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Phase 8 browser verification — 2026-10-15 UTC

Checkpoint preparation — 2026-10-15: The exact checkpoint manifest records final revalidation (156 tests, including Library 53), current publication metrics, preserved release gates and the source-matching 18:21 offline report. The badge correction supersedes the earlier white-background derivative and its captures/hash. Current Spanish artwork preserves original geometry/alpha outside the APROBADO lettering. Earlier browser failures, capture results and file counts below are dated history; they are not the latest technical state. Checkpoint preparation is now authorized; no staging, commit, production activation or human approval has occurred.

Consolidated continuation — 2026-10-15: Consolidated follow-up records the Spanish HSA/FSA localization carryover, Spanish privacy collection-heading carryover, and Tour carousel correction. Final validation: 156 regression tests, 21 targeted Chromium checks plus two computed-contrast probes, 122-route static smoke, 50 new hashed screenshot references, unchanged publication counts and restored staging safeguards. PHASE 8 TECHNICALLY READY FOR CHECKPOINT REVIEW; all human-review/Phase 9 gates remain open. Historical results below are preserved.

Latest bounded follow-up: PHASE 8 TECHNICALLY READY FOR CHECKPOINT REVIEW. See the follow-up below. This supersedes the initial technical disposition without asserting human acceptance. Earlier observations, counts and the initial partial status below remain historical.

PHASE 8 PARTIALLY VERIFIED — MANUAL OR ENVIRONMENT GATES REMAIN

The browser transport gate is now resolved for the system Chromium in this environment. This status retains manual acceptance gates; it does not imply that browser automation is still unavailable. No human acceptance, release approval, staging, commit, deployment or Phase 9 implementation is asserted.

Baseline and environment

Branch faithful-astro-migration, HEAD 8e64d322092b1fa6e0f648ddf26a665c80588198, parent b5bc95bc2b8e36c58e8b4d8ab4b11391374a7883. This continuation began with the previously authorized Phase 8 CSS, reports, browser tools and environment changes already unstaged. The index was empty. The five protected/excluded paths were observed by pathname only and left untouched. The old Phase 7 staging aid was already absent; this verification did not delete it.

Read the project policy, living handoff and preceding migration/acceptance records. The October 14 report records the earlier static-only attempt; the observations here supersede its browser-unavailable status without rewriting that historical attempt.

Node 24.18.0, npm 11.16.0, Astro 7.1.5, Linux x86_64; existing Playwright 1.61.0 with system Chromium 151.0.7922.75, headless, browser sandbox enabled. System Chrome 151.0.7922.108 also passed the preceding two-page transport probe, but the full suite used Chromium. Existing module/executable paths were supplied through a temporary PLAYWRIGHT_MODULE adapter. No dependency was installed/upgraded. This does not establish successful realization of the optional Nix browser shell or repair the earlier remote MCP transport.

Preview bound only to 127.0.0.1:4321. The real Spanish privacy page was checked for title, visible H1, URL and staging robots; a screenshot and subsequent homepage navigation succeeded before the suite. Desktop 1440×900 and mobile 390×844, DPR 1, fresh contexts, default zoom, font readiness and bounded image decoding. Additional 320px/768px checks and a computed 200% text-size stress test are identified separately; that stress test is not actual browser zoom acceptance.

Safety and external resources

Request interception was installed before navigation: only GET/HEAD to the exact loopback origin could proceed. External requests and other methods were aborted; WebSockets were closed, service workers blocked, downloads disabled, and no existing authenticated browser profile/cookies imported. No production API, form backend, tracking, conversion, payment or authentication interaction occurred. No production API attempt was observed. This proves these loopback sessions; it does not establish safe API behavior on a hosted preview.

Leaflet CSS/JavaScript requests to unpkg were attempted and blocked. Contact therefore shows an empty map area; address/contact text and localized labels remain visible. No OpenStreetMap tiles loaded because Leaflet was unavailable. Actual map operation remains a controlled-resource review, not a failed attempt to contact production. Expected blocked-resource console errors are separated from application exceptions. External links were not followed.

An isolated synthetic fixture reused the disabled Spanish form markup with empty fields. Calling the native form submit() method attempted a POST to the fixture URL; interception aborted it before any server request. This is a prevented submission, not proof of application-level isolation. It confirms why P9-03 must remain open. No real form was submitted and no personal, patient or clinical test data was entered. Forms/actions/backend behavior remain unchanged.

Coverage and evidence interpretation

The primary suite opened every one of 122 routes at desktop and 50 representative routes at mobile: 172 enabled-JavaScript visits, 100 full-page captures (50 per width), plus a separate transport screenshot. All 50 representatives also loaded in a JavaScript-disabled context. Six twelve-Tab observation sequences provide 72 exploratory Tab records; these are not 72 independently accepted controls.

The representative set covers every requested page family: EN/ES home, service, program, intake, contact, consultation and privacy pages; referrals, about/team, FAQ; EN/ES/AR indexes and authors; both page-six archives; search; rewritten articles/tables/diagrams; Spanish evaluation/reinforcement/self-advocacy; Arabic first/then and reinforcement; client forms, employee portal, careers, insurance, donation and tour. Exact route membership is recorded in the matrix/evidence.

No page overflow, missing capture image or uncaught page exception was detected in the primary 1440/390 suite. Three mobile image-boundary candidates are the deliberately scrollable Arabic diagrams, not page overflow. Hidden carousel slides similarly require contextual interpretation of geometric clipping tests. The later 320px check found a separate homepage defect, corrected below.

Full-page captures are evidence for review, not 100 completed source-fidelity approvals. Agent inspection included full-page overview sheets of services, forms, privacy, about/team, Library/author archives and special pages; native-size home/contact samples, ABA desktop and the three actual browser-rendered diagrams. Long-article overview sheets establish section continuity only, not line-by-line typography or linguistic accuracy. Screenshot capture is distinguished from actual visual inspection and from authorized human acceptance.

No fresh HubSpot crawl or insecure TLS retrieval was performed. Existing dated source evidence remains qualified. The saved ABA source screenshot contains a modal and earlier content, limiting direct comparison. No claim of current origin freshness or complete pixel parity across the 50 representatives is made. Spanish privacy still requires trusted-source comparison and legal approval.

Interactions, semantics and progressive enhancement

Focused tests exercise real keyboard skip links, desktop submenu focus, mobile and language disclosures with Escape/focus return, FAQ Enter/Space, all three locale searches/results/no-results/reset, Arabic diagram arrow scrolling, page-six boundaries, full-size play/leisure image navigation and browser Back, four picky-eating fragments, disabled Spanish form markup, and no-JS disclosures. Search uses nonsensitive terms and verifies locale-scoped results and polite live-region markup; no screen-reader announcement is claimed.

FAQ checks initially asserted state before the existing 360ms animation finished; waiting for the native open state resolved these test timing failures. The initial image-link selector expected WebP rather than the existing PNG and was corrected. No application behavior was changed for either test error. A first capture attempt stalled on hidden lazy image decode(); readiness is now bounded and missing images recorded rather than hanging indefinitely.

The service drawer opened after its actual delay with focus on its heading. Escape closed it and restored prior focus. During forward Tab cycling Chromium reported BODY at the native browser-chrome boundary, then the dialog and its controls; no background page control received focus. This is Review required, not a strict focus-containment pass or a proven trapping defect. An authorized visible-browser/assistive-technology reviewer must assess that transition.

The all-route custom Cheerio audit passes 122 routes with two inherited heading review warnings. Chromium's accessibility tree was inspected for Spanish form control names/disabled state and Arabic headings/named regions. That is semantic evidence, not a real screen reader. No axe engine or complete WCAG audit ran. Real screen-reader sessions: 0. Authorized human sign-offs: 0.

JavaScript-disabled checks establish content and basic native disclosure access. Three focused no-JS routes also test keyboard interaction. Contact obfuscation's existing reversed-string fallback remains intentional; no change was made. Actual map interaction, all no-JS workflows and browser zoom remain reviewer gates.

Bounded corrections and issue disposition

ID	Severity / disposition	Evidence, correction and remaining action
P8-BROWSER-001	Verification gate resolved for local Chromium	Real-page transport, subsequent navigation, complete route/capture and interaction runs succeeded. Remote MCP and optional Nix shell are not thereby certified.
P8-A11Y-001 / 002	Corrected; targeted browser checks support prior CSS tests	Earlier prose/FAQ underline and primary-color changes, plus navigation/language/byline/diagram focus outlines retained. Wider palette/state review still pending.
P8-A11Y-006	Major; corrected	Browser-computed skip/contact/form-notice links remained orange #ff914d on white (2.23:1). Existing primary #254080 (9.89:1 on white) and persistent underlines now apply in layout.css, forms.css, ContactForm and ContactPage. Skip focus receives a primary outline. No wording, destination, contact component or submission behavior changed.
P8-VIS-002	Major narrow-screen reflow defect; corrected	At 320px the homepage director section expanded document width to 382px: scoped two-column grid overrode shared ≤760px stacking. HomeDirector now explicitly uses one minmax(0,1fr) column at the existing breakpoint and bounds the signature to container width. Desktop ratio/content remain unchanged. EN/ES 320/390/768/1440 regression checks cover the actual cascade.
P8-A11Y-003	Minor; review pending	Existing H1→H3 jumps on DTT/NET and schedule consultation remain. Determine intended hierarchy without casually changing source typography.
P8-A11Y-004	Informational observed degradation	With third-party requests blocked, Contact map area is empty while address/contact remain available. Reviewer checks clarity of fallback; no provider or network changes authorized.
P8-A11Y-007	Review required	Native modal Tab/browser-chrome boundary described above; visible-browser and screen-reader review required before declaring complete containment.
P8-A11Y-008	Minor; localization review pending	Chromium's Arabic accessibility tree still exposes inherited English “Like this article” and “Similar Blog Posts”; BlogPostFooter also contains English previous/next/navigation labels. These are not automatically equivalent to localized accessible names. Confirm source/fallback intent and approve narrowly localized shared labels; no Arabic body/biography or API behavior was changed to hide the finding.
P8-SAFETY-001	Existing Phase 9 limitation confirmed	Disabled/empty-action form is script-submittable in isolated fixture. P9-03 owns fail-closed production form design; no backend or application submission changes here.
P8-RTL-001	Browser rendering/scrolling verified; language approval pending	Three browser-rendered diagrams show Arabic overlays with no detected exposed English labels or clipped Arabic in inspected captures. 390px arrow-key scrolling stays inside named focusable regions, with visible primary outline and no page overflow. Fluent Arabic/clinical approval remains mandatory.
P8-VIS-001 / P8-A11Y-005	Review pending	Current source-qualified full-page comparison, whole-site contrast/states, real browser zoom, visual focus assessment and real AT acceptance remain incomplete. No blanket WCAG claim.

Arabic assets remain unchanged: antecedent-behavior-consequence_ar.svg (800×450), reduce-environmental-distractions_ar.svg (800×450), reinforcement-replacement-behavior_ar.svg (800×533). Actual embedded artwork rendered in Chromium, unlike the earlier renderer workaround. Narrow regions retain a 720px minimum image width, Arabic names/alt text and adjacent textual explanations/tables. Scroll-cropped mobile screenshots are intentional; the keyboard test verifies access to the offscreen content. Causal sequences were not reversed. No clinical, legal or translated wording was changed.

Reproduction and acceptance handoff

See the updated guarded host procedure. From www, after a normal staging build and loopback preview, supply an existing working PLAYWRIGHT_MODULE/browser and use fresh output directories:

node --experimental-strip-types tools/audit-phase8.mjs /tmp/phase8-static.json
node tools/phase8-browser.mjs /tmp/phase8-static.json /tmp/phase8-captures
node tools/phase8-interactions.mjs /tmp/phase8-interactions

The interaction runner's only POST probe is its intercepted synthetic fixture. Do not disable interception or navigate to live APIs. Inspect evidence statuses; process completion does not turn a review item into acceptance.

Reviewer / role	UTC date	Route / state	OS/browser/AT	Viewport / zoom / JS	Result	Evidence / issue
Pending	—	Full-page EN/ES families and rewritten articles	—	1440 / 390, JS on/off	Pending	Compare qualified source captures, crops, typography, tables and footer
Pending	—	Service drawer and shared navigation	—	Keyboard only	Pending	Initial focus, Shift-Tab/browser boundary, Escape/return, visible outline
Pending fluent Arabic + clinical reviewer	—	Arabic guide and three diagrams	—	Desktop / 390, region scrolling	Pending	Labels, causal relationships, bidi, legibility, terminology
Pending fluent Spanish reviewer	—	Forms, privacy, school readiness and reinforcement	—	Desktop / mobile	Pending	Wording, wrapping, notices and language-switch expectations
Pending AT reviewer	—	Navigation, forms, search, FAQs, tables, diagrams	Identify real screen reader/version	Keyboard / screen reader	Pending	Names, roles, announcements, reading order and disabled instructions
Pending visual reviewer	—	Broader palette, text resizing and map fallback	—	Actual 200% browser zoom / reflow	Pending	Remaining contrast states, source hierarchy and fallback clarity

All P9-01–P9-10 remain pending: landing-page ownership, employee portal, forms/API, likes/views isolation, analytics/consent/Ads, clinical/organizational claims, privacy policies/trusted Spanish source, author SEO, hosting/rollback, and production authorization. Phase 10 cutover QA remains separate. The living handoff is unchanged. Nothing was staged, committed, pushed or deployed.

The following final measurements, route matrix and file inventory are generated from the actual saved evidence; screenshots remain temporary, not checkpoint assets or human sign-offs.

Final measurements and automated validation

The post-correction pass rechecked 122/122 routes on the final staging build, with zero uncaught exceptions or horizontal page overflow. Four observed console errors were the deliberately blocked Leaflet resources on EN/ES Contact; no unexplained console error was recorded. Both homepages were recaptured at 1440/390/320: six additional full-page images, of which four supersede their original representative captures. The final 100-image representative set uses those replacements. Two extra 320px full-page images and eight director-region captures support the new reflow correction. Earlier captures are retained only as temporary historical evidence.

All images in the 100-capture primary run completed decoding/loading; no missing capture image was recorded. Computed post-fix skip/contact/form links use rgb(37, 64, 128) with underlines on all five inspected routes. The earlier 2.23:1 orange-on-white observations are preserved in the issue record.

Focused results: 41 checks: 40 pass, 0 fail, 1 review (native drawer boundary). This includes eight actual EN/ES home viewport assertions inside one grouped regression check. Supplementary observations: 12 normal 320/768 route visits, five 200% computed-text stress visits, and three Chromium AX-tree inspections. The initial 320px homepage overflow is superseded by the passing reflow checks; other geometric candidates are offscreen carousel slides. Text stress is not browser zoom, AX inspection is not screen-reader use, and no AT approval exists.

Command / check	Final result
npm run check	97 files; 0 errors, warnings or hints
npm run test:markdown	20 pass
npm run test:publication	33 pass
npm run test:seo	35 pass
npm run test:library	49 pass
npm run test:routes	10 pass
node --test tools/phase8.test.mjs	4 pass
All Node regression tests above	151 pass; 0 fail
npm run build	Pass; 122 HTML routes
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build	Pass; counts below
npm run audit:links	0 broken internal links
npm run audit:images	0 missing mapped page images
npm run audit:blog	0 blog-content failures
Final npm run build	Pass; normal staging restored
node --experimental-strip-types tools/audit-phase8.mjs ...	122 routes; 0 hard failures; 2 heading review warnings
git diff --check	Pass

Suites ran sequentially with TMPDIR=/tmp and ASTRO_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1. Logs: /tmp/aia-phase8-browser-validation-final/. No package or lockfile changes. The temporary-directory workaround is environmental, not an application fix.

Publication metric	Final indexing-enabled / staging
HTML routes / unique canonical targets	122 / 122, both modes
Library / search	74 articles; 55 EN / 12 ES / 7 AR, unchanged
Author archives / redirects	9 / 9, unchanged
Sitemap URLs	108 / 0
Hreflang links / participating routes	180 / 55 in indexing mode; 0 / 0 in staging
Validated translation sets	25, unchanged
Visible/schema FAQ answers / articles	182 / 30, unchanged
Robots	Indexing: 108 index,follow + 14 noindex,follow; staging: all 122 noindex,nofollow
English Library / author page six	Five cards each; valid page-five link; no page seven

Author archives remain self-canonical/noindex,follow/sitemap- and hreflang-excluded in indexing mode. /ar remains unpublished. No redirect activation or integration configuration changed.

Final source-matching offline artifact: route-reconciliation-2026-10-15-offline-05-28-09-425Z.json. Schema 2; 133 dispositions, 122 generated routes, 70 reused historical requests, no new production requests. Source fingerprint: c111017a53534537a5412ea0108264e899d4891f46f723074b470e09a5849759. Explicit read-only verification passed:

npm run audit:routes -- --check --evidence reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-15-offline-05-28-09-425Z.json

The earlier route-reconciliation-2026-10-15-offline.json was generated before the director reflow correction and is superseded intermediate evidence. Preserve it; do not select it automatically for the next checkpoint. The October 14 ...07-32-07-044Z.json report is the historical Phase 8 pre-browser baseline. Neither is the final source match. Historical production sitemap observations (102 URLs in this artifact) are not the 108 indexing-enabled generated sitemap.

Durable and temporary evidence

Compact browser/static/interaction evidence includes the complete route observations, exact capture paths/hashes, focused checks, blocked request records, AX observations and publication counts. No full HTML copies, cookies, browser profiles or traces are stored in Git. Temporary screenshots are not guaranteed to survive; select evidence for durable retention only in a reviewed checkpoint. No screenshot is itself human sign-off.

• Primary 100 captures: /tmp/aia-phase8-browser-2026-10-15-final/.
• Final home captures and all-route recheck: /tmp/aia-phase8-browser-2026-10-15-postfix/.
• Final 41 interaction checks/diagram and director captures: /tmp/aia-phase8-interactions-2026-10-15-postfix/.
• Supplementary viewport/text-size/AX observations: /tmp/aia-phase8-extra-2026-10-15/.
• Visual overview sheets: /tmp/aia-phase8-review-sheets/ (earlier captures; no pixel acceptance implied).

Final route coverage matrix

All rows: final static Pass and final desktop browser smoke Pass. “Capture” means full-page evidence exists; source comparison and human acceptance are Pending. No-JS means content-presence observation, with three focused interaction routes recorded separately. This distinction applies to every row, not only exceptions.

Route	Locale	Desktop smoke	1440/390 full-page captures	390 no-JS	Human acceptance
/	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/aba-therapy	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/aba-therapy-intake-process	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/about	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/ar/library	ar	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/ar/library/aba-school-readiness-guide	ar	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/ar/library/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba	ar	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/ar/library/behavior-management-functions-guide	ar	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/ar/library/executive-functioning-skills-autism	ar	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/ar/library/first-then-cards-autism-transitions	ar	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/ar/library/positive-reinforcement-techniques	ar	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/ar/library/proactive-reactive-aba-strategies-guide	ar	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/autism-evaluations	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/careers	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/client-consultation	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/client-forms	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/contact	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/donate-autism-giveback	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/employee-portal	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/aba-therapy	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/aba-therapy-intake-process	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/autism-evaluations	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/client-consultation	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/contact	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/learner-social-club	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/library	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/library/aba-school-readiness-arizona	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/library/autism-evaluation-diagnosis-arizona-parent-guide	es	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/es/library/autism-evaluation-what-to-expect	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/library/autism-family-self-care-tips	es	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/es/library/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/library/emotional-regulation-aba	es	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/es/library/enhancing-generalization-skills	es	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/es/library/executive-functioning-skills-autism	es	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/es/library/first-then-cards-autism-transitions	es	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/es/library/parents-guide-to-autism-and-aba	es	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/es/library/positive-reinforcement-techniques	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/library/social-pragmatic-communication-autism	es	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/es/privacy-policy	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/services	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/faqs	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/insurance	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/learner-social-club	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/library	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/library/aac-visual-supports-autism	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/aba-school-readiness-arizona	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/library/aba-school-readiness-guide	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/library/aba-therapy-benefits	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/aba-therapy-dtt-net-guide	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/aba-therapy-prompting-parenting-benefits	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/aba-therapy-summer-routine-tips	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/aba-toilet-training-child-autism	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/aia-world-autism-community-day-celebration	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/asd-sensory-friendly-recipe-thanksgiving-pumpkin-cake	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/asd-sensory-friendly-recipes-pancakes	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/autism-after-school-meltdowns	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/autism-back-to-school-transition	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/autism-daily-living-skills-challenges	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/autism-evaluation-diagnosis-arizona-parent-guide	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/autism-evaluation-what-to-expect	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/autism-fall-break-routine-tips-halloween-thanksgiving	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/library/autism-family-self-care-tips	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/autism-friendships-social-play-support	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/autism-social-skills-by-age	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/autism-therapy-rapport-strategies	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/behavior-management-functions-guide	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/behavior-modification-techniques-reinforcement-theory	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/communication-social-skills-autistic-children-guide	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/community-highlight-meet-rula-diab	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/critical-thinking-skills	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/does-aba-therapy-replace-school	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/early-signs-autism-by-age	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/emotional-regulation-aba	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/enhancing-generalization-skills	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/executive-functioning-skills-autism	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/first-then-cards-autism-transitions	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/halloween-and-autism	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/heart-full-of-gratitude	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/how-many-hours-aba-child-need	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/individualized-aba-therapy	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/integrated-aba-model-announcement	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/managing-aggressive-behavior-outbursts	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/meet-rula-diab-bcba	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/new-aia-scottsdale-office	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/new-year-2024-autism-holiday-tips	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/new-year-goals-2023	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/november-2022-aia-update	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/parents-guide-to-autism-and-aba	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/picky-eating-autism-parent-guide	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/library/play-leisure-skills	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/library/positive-reinforcement-techniques	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/proactive-reactive-aba-strategies-guide	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/reduce-behavior-management	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/repetitive-behavior	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/sensory-processing	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/sleep-issues-autistic-children	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/social-pragmatic-communication-autism	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/understanding-autism-support	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/privacy-policy	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/referrals	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/schedule-consultation	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/services	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/team	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/tour	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/library/page/2	es	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/page/2	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/page/3	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/page/4	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/page/5	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/page/6	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/ar/library/author/rula-diab	ar	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/library/author/rula-diab	es	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/es/library/author/rula-diab/page/2	es	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/author/rula-diab	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/library/author/rula-diab/page/2	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/author/rula-diab/page/3	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/author/rula-diab/page/4	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/author/rula-diab/page/5	en	Pass	Not captured	Not tested	Pending
/library/author/rula-diab/page/6	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending
/search	en	Pass	Captured / Captured	Observed	Pending

Final working-tree inventory and stopping point

The cumulative Phase 8 diff includes the earlier CSS/static work and the user-authorized optional browser environment, not just this continuation. This continuation changed five application files (ContactForm, ContactPage, HomeDirector, forms.css and layout.css), extended the contrast/capture tooling, added the focused interaction runner and current browser evidence/report, and updated current Phase 8 documentation. Content records, ContactObfuscation, publication policy, API logic, package/lockfiles, handoff and Phase 9 decisions remain unchanged.

The five protected files below were left untouched and remain outside any future checkpoint. No protected-file contents were read or checksummed:

• merge-plan.md
• www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-11-offline.json
• www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-12-offline.json
• www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-13-offline.json
• www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-13-offline-06-16-06-857Z.json

The newly superseded October 15 unsuffixed reconciliation is separately noted above; it was preserved, not silently included as final evidence. No staging manifest or commit was prepared in this task. Temporary screenshots and browser profiles are outside the repository. The loopback preview is stopped after review.

git status --short --untracked-files=all:

 M AUTONOMOUS-CODEX.md
 M flake.nix
 M www/README.md
 M www/reports/accessibility-audit.md
 M www/reports/migration-summary.md
 M www/src/components/ContactForm.astro
 M www/src/components/FAQAccordion.astro
 M www/src/components/LanguageSwitcher.astro
 M www/src/components/MainNav.astro
 M www/src/components/MobileNav.astro
 M www/src/components/home/HomeDirector.astro
 M www/src/components/pages/ContactPage.astro
 M www/src/layouts/BlogPostLayout.astro
 M www/src/styles/blog.css
 M www/src/styles/forms.css
 M www/src/styles/layout.css
?? merge-plan.md
?? www/reports/phase-8-browser-evidence-2026-10-15.json
?? www/reports/phase-8-browser-verification-2026-10-15.md
?? www/reports/phase-8-host-browser-verification-2026-10-14.md
?? www/reports/phase-8-static-evidence-2026-10-14.json
?? www/reports/phase-8-visual-accessibility-acceptance-2026-10-14.md
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-11-offline.json
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-12-offline.json
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-13-offline-06-16-06-857Z.json
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-13-offline.json
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-14-offline-07-32-07-044Z.json
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-15-offline-05-28-09-425Z.json
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-15-offline.json
?? www/tools/audit-phase8.mjs
?? www/tools/phase8-browser.mjs
?? www/tools/phase8-interactions.mjs
?? www/tools/phase8.test.mjs
?? www/tools/playwright-smoke.mjs

git diff --stat --no-renames (tracked changes only):

 AUTONOMOUS-CODEX.md                        |  29 ++++++
 flake.nix                                  |  38 ++++++-
 www/README.md                              |  34 +++++++
 www/reports/accessibility-audit.md         |  71 +++++++++++++
 www/reports/migration-summary.md           | 157 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 www/src/components/ContactForm.astro       |   6 ++
 www/src/components/FAQAccordion.astro      |   6 +-
 www/src/components/LanguageSwitcher.astro  |   2 +-
 www/src/components/MainNav.astro           |   2 +-
 www/src/components/MobileNav.astro         |   2 +-
 www/src/components/home/HomeDirector.astro |   5 +
 www/src/components/pages/ContactPage.astro |   6 ++
 www/src/layouts/BlogPostLayout.astro       |   2 +-
 www/src/styles/blog.css                    |   6 +-
 www/src/styles/forms.css                   |   1 +
 www/src/styles/layout.css                  |   4 +-
 16 files changed, 355 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Index: empty. git diff --check: pass. No staging, commit, push, merge, deployment, production request or integration activation occurred.

Recommendation: PHASE 8 PARTIALLY VERIFIED — MANUAL OR ENVIRONMENT GATES REMAIN. Local browser execution and targeted fixes are verified; the remaining source, visual, language and assistive-technology reviews prevent complete acceptance. Use the reviewer table above before a separately authorized checkpoint. Do not interpret this report as permission to implement Phase 9 or cut over production.

Bounded follow-up — 2026-10-15

PHASE 8 TECHNICALLY READY FOR CHECKPOINT REVIEW

This is technical readiness for user review, not checkpoint preparation, stakeholder acceptance or production authorization. No handoff update occurred. The prior report/evidence remains intact; new results are in phase-8-followup-evidence-2026-10-15.json.

Verified starting state and scope

Branch/HEAD remain faithful-astro-migration / 8e64d322092b1fa6e0f648ddf26a665c80588198. The follow-up began with 16 modified tracked files, 18 untracked files (including the five exclusions), and zero staged paths. Those were the expected cumulative Phase 8/environment changes. No unexpected overlapping work was found. The Phase 7 staging aid was absent. Protected files were not read, modified, moved, deleted or checksummed.

The completed 122-route browser pass, 100 representative captures and 50 no-JS visits were retained, not repeated wholesale. This pass targets Arabic article chrome, two heading findings, native-dialog behavior, bounded contrast and zoom.

Arabic article interface — P8-A11Y-008 corrected

Publication lang now passes explicitly from BlogPostLayout/BlogCard into LikeViewCounter and BlogPostFooter. A small article-messages.ts utility follows the existing server-selected message pattern. English and Spanish retain exactly their previous labels in this bounded Arabic task. No URL-derived or browser-language inference was introduced. No article wording, metadata, translation key, author, footer relationship or API behavior changed.

UI purpose	Existing English label	Arabic label
Like button	Like this article	الإعجاب بهذا المقال
Views accessible label	Article views	مشاهدات المقال
Visible views label	views	مشاهدات
Likes group name	Previously unnamed group	الإعجابات
Article navigation	Article navigation	التنقل بين المقالات
Previous / next	Previous Post / Next Post	المقال السابق / المقال التالي
Related heading	Similar Blog Posts	مقالات ذات صلة
Related-image link prefix	Read full post	قراءة المقال كاملاً

Arabic counts use isolated LTR spans; footer titles use bdi so embedded Latin terms retain their reading direction. The toggle retains its stable name and existing aria-pressed state. The complete LikeViewCounter <script> is byte-identical to HEAD; its digest is recorded in the new evidence. No API origin, request, cookie, credential or click-handling code changed.

Rendered tests cover every Arabic article/archive output in both build modes, plus unchanged English/Spanish labels. Browser checks cover the Arabic guide, Library and author archive at 1440/390px, including accessible button/navigation names, visible related heading, bidi presentation and page overflow. Agent inspection of the mobile footer confirms loaded cards and legible Arabic labels. Fluent Arabic acceptance remains pending.

Heading disposition — P8-A11Y-003 corrected

A numerical skip alone was not treated as a WCAG violation. The actual content structure supports these narrowly scoped semantic changes:

• DTT/NET: the three peer sections explain DTT, NET and their combined use; there is no containing H2 section. They are now H2 children of the article H1.
• Schedule consultation: “Start Here” is a peer of “The AIA Difference” and “ABA Therapy Services,” rather than a child of either. It is now H2.

Existing text, punctuation and fragment IDs are unchanged. Frontmatter is identical to HEAD, and normalized body wording is identical after removing only heading syntax. The Markdown article remains .md; its inline HTML headings are supported by the existing search-heading extractor. No synthetic heading, new metadata field, duplicate record or route was introduced.

The heading-size-h3 utility preserves H3 font sizing, line height and bottom margin; a prose rule preserves the top margin, including the source-page first-H2 exception. Browser comparison at 1440 and 390 confirms identical heading font size, line height, margins, width and height before/after. Generated HTML now has zero heading-review findings across all 122 routes. This is a semantic improvement, not a claim that all heading decisions are clinically or editorially approved.

Dialog disposition — P8-A11Y-007 native behavior, no application fix

Chromium 151.0.7922.75 ran four real timed-dialog scenarios: desktop/mobile, Escape/close-button. Each records initial heading focus, 20 forward Tabs and 20 reverse Shift+Tabs, then closing and focus restoration. All actual controls remained available. Attempting to focus the background brand while modal was open did not move focus there. Escape and keyboard activation of Close restored the originally focused brand link in all four scenarios.

The previously reported BODY boundary occurs with document.hasFocus() === false: focus has left the web document for browser chrome. A separate minimal native <dialog> control fixture reproduces the same boundary in both forward and reverse navigation. No background page control receives focus, and traversal returns to the dialog. This is not evidence of an application focus leak.

Disposition: no confirmed application defect; preserve native dialog behavior. Do not install a custom focus trap to suppress browser chrome. Real screen-reader and authorized visible-browser acceptance remain pending, independently of this passing technical comparison. ServiceInquiryDrawer source is unchanged.

Responsive, native zoom, focus and contrast

Both homepages pass 320/390/768/1440 checks; the earlier director-grid fix remains intact. Arabic diagrams render with their embedded artwork and support arrow-key scrolling at 390px inside named focusable regions; no page overflow or exposed English overlay text was detected in inspected captures. Their assets and clinical labels were not edited. Fluent/clinical approval remains mandatory.

Native browser zoom now has actual verification. A temporary local Chromium extension invokes chrome.tabs.setZoom in a fresh disposable profile, using the existing Playwright extension/persistent-context facility. It has no network code and is not installed into the user's normal browser. Website service workers remain blocked; the only extension worker is this explicit local test helper. This is not CSS zoom, pinch emulation or merely a viewport approximation.

Seven routes pass at 200%: /, /es, /es/contact, /es/client-consultation, /ar/library/aba-school-readiness-guide, /library, /schedule-consultation. The API reports zoom 2; a 1440px window reports 720 CSS pixels, DPR 2 and visual viewport scale 1. All seven document widths remain 720 with no horizontal page overflow. The enlarged Spanish contact form and disabled-call fallback remain readable in inspected viewport captures.

Playwright's fullPage capture at native zoom clipped the resulting image to CSS pixel dimensions. Those zoom images are superseded capture artifacts, not layout defects. Final zoom evidence uses 176 actual CDP viewport screenshots with approximately 20% overlap across the seven complete documents; per-frame scroll positions and hashes are saved. Capture coverage is not 176 human visual approvals. Early full-page screenshots also missed lazy related-card images; bounded eager/decode readiness now verifies all capture images before saving. Neither tool correction changed application code.

Additional confirmed contrast failures were bounded to light-surface selectors: Read More links, default eyebrows, desktop-nav hover, current-language links, related/previous/next hover/focus colors, and card-author focus outlines. Orange text measured 2.23:1 against white (below even the large-text 3:1 threshold); accent outlines measured 1.66:1. These now use existing primary/dark-primary colors, with underlines on Read More/current-language links. Normal primary is 9.89:1 on white / 8.89:1 on tint. The dark-background footer palette and FAQ's explicit dark-background eyebrow override are preserved. This intentional accessibility color deviation is not a new design system.

Browser checks confirm corrected resting/hover colors, skip/contact/form link contrast, underlines, and card-author focus outline clearance inside the card at both widths. Source typography, content and spacing are retained. These bounded checks are not a comprehensive WCAG audit or all-state color certification.

Visual comparison limits and safety

Before/after local captures and computed heading geometry verify preservation of the affected structure. Full-page Arabic outputs and seven complete zoom capture sequences provide additional review evidence. No new authenticated live-source comparison was performed. Existing public captures may be outdated, obstructed or cache-qualified; source uncertainty and trusted Spanish privacy comparison remain explicitly open. No design was inferred from unavailable source evidence.

Every page context installs exact-loopback GET/HEAD-only interception before navigation; WebSockets are closed, website service workers blocked, downloads disabled, and profiles are fresh. The main focused run prevented six unpkg Leaflet GETs; the final zoom recapture prevented two more. No production API attempt, non-GET/HEAD request, mutation, advertising event, credential flow or form submission was observed in this follow-up. The minimal dialog fixture is fulfilled locally and contains no form submission. Production API script remains unchanged. The earlier intercepted form experiment is not a security boundary; P9-03 and P9-04 remain pending.

Final validation and evidence

All commands ran sequentially with TMPDIR=/tmp and telemetry disabled:

Check	Actual result
npm run check	99 files; zero errors/warnings/hints
npm run test:markdown	20 pass
npm run test:publication	33 pass
npm run test:seo	35 pass
npm run test:library	51 pass, including two new rendered-output regressions
npm run test:routes	10 pass
node --test tools/phase8.test.mjs	5 pass, including shared contrast-state regression
Total regression tests	154 pass; zero fail
Focused Chromium follow-up	30 pass; zero fail; 29 focused cases plus native zoom across seven routes
Corrected zoom recapture	One grouped seven-route check passes; replaces the earlier zoom capture, not an additional distinct acceptance case
Normal and indexing-enabled builds	Pass; 122 routes each
Link / image / blog audits	0 broken links / missing mapped images / blog failures
Final normal staging build	122 noindex,nofollow pages; empty sitemap; zero hreflang
All-route generated-HTML audit	122 pass; zero hard failures or review warnings
git diff --check	Pass

The complete earlier browser suite was not repeated unnecessarily. Final indexing-enabled counts remain 122 routes/unique canonical targets, 108 sitemap URLs, 180 hreflang links across 55 routes, 25 validated translation sets, 74 Library articles (55/12/7), nine author archives and nine redirect definitions. FAQ counts remain 182 across 30 articles. No publication policy changed.

Final source-matching schema-2 artifact: route-reconciliation-2026-10-15-offline-06-41-27-766Z.json. Explicit --check --evidence passes: 133 dispositions, 122 generated routes, 70 reused historical requests, no new crawl. The earlier ...05-28-09-425Z.json is preserved as the preceding Phase 8 source version, not the current fingerprint. No historical artifact was overwritten.

Temporary evidence: /tmp/aia-p8-followup/:

• before.json and baseline captures: prior headings/colors.
• browser-verified/results.json: 30 checks; 10 valid new full-page captures, six diagram crops and two focus crops. Its seven zoom fullPage images are superseded.
• zoom-verified/results.json: final seven-route zoom measurements and 176 overlapping viewport captures.
• validation/: exact command logs and publication counts.

The new JSON report preserves observations, screenshot identities/hashes and provenance without copying browser profiles, extension caches or PNGs into Git. Real screen-reader sessions and human sign-offs remain zero.

Exact implementation changes in this follow-up

Path relative to www/	Change
src/utils/article-messages.ts (new)	Arabic article chrome with existing EN/ES behavior preserved
src/components/LikeViewCounter.astro	Server-selected labels/group/count direction; script unchanged
src/components/BlogPostFooter.astro	Explicit locale, Arabic labels, bidi title isolation, contrast state
src/components/BlogCard.astro	Pass locale; readable author focus outline
src/layouts/BlogPostLayout.astro	Pass publication locale to counter/footer
src/content/blog/en/aba-therapy-dtt-net-guide.md	Three peer headings H3→H2, text/IDs/styles preserved
src/content/pages/en/schedule-consultation.mdx	Start Here H3→H2, text/ID/style preserved
src/styles/typography.css	H3 appearance utility; readable default eyebrow color
src/styles/blog.css	Preserve top margin for semantically promoted headings
src/styles/components.css	Read More contrast and underline
src/components/MainNav.astro	Readable hover color
src/components/LanguageSwitcher.astro	Readable current-locale color and underline
tools/library.test.mjs	Arabic/unchanged EN/ES chrome and heading/search/fragment regression coverage
tools/phase8.test.mjs	Additional contrast-state coverage
tools/phase8-followup.mjs (new)	Focused guarded browser runner, native-dialog comparison and real zoom

Documentation updated: the existing October 14 acceptance report, this October 15 browser report, host procedure, accessibility audit and migration summary. New evidence: phase-8-followup-evidence-2026-10-15.json and the explicit final route artifact above. Prior environment files and all earlier Phase 8 changes are preserved. No SESSION_HANDOFF.md, Phase 9 register, source/footer inventories, package/lockfile, API, hosting or production settings changed in this follow-up.

Remaining defects and acceptance gates

No known material technical blocker remains in this bounded follow-up. P8-A11Y-003/008 and the confirmed light-surface contrast defects are corrected; P8-A11Y-007 is supported native browser behavior rather than an application defect. The blocked-map empty region remains an informational intentional test condition with accessible adjacent contact details, not an activated third-party service.

The following are still pending: fluent Arabic labels and Spanish/Arabic content, clinical/organizational and legal/privacy approval, trusted Spanish privacy source, Arabic terminology/diagram acceptance, real screen-reader sessions, authorized visible-browser/keyboard acceptance and broader source-qualified visual review. No claim of comprehensive WCAG or current-origin parity is made. All P9-01–P9-10 remain Pending decision, including landing-page/portal ownership, forms/API isolation, analytics/consent/Ads, author SEO, hosting/rollback and launch. This technical readiness status does not close any of those gates or authorize checkpoint preparation, staging, commit, push, deployment or Phase 9 work.

Follow-up final working tree

24 modified tracked paths; 22 untracked paths including the five protected exclusions; zero staged paths. No files were deleted, moved or renamed. This inventory includes previously authorized Phase 8/environment work. The five protected paths remain unchanged and outside future checkpoint scope. No staging aid was created. The loopback preview was stopped after verification.

Final source fingerprint: 9c68ed58e32c25bcec28cdbeb795d2a31ce566bf49d9056e09bd42f7d8a3f930.

git status --short --untracked-files=all:

 M AUTONOMOUS-CODEX.md
 M flake.nix
 M www/README.md
 M www/reports/accessibility-audit.md
 M www/reports/migration-summary.md
 M www/src/components/BlogCard.astro
 M www/src/components/BlogPostFooter.astro
 M www/src/components/ContactForm.astro
 M www/src/components/FAQAccordion.astro
 M www/src/components/LanguageSwitcher.astro
 M www/src/components/LikeViewCounter.astro
 M www/src/components/MainNav.astro
 M www/src/components/MobileNav.astro
 M www/src/components/home/HomeDirector.astro
 M www/src/components/pages/ContactPage.astro
 M www/src/content/blog/en/aba-therapy-dtt-net-guide.md
 M www/src/content/pages/en/schedule-consultation.mdx
 M www/src/layouts/BlogPostLayout.astro
 M www/src/styles/blog.css
 M www/src/styles/components.css
 M www/src/styles/forms.css
 M www/src/styles/layout.css
 M www/src/styles/typography.css
 M www/tools/library.test.mjs
?? merge-plan.md
?? www/reports/phase-8-browser-evidence-2026-10-15.json
?? www/reports/phase-8-browser-verification-2026-10-15.md
?? www/reports/phase-8-followup-evidence-2026-10-15.json
?? www/reports/phase-8-host-browser-verification-2026-10-14.md
?? www/reports/phase-8-static-evidence-2026-10-14.json
?? www/reports/phase-8-visual-accessibility-acceptance-2026-10-14.md
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-11-offline.json
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-12-offline.json
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-13-offline-06-16-06-857Z.json
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-13-offline.json
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-14-offline-07-32-07-044Z.json
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-15-offline-05-28-09-425Z.json
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-15-offline-06-41-27-766Z.json
?? www/reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-15-offline.json
?? www/src/utils/article-messages.ts
?? www/tools/audit-phase8.mjs
?? www/tools/phase8-browser.mjs
?? www/tools/phase8-followup.mjs
?? www/tools/phase8-interactions.mjs
?? www/tools/phase8.test.mjs
?? www/tools/playwright-smoke.mjs

git diff --stat --no-renames (tracked changes only):

 AUTONOMOUS-CODEX.md                                |  29 +++
 flake.nix                                          |  38 +++-
 www/README.md                                      |  34 ++++
 www/reports/accessibility-audit.md                 | 102 ++++++++++
 www/reports/migration-summary.md                   | 213 +++++++++++++++++++++
 www/src/components/BlogCard.astro                  |   4 +-
 www/src/components/BlogPostFooter.astro            |  22 ++-
 www/src/components/ContactForm.astro               |   6 +
 www/src/components/FAQAccordion.astro              |   6 +-
 www/src/components/LanguageSwitcher.astro          |   4 +-
 www/src/components/LikeViewCounter.astro           |  13 +-
 www/src/components/MainNav.astro                   |   4 +-
 www/src/components/MobileNav.astro                 |   2 +-
 www/src/components/home/HomeDirector.astro         |   5 +
 www/src/components/pages/ContactPage.astro         |   6 +
 .../content/blog/en/aba-therapy-dtt-net-guide.md   |   6 +-
 www/src/content/pages/en/schedule-consultation.mdx |   2 +-
 www/src/layouts/BlogPostLayout.astro               |   6 +-
 www/src/styles/blog.css                            |   7 +-
 www/src/styles/components.css                      |   2 +
 www/src/styles/forms.css                           |   1 +
 www/src/styles/layout.css                          |   4 +-
 www/src/styles/typography.css                      |   4 +-
 www/tools/library.test.mjs                         |  44 +++++
 24 files changed, 522 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

git diff --cached --name-only: empty. git diff --check: pass. SESSION_HANDOFF.md and the Phase 9 decision register are unchanged.

2026-10-15 — Spanish HSA/FSA badge transparency and geometry correction

User review identified an opaque white background and badge shrinkage/position drift in the initial Spanish derivative. The earlier full-image generation and white-background export were not faithful enough. This finding supersedes the Spanish badge visual-fidelity claim and image hash in the consolidated evidence; historical captures remain unchanged.

Replaced only public/assets/images/hsa-fsa-accepted-es.png. Built-in imagegen supplied APROBADO lettering; ImageMagick compositing retained the original English artwork and alpha outside that lettering. Both images are 500×425 RGBA. Alpha comparison: zero differing pixels. All changed color pixels are confined to a 192×42 lettering rectangle at x154/y188. The English source image remains byte-identical to HEAD. No layout, content, metadata, or publication changes.

Chromium 151.0.7922.75: 8/8 targeted checks pass, EN and ES at 320/390/768/1440px, matching rendered image dimensions, one section per page, Spanish alt text, no page overflow. Eight section screenshots with SHA-256 hashes are recorded in badge evidence, with temporary images in /tmp/aia-p8-badge-fix; Spanish mobile and desktop captures visually inspected. Loopback GET/HEAD-only guard, service workers blocked, WebSockets denied: zero blocked external/API requests and no production interactions.

Normal build, link audit (0 broken), image audit (0 missing mapped), and explicit offline consistency check pass. Current source-matching artifact: 18:21 offline reconciliation, reusing 70 historical requests with no new crawl. Final staging output: 122 noindex,nofollow pages, empty sitemap, zero hreflang. Full previous regression suite was not repeated for this asset-only correction. Fluent-Spanish/financial-claims acceptance and all existing Phase 9 gates remain pending. No staging, commit, deployment, or handoff update.