected text reaches 4.5:1 in Chromium CI. Resolution Implement the contrast correction at the appropriate shared token or component authority. Run deterministic Chromium Axe scans across supported appearance states. Confirm zero serious or critical violations and at least 4.5:1 contrast for affected normal text without weakening Axe rules, thresholds, or retries.
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Reviewer's guide (collapsed on small PRs)Reviewer's GuideThis draft PR currently contains only documentation housekeeping: it trims the CLAUDE.md directory map and does not yet implement or verify the reported Welcome/Home dashboard contrast fix. The accessibility investigation remains pending fresh Playwright/axe evidence from CI, with the suspected issue involving composited backgrounds rather than a simple semantic-token mismatch. File-Level Changes
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This PR performs documentation housekeeping by trimming the verbose Directory map section in CLAUDE.md. The changes correctly condense 37 lines of deeply nested sub-directory details into 14 concise lines, while preserving all essential structural information. The detailed sub-directory information is already documented in the respective nested CLAUDE.md files referenced later in the document (lines 297-308), avoiding duplication.
The trimmed section maintains:
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- References to where detailed information lives (nested CLAUDE.md files)
- Critical architectural notes (worker generation, vendor forks, locale counts)
No functional changes or defects identified. This cleanup improves maintainability by reducing documentation duplication.
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Product decision: new sessions now start on the standard preset instead of Writer's Sepia. Kept settingsSlice.ts and idbProjectStore.ts's normalization fallback in sync (the exact consistency #332 already required). Audited every test referencing appearancePreset for hidden reliance on the old default rather than explicit setup — found and fixed two: the "dark sepia theme" a11y test relied on sepia being the ambient default rather than selecting it, which would have silently started testing plain dark theme instead of dark-sepia; now explicitly selects Writer's Sepia via the real Settings UI. A normalization test's "preserves explicit override" case used 'default' as its override input, which no longer demonstrates an override once 'default' is the default; now uses 'sepia'. Also fixed unrelated pre-existing drift caught in the same area: Design-System.md still listed the fantasy/romance presets removed in v1.22. Note: VRT baselines (home.png etc.) were captured under the old default and will need regenerating from a real CI diff in a follow-up commit.
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The plain 'welcome' test only covers the ambient default now that appearancePreset's default changed away from sepia, silently losing coverage of the exact light+sepia combination in the original #565 evidence. Deterministically sets colorScheme:'light', explicitly selects Writer's Sepia, verifies .light-theme+.appearance-sepia are both applied, then scans the Dashboard with the unchanged serious/critical axe gate — never relies on default or persistence.
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In `@docs/Design-System.md`:
- Line 61: Update the remaining Fantasy and Romance preset references near the
design-system preset descriptions, including the sections corresponding to the
documented earlier and later references, so they no longer describe those
presets as supported and the documented preset list consistently reflects their
removal.
In `@features/settings/settingsSlice.ts`:
- Line 47: In features/settings/settingsSlice.ts lines 47-47, add a one-line
QNBS-v3 rationale explaining why new sessions use appearancePreset default; in
tests/unit/settingsSlice.test.ts lines 19-19, add a one-line QNBS-v3 rationale
explaining why the initial-state expectation is default. Use the required “Grund
/ Impact / Kreativer Mehrwert” format at both sites.
In `@services/storage/idbProjectStore.ts`:
- Around line 273-274: Update the transaction.onabort handler used by
saveProject and saveSettings so an abort without transaction.error rejects with
a retry-classifiable DOMException matching retryDb’s transient-name handling.
Add a regression test covering an abort with no transaction error and verify the
operation retries.
In `@tests/e2e/a11y.spec.ts`:
- Line 139: Replace both fixed 500 ms waits following clickNavItem in the
accessibility tests with an assertion that the dashboard has rendered, using the
projectTitle locator and a 15-second visibility timeout before running Axe.
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…BS-v3 comments, axe wait determinism Removes the two remaining Fantasy/Romance mentions in Design-System.md left over from the single-preset correction, adds the required QNBS-v3 rationale comments to the appearancePreset default-change sites, and replaces both fixed 500ms sleeps before the Dashboard axe scans with an explicit #projectTitle visibility wait so the scan can't run against a not-yet-mounted lazy-loaded view.
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Disposition: CodeAnt "1 code suggestion" nitpick ( Verified against This is also not an accidental gap: PR #517 explicitly reviewed this exact spot when introducing the Whether the intended contract is "≤1 snapshot start per 5 min" (current code is correct) or "≥5 min after completion" (current code under-waits by the snapshot's own duration) is a real product decision, not a slam-dunk bug — and not one to make inside a WCAG/appearance-default PR. Filed as #611 to track separately. No code change here. |
…e change CI's now-repaired VRT (PR #610) correctly flagged 13,391 pixels of diff (2%, over the 12,000-pixel cap) between the old baseline and this branch's render. Downloaded and visually compared the CI-generated expected/actual pair: layout, text, icons, and positions are pixel-identical — only the color palette differs (warm sepia → cool default), exactly the intentional appearancePreset default change this PR makes. Updated the baseline from the real CI-captured screenshot, not a local re-render. home/characters/settings baselines already passed unchanged — their appearance-driven color exposure apparently falls under the diff threshold, which needed no action.
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…s the cascade (#565) The @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) override for .aurora-blob and .animate-in was declared BEFORE their unconditional base rules. With equal selector specificity and no cascade layers in this file, CSS resolves ties by source order — so the later, unconditional base rules always won, regardless of the media query. Reduced motion never actually froze the Aurora background blobs (continuous 25s float animation) or the dashboard cards' staggered fade-in (opacity 0→1, delayed per --index), for any user, including those who explicitly requested it. Evidence: PR #609's new Light+Sepia/Dark+Sepia Dashboard axe tests failed with color-contrast violations whose fgColor/bgColor/contrastRatio swung wildly between retries of the identical, static (zero-value) project state — e.g. the "Worlds" stat label measured 2.38:1 in one run and 1.71:1 in another. That volatility is the signature of axe sampling a still-animating page (backdrop-blur compositing a continuously moving Aurora blob; cards mid-fade), not a stable token-contrast defect — confirmed by tracing both class rules' source order against the override. Moving the override after both base rules lets it win as intended, so prefers-reduced-motion: reduce now actually produces an instantly static render. This is expected to resolve the observed axe flakiness/failures as a side effect; the CI run on this commit is the evidence for whether any residual, non-animation-driven contrast gap remains.
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…also AA-compliant The reduced-motion cascade fix (previous commit) only proved the reduced-motion path is now deterministic and AA-compliant. Most users don't have prefers-reduced-motion set, so the actual end state they see — after the staggered fade-in animations finish normally — needs its own axe scan rather than being assumed identical.
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* chore(release): bump version to v1.28.4 Patch release reconciling release-truth documentation with everything merged to main since v1.28.3 (62 commits / ~40 PRs, audited against live GitHub state, not assumed from commit subjects): - fix: PWA first-install unprompted reload (#585, PR #613) - fix: shared-origin service-worker cache-read isolation (#514, PR #612) - fix: Factory Reset could reboot into Settings instead of Welcome Portal (PR #592) - fix: preserve-first desktop corruption recovery (PR #542) and a distinct filesystem-I/O recovery action (PR #545) - fix: intentionally cleared project metadata no longer reappears (PR #546) - a11y: Welcome/Home dashboard WCAG AA contrast + reduced-motion cascade fix + default appearance preset change (#565, PR #609); ManuscriptEditor contrast (PR #560) - security: fflate ZIP64-parsing DoS override (PR #595); routine dependency floor bumps (PR #587, #561, #562, #594) - docs: R-15 secure desktop storage design contract admitted (PRs #564, #580, #581, #582, #584) — design only, no implementation yet - tests: visual regression testing repaired — baselines were directory listings, not the application (PR #610); IDB reset-quiescence hardening (PR #596); WelcomePortal E2E navigation made locale-independent (PR #590) Everything classified as pure internal/CI-governance churn (PR-size exception plumbing, dual-graph tooling, toolchain pins) is omitted from CHANGELOG.md as non-user-facing. Version bumped via the existing sync scripts (sync-tauri-version.mjs, sync-sw-version.mjs) across package.json, src-tauri/Cargo.toml, src-tauri/tauri.conf.json, src-tauri/Cargo.lock, AGENTS.md, and public/sw.js's APP_VERSION. CHANGELOG.md and README.md use the established release-candidate marker convention (<!-- release-candidate: v1.28.4 -->) so the dated entry and version badge are truthful before the v1.28.4 tag exists; both markers are removed in a follow-up post-release truth-sync once the tag and GitHub Release are published, matching the v1.28.2/v1.28.3 precedent. TODO.md's Current Sprint section was archived (its final "release cut remains open" bullet is now resolved — v1.28.2 and v1.28.3 both shipped) and replaced with the actual current sprint: this release cut followed by the R-15 desktop at-rest encryption priority program. AUDIT.md is intentionally not touched here — its release-gate entry requires real post-merge CI/CodeQL run evidence that doesn't exist until after this PR merges and the tag is cut, matching how every prior release's AUDIT.md entry was written (a follow-up commit, not part of the release-prep PR itself). * docs(release): correct premature done-marker on the v1.28.4 TODO item TODO.md's Current Sprint marked the release cut as done (checked 'v1.28.4' release cut, reconciling ... AUDIT.md truth ...) while this same PR's own Non-goals section correctly states AUDIT.md is not touched here, and while no tag, GitHub Release, or release artifacts exist yet. Corrected to in-progress language naming PR #615 directly and listing what actually remains pending (tag, release, artifacts, post-release AUDIT.md evidence). * docs(release): correct R-15 gate language and credit PR #596's real fix Two corrections from review, verified against live evidence before fixing: 1. TODO.md's Current Sprint claimed R-15 desktop at-rest encryption implementation was being prioritized now. docs/native/DESKTOP- MIGRATION-ROADMAP-REV3.md explicitly forbids pulling Wave 3/4 R-15 implementation ahead of unresolved Wave 2 authority prerequisites, and CORE-MIGRATION-LEDGER.md row 10 records S5_IMPLEMENTATION_READY=NO. Corrected to state R-15 design is complete but implementation stays gated behind the still-open Wave 2 prerequisite (ledger row 9: the project state-shape compatibility adapter), which is what this sprint's desktop-storage work actually is. 2. CHANGELOG.md listed PR #596 only as generic IDB test hardening under Tests. Verified against its actual diff: deleteDatabase() previously resolved on a genuine onerror or an onblocked event as if deletion succeeded, so wipeAllAppData() could report Factory Reset complete while a database was never actually deleted. onerror now rejects; onblocked waits for the connection to close before giving up. This is a real production data-integrity fix, not test hardening, and now has its own Fixed entry.
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Status: root cause found and fixed, evidence attached
Fixes#565.
Root cause
index.css's@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)override for.aurora-blob(continuous 25s background float) and.animate-in(the Dashboard's staggered card fade-in) was declared before those classes' own unconditional base rules. With equal selector specificity and no cascade layers in this file, CSS resolves ties by source order — so the later, unconditional base rules always won. Reduced motion never actually froze either animation, for any user, including those who explicitly requested it.This matches the original issue's own observation that "the exact failing nodes vary between retries": axe was sampling a page whose background was still perpetually animating (Aurora) and whose Dashboard cards were still mid-fade, producing different composited colors on every scan. It also explains why the flat semantic-token pairs in
index.csswere already correctly verified AA-compliant on their own — the defect was never in a static color value.Fix
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)block to after both base rules, so it actually wins the cascade as originally intended.appearancePresetswitched fromsepiatodefaultfor new sessions (explicit Sepia selections are preserved), with matching persisted-settings migration and updated unit tests.Evidence
color-contrastviolations whose fgColor/bgColor/contrastRatio swung significantly between retries of the identical, static (zero-value) project state — e.g. the "Worlds" stat label measured 2.38:1 in one run and 1.71:1 in another for the same DOM node.bf03c783), alongside a full green run (CI Success, CodeQL, Browser Quality/VRT+Lighthouse).Summary by Sourcery
Stabilize dashboard accessibility behavior and standardize the default appearance preset.
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Makes reduced motion actually freeze the Aurora background and dashboard card animations so the Welcome/Home dashboard renders statically, resolving the flaky contrast violations from #565. Also switches the default appearance preset from Sepia to standard
defaultfor new sessions.Behavior changes
prefers-reduced-motionoverride now wins the cascade, so.aurora-bloband.animate-instop animating when reduced motion is requested.default; legacy invalid stored values migrate todefault, and explicitsepiais preserved.Migration
writer.pngbaseline was regenerated from the CI-captured render; the home/characters/settings baselines passed unchanged.Written for commit bf03c78. Summary will update on new commits.
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Use the standard appearance by default and verify dashboard accessibility across themes
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✅ Standard appearance for new sessions✅ Reliable reduced-motion behavior✅ Verified light and dark Sepia dashboards💡 Usage Guide
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