RC A11Y-01 audit pass, storefront + shared app-shell chrome only. Builds
on RC-Visual-02/RC-Premium-01/RC STORE-01 without redoing that work.
- Skip link: added first-focusable "skip to main content" link (app.html,
styles.scss .skip-link/.sr-only), targeting new #main-content landmark.
New app.skipToContent i18n key in en/ru/hy.
- Header: mobile menu items stayed keyboard-focusable and screen-reader
reachable while visually collapsed (max-height:0 with no visibility
toggle) - fixed with visibility:hidden + matched transition-delay.
Desktop search input (readonly, click-to-navigate) had no keyboard
activation - added aria-label + (keydown.enter).
- Cart payment/bank-payment modals: custom (non-app-dialog) UI had no
focus trap, no Escape handling, and never returned focus to the
triggering element - ported app-dialog's confirmed-correct
focus-trap/Escape/return-focus pattern directly onto cart.component.ts.
Added role="dialog"/aria-modal/aria-label to both panels and
role="status"|"alert"/aria-live to every payment-status screen so
screen readers announce state changes (creating/waiting/success/
error/timeout).
- Search combobox: suggestion listbox had no role="combobox" wiring on
the input and suggestion buttons weren't role="option" - added
aria-autocomplete, aria-controls, aria-activedescendant, aria-selected
so the existing arrow-key navigation is announced to screen readers.
- Product tabs: tablist/tab pattern was incomplete (no role="tablist",
no tabpanel) - added role="tablist" + ids to product-tabs.component,
role="tabpanel"/aria-labelledby to the content panel in
product-details-container.
- Review form: rating/text validation errors weren't associated with
their controls (no aria-describedby, no role="alert") - fixed; added
aria-required to the review textarea.
- delivery-selector: added aria-required to the delivery <select> when
a selection is mandatory.
- Shared app-icon component: doc comment claimed "decorative by default
(aria-hidden)" but no aria-hidden was ever applied - fixed to actually
set aria-hidden="true" when undecorated, and role="img"/aria-label
when ariaLabel is passed. Shared component, affects every icon-only
usage app-wide, no visual change.
- Color contrast: --text-light fails WCAG AA 4.5:1 for normal text in
every theme (dexar 3.39:1, lavero/novo 2.54:1 against white). The two
in-scope usages (company-details org-short/basis, review-form
upload-placeholder) switched to --text-secondary (4.55:1-7.56:1,
passes), same visual family, no layout change.
Flagged, not fixed (design-system decisions, not polish):
- --border-color fails WCAG 1.4.11 3:1 for UI-component boundaries in
every theme (dexar 1.42:1, lavero/novo 1.24:1 vs white) - pervasive
token used by hundreds of borders app-wide; needs theme-owner sign-off.
- --success-color/--warning-color/--error-color/--info-color used as
plain text-on-white in several places (product-information,
question-card, review-form, compare-page) fail 4.5:1 (2.15-3.76:1) -
genuine brand semantic colors, changing them to pass would visibly
shift the palette; needs a deliberate token decision.
- Header mobile-menu max-height/padding transition (pre-existing,
unrelated to this fix) flagged by design lint as layout-thrashing;
left as-is per the "no layout/business-logic changes" constraint.
Verified: npx tsc --noEmit clean; npm run build green (only the
pre-existing bundle-budget warning, unrelated to this pass).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
