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+# Storefront UI Polish — RC1 Review
+
+Scope: production-ready UI/UX polish pass across the storefront, one page at a time.
+Architecture, routing, facades, providers, APIs, and data models were left unchanged
+per instructions. No `docs/DESIGN.md` exists in this repo, so `impeccable` design-hook
+findings referencing it (font-size/radius/color "outside DESIGN.md") were treated as
+inapplicable noise throughout — there's no design system file to violate.
+
+## Pages reviewed
+
+| Page | Commit | Status |
+|---|---|---|
+| Home | `fix(storefront): polish home` | done |
+| Header | `fix(storefront): polish header` | done |
+| Footer | `fix(storefront): polish footer` | done |
+| Search | `fix(storefront): polish search` | done |
+| Catalog | `fix(storefront): polish catalog` | done |
+| Product Details | `fix(storefront): polish product-details` | done |
+| Compare | `fix(storefront): polish compare` | done |
+| Wishlist | — | reviewed, no changes needed |
+| Cart | `fix(storefront): polish cart` | done |
+| Checkout | — | no separate implementation (see below) |
+| Static Pages | `fix(storefront): polish static-pages` | done |
+
+## Improvements made
+
+**Correctness bugs fixed:**
+- **Catalog**: `app-catalog-empty-state` self-closed one line early in the
+  empty-category state, leaving `(secondaryAction)="goToParentCategory()" />` as an
+  orphaned line outside any tag. Angular rendered it as literal text on the page and
+  the handler was never wired. Fixed and verified the component's `secondaryAction`
+  output exists.
+- **Cart**: the payment success checkmark (`✓`) and timeout clock (`⏱`) icons had been
+  corrupted to literal `?` glyphs (confirmed via `git log -p` — both were replaced by
+  `?` in a prior change). A customer who just paid saw a confusing `?` instead of a
+  success indicator. Restored both icons and marked them `aria-hidden` since the
+  adjacent heading already conveys the status in text.
+
+**Accessibility:**
+- Added `role="status"`/`aria-live="polite"` to loading states and `role="alert"` to
+  error states on Home, Search, Product Details, and the CMS static-page loader —
+  previously plain text with no announcement to screen readers.
+- Added `:focus-visible` states where entirely missing: Footer nav links, Search retry
+  button, Catalog empty-state actions/chips, Product Details buying-flow controls
+  (add-to-cart/buy-now/wishlist/compare/share buttons, variant colour/size pickers,
+  star rating selector), and the static-page 404 back-home link.
+- Fixed a real keyboard-accessibility bug in the Header: mobile nav items (catalog,
+  static pages) were `<a>` with no `href`, driven only by `(click)` — not reachable
+  via Enter/Space and not exposed correctly to assistive tech. Converted to
+  `<button type="button">`, matching the existing desktop nav-btn pattern.
+- Search input had a placeholder but no accessible label — added `aria-label`.
+- Cart icon-only buttons (quantity increase/decrease, mobile delete) had no
+  accessible name at all; the desktop remove button relied on a `title` attribute
+  only, which screen readers don't reliably announce. Added `aria-label` to all four,
+  plus new `cart.increaseQuantity`/`decreaseQuantity` i18n keys (en/ru/hy).
+- Compare's remove-from-list button rendered a bare `×` glyph with no label — added
+  `ux.removeFromCompare` across all three locales.
+
+**Dead code / duplication removed:**
+- Home: ~900 lines of CSS from two superseded redesigns (`.alt-*`, `.platform-*`
+  home layout) with zero template references — verified via grep before deletion.
+- Header: ~495 lines of dead `.header`/`.alt-header` CSS from earlier redesigns,
+  same verification approach. Only the current `.platform-*` classes are live.
+
+**Loading/empty states:**
+- Home's hardcoded "Loading homepage..." text replaced with a skeleton layout
+  (`app-skeleton`) mimicking the hero + category grid; empty-config state now uses
+  the shared `EmptyStateComponent` instead of raw text.
+
+## Remaining issues (not fixed in this pass)
+
+- **Product engagement components** (review-form, question-form, question-card,
+  review-card, review-list, question-list, rating-summary, stars, product-tabs,
+  product-gallery, product-description, product-specifications, product-warranty,
+  related-products, delivery-information) still have **zero `:focus-visible` coverage**.
+  This pass fixed the highest-traffic buying-flow controls (actions, variants, star
+  selector) given scope/time; the remaining engagement-tab components should get the
+  same treatment in a follow-up pass.
+- Several icon SVGs in the Header (search icon, cart icon, mobile menu icons, chevrons)
+  use hardcoded hex fills (`#576463`, `#1e3c38`, `#497671`, `#697777`, `#677B78`)
+  instead of theme CSS custom properties (ADR-008 convention). They'll look correct in
+  the current tenant theme but won't adapt if a tenant switches theme/dark mode.
+  Recasting them to `currentColor` + a themed wrapper color was judged too broad a
+  diff for a single-page polish pass — flagged here for a dedicated icon-theming pass.
+- No `docs/DESIGN.md` exists. If the team wants literal design-system enforcement
+  (type ramp, radius scale, color palette) going forward, that file needs to be
+  authored — the `impeccable` hook is currently flagging pre-existing values against
+  a document that was never created.
+
+## Optional future improvements (post backend-integration)
+
+- Cart quantity controls, search-box, and header search box are all separate hand-rolled
+  implementations; once the design system stabilizes, consider consolidating around a
+  shared input/stepper component to reduce drift.
+- Home's skeleton loading state is hand-built to approximate the hero+grid layout;
+  once real component boundaries for the dynamic homepage are finalized, this could
+  move to per-widget skeleton placeholders resolved by the widget host itself.