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From: Christian Cleberg <hello@cleberg.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:01:05 -0500
Subject: feat(a11y): engage the audit enforcement ratchet (#21)
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The point of the Phase 0 harness finally lands: named findings in
textClipped, dynamicType, hitRegion, elementDetection,
sufficientElementDescription, and trait now FAIL the build on the
empty-state suite. Regressions in five phases of accessibility work are
gated, not narrated.

Three carve-outs, each earned by evidence rather than convenience:

- contrast stays report-only. The two long-standing Settings findings are
  rows scrolled under the translucent tab bar, and their attribution
  flips between a row name and nil run-to-run — no suppression is narrow
  enough to keep CI stable. The centralised palette is the real guard.
- The seeded dense-row tests run reportOnly. Bisection showed the audit
  degrades on children-ignored content — the correct VoiceOver treatment
  for dense rows — emitting unattributed contrast/dynamicType failures on
  rows that measure 6-7:1 and render correctly.
- Characterised noise is suppressed narrowly and always logged as
  [noise: reason]: disabled controls (WCAG 1.4.3 exempt), "nearly passed"
  near-misses, system field placeholders (flagged at any length — proven
  by shortening them to no effect), and unattributed clipped/dynamic-type
  artifacts. noiseReason(for:) records each rule's provenance inline.

Validated in both directions. Positive: the full 11-test suite passes
with enforcement live, dark and light, on an erased simulator. Negative:
re-injecting the Phase 3 icon-exposure regression produced two named
[FAIL] findings and a failed suite — on both screens sharing the
component — then went green again on revert.

Docs and the CI workflow comment updated to describe the engaged state.
---
 DomainDigUITests/AccessibilityAuditTests.swift | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'DomainDigUITests/AccessibilityAuditTests.swift')

diff --git a/DomainDigUITests/AccessibilityAuditTests.swift b/DomainDigUITests/AccessibilityAuditTests.swift
index 0863d32..0a8f457 100644
--- a/DomainDigUITests/AccessibilityAuditTests.swift
+++ b/DomainDigUITests/AccessibilityAuditTests.swift
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ final class AccessibilityAuditTests: XCTestCase {
     func testSeededDashboard() throws {
         let app = AccessibilityAuditHarness.launch(seeded: true)
         app.selectRootTab("Dashboard")
-        let audited = try AccessibilityAuditHarness.audit(app, screen: "seeded-dashboard", test: self)
+        let audited = try AccessibilityAuditHarness.audit(app, screen: "seeded-dashboard", test: self, reportOnly: true)
         try XCTSkipUnless(audited, "Audit did not complete in time for seeded Dashboard")
     }
 
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ final class AccessibilityAuditTests: XCTestCase {
         let trackedDomains = app.buttons["Tracked Domains"]
         XCTAssertTrue(trackedDomains.waitForExistence(timeout: 5))
         trackedDomains.tap()
-        let audited = try AccessibilityAuditHarness.audit(app, screen: "seeded-tracked-domains", test: self)
+        let audited = try AccessibilityAuditHarness.audit(app, screen: "seeded-tracked-domains", test: self, reportOnly: true)
         try XCTSkipUnless(audited, "Audit did not complete in time for seeded Tracked Domains")
     }
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ final class AccessibilityAuditTests: XCTestCase {
     func testSeededBatchResults() throws {
         let app = AccessibilityAuditHarness.launch(seeded: true)
         app.selectRootTab("Inspect")
-        let audited = try AccessibilityAuditHarness.audit(app, screen: "seeded-batch", test: self)
+        let audited = try AccessibilityAuditHarness.audit(app, screen: "seeded-batch", test: self, reportOnly: true)
         try XCTSkipUnless(audited, "Audit did not complete in time for seeded batch results")
     }
 
@@ -123,12 +123,12 @@ final class AccessibilityAuditTests: XCTestCase {
         var unaudited: [String] = []
 
         app.selectRootTab("Dashboard")
-        if try !AccessibilityAuditHarness.audit(app, screen: "seeded-dashboard-accessibilityXXXL", test: self) {
+        if try !AccessibilityAuditHarness.audit(app, screen: "seeded-dashboard-accessibilityXXXL", test: self, reportOnly: true) {
             unaudited.append("Dashboard")
         }
 
         app.selectRootTab("Inspect")
-        if try !AccessibilityAuditHarness.audit(app, screen: "seeded-batch-accessibilityXXXL", test: self) {
+        if try !AccessibilityAuditHarness.audit(app, screen: "seeded-batch-accessibilityXXXL", test: self, reportOnly: true) {
             unaudited.append("Inspect batch")
         }
 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ final class AccessibilityAuditTests: XCTestCase {
         let trackedDomains = app.buttons["Tracked Domains"]
         if trackedDomains.waitForExistence(timeout: 5) {
             trackedDomains.tap()
-            if try !AccessibilityAuditHarness.audit(app, screen: "seeded-tracked-domains-accessibilityXXXL", test: self) {
+            if try !AccessibilityAuditHarness.audit(app, screen: "seeded-tracked-domains-accessibilityXXXL", test: self, reportOnly: true) {
                 unaudited.append("Tracked Domains")
             }
         }
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