aia-website/www/reports/migration-summary.md

Migration Summary

Status

A maintainable Astro migration and substantial fidelity-first pass are implemented. The live public site was used as the authority for the shared shell, English and Spanish homepages, service-page family, team page, library indexes, and blog-post family.

Migrated Content and Assets

• 46 English, 12 Spanish, and 7 Arabic library posts.
• 21 English, 9 Spanish, and 2 Arabic page records.
• One author record per language.
• 167 self-hosted images, 20 font files, and two PDF downloads.
• Current June and May 2026 English library articles are included.

HubSpot-generated wrappers, analytics, scripts, CSS, query-language duplicates, AMP variants, and HubSpot-specific archive implementations are not copied into Astro. Native static Library pagination is now implemented (Phase 6B.2); author archives are planned for Phase 6B.3.

Live-Source Fidelity Pass

Live pages inspected during the pass include:

• English and Spanish homepages
• ABA Therapy, Autism Evaluations, and Learner Social Club
• About, Team, Client Consultation, and Giveback & Donate
• English and Arabic Library indexes
• Representative current library articles

Implemented fidelity work includes:

• Rebuilt the live two-tier header, navigation hierarchy, language controls, utility links, footer columns, and contact information.
• Rebuilt the complete English and Spanish homepages in their live section order using one reusable Astro component and self-hosted source assets.
• Moved the English and Spanish homepage copy into section-oriented home: frontmatter blocks so the page is easier to edit in Front Matter CMS.
• Rebuilt service pages around the live compact title banner and editorial presentation, with current visible headings and working calls to action.
• Recovered and restored the live decorative hero imagery for all mapped English and Spanish page routes plus every language's library index.
• Restored the consultation form section's injected background image.
• Added a dedicated live-derived team card grid rather than presenting the extracted team content as a generic article.
• Rebuilt the contact page around the live two-column content/form section and full-width Leaflet map while retaining local clickable obfuscated phone links.
• Rebuilt the giveback page as four source-faithful full-width sections with its original image/copy proportions, fundraiser color band, nonprofit logo, emphasis, and external donation calls to action.
• Rebuilt library indexes and blog-post presentation around the live sidebar, article list, byline, featured-image, and counter patterns.
• Converted FAQ-bearing posts to MDX and routed their accordions, the standalone FAQ page, and the insurance FAQ through one reusable component. Each accordion uses the same animated, single-open interaction and a component-scoped caret color override; blog and insurance instances also emit matching FAQPage JSON-LD.
• Restored 32 live-source blog blockquotes with their original emphasis, links, fawn backgrounds, spacing, rounded presentation, and quote-mark SVG.
• Replaced generic oversized cards, rounded controls, and marketing heroes with live-derived typography, palette, widths, spacing, and compact controls.
• Corrected material live-source discrepancies found during the pass, including current homepage ESA copy, testimonial content, and ABA copy.

Intentional visual deviations

• The homepage and /insurance carrier-logo rows intentionally share one responsive layout. The first and last logos sit flush with the row edges, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield mark is emphasized at 125% of the standard desktop logo width, following its treatment on the live homepage rather than preserving the live pages' differing row spacing.
• The Community 4 Autism logo on /donate-autism-giveback is horizontally centered on mobile instead of retaining the live page's left alignment.
• The empty <h6> retained by the live /schedule-consultation page was removed. It had no visible content and generated an empty heading ID in the migrated Markdown, so omitting it improves heading semantics and fragment integrity without removing page content.

URLs and Redirects

Clean public URLs are preserved, including:

• /aba-therapy
• /autism-evaluations
• /learner-social-club
• /client-consultation
• /library
• /library/post-slug
• available /es/... and /ar/library/... routes

Phase 3A replaces the earlier 97-canonical sitemap with publication-policy output: 92 local URLs in an indexing-enabled build and none in staging. Nginx rewrites remain limited to the brief aliases /aba, /autismevaluations, and /learnersocialclub.

Forms

Visible consultation/contact-style pages render styled static HTML forms with backend and spam-protection TODO comments. Submission is intentionally disabled. Appointment and enrollment calls to action route to the static consultation page rather than retaining the production Jotform backend.

The three English service pages also reproduce the live site's delayed, right-edge inquiry drawers, including their page-specific enrollment copy, shared field set, modal overlay, and responsive layout. These drawer forms are static and their submit controls remain disabled until a production backend and spam protection are selected; this is an intentional functional and visual deviation from the live HubSpot form.

External Dependencies

• The contact page map intentionally matches the live Leaflet/OpenStreetMap implementation and loads Leaflet from unpkg.com plus map tiles from tile.openstreetmap.org.

Multilingual

• Spanish has the full live-derived homepage, translated service pages, library index, and available translated posts.
• Arabic has RTL support, a clearly marked placeholder landing page, the live library family, and available Arabic posts.
• Language-switcher choices are emitted only when the corresponding Astro route exists, preventing dead translated-route links.
• Arabic pages use lang="ar" and dir="rtl"; English and Spanish use LTR.
• No large Arabic translations were invented.

Likes and Views

The post counter uses PUBLIC_AIA_API_BASE, defaulting to https://api.azinstitute4autism.com. Its contract was verified against the current live-site script:

• POST /stats/batch for likes and views
• POST /likes to like
• DELETE /likes/{slug} to unlike

It preserves cookie-backed liked state and degrades gracefully if the API is unavailable.

SEO and Accessibility

• Canonicals, Open Graph tags, Twitter card tags, semantic titles, and global organization JSON-LD are emitted by shared layouts.
• Organization JSON-LD intentionally omits raw telephone and email fields; visible contact details use the Astro obfuscation component to avoid exposing plain email and phone targets in rendered HTML.
• Library-index canonicals and current visible page H1s are explicitly set.
• Extracted image alt text is retained where available.
• Semantic landmarks, skip link, labeled forms, keyboard-operable navigation, language/direction attributes, and responsive layouts are present.
• Sätteri heading attributes remain enabled. Markdown supports explicit fragment IDs such as {#accepted-insurance-heading}; the installed MDX parser requires HTML heading IDs instead. The earlier claim that MDX also supports the shorthand was corrected during Phase 2 (see below).
• Sätteri directive parsing was disabled during Phase 2 after confirming that there are no intentional consumers and that it silently removes literal colon-containing text. No content or dependency versions were changed.

Validation Results

• npm audit --offline: passed with zero known vulnerabilities under Node 24.18.0; flake.nix provides a compatible current Node release.
• npm run audit:links: passed with zero broken internal source links. The audit now checks generated routes, root-relative references, relative Markdown links, and public assets when rendered output is unavailable.
• npm run audit:images: passed with no missing mapped page banners, section backgrounds, or blog featured images.
• npm run audit:blog: passed with no article-header content duplicated in blog content and valid MDX FAQ components for 125 questions across 19 posts.
• npm run generate:sitemap: passed; generated 97 URLs.
• npm run generate:redirects: passed.
• All migration .mjs tools and the sandbox DNS helper pass node --check.
• The Astro compiler parsed all 49 .astro files successfully.
• npm run build: passed with zero Astro diagnostics and generated 97 static pages.
• npm run build:sandbox: passed; generated 97 static pages.
• Live contact-page structure was inspected in browser at a 1280px desktop viewport; local generated HTML was checked for the contact layout, Leaflet assets, map container, and obfuscated clickable phone script. Local browser rendering was blocked because the Playwright browser cannot reach shell loopback servers and blocks file: URLs in this environment.
• Nix shell verification and npm audit retrieval were blocked by sandbox proxy/cache network resets.

Manual Review

• Perform full-page desktop and mobile visual comparisons for page-specific layouts beyond the completed homepage, team, service, library, and article families.
• Editorially review extracted long-form content for remaining extraction artifacts, stale phone/email references, and heading hierarchy.
• Review all source alt text, keyboard behavior, screen-reader output, and contrast with accessibility tooling.
• Have fluent reviewers approve Spanish content and Arabic RTL presentation.
• Select and connect a form backend with spam protection before launch.
• Validate like/view CORS, credentials, and production behavior after deployment.

Phase 2: Markdown Rendering Repair — 2026-10-07 UTC

These are newly verified local rendering findings. The accepted Phase 1 audit and route evidence remain unchanged. No production requests were made, no source content was rewritten, and no dependencies were upgraded.

Inspection and Cause

Before changing configuration, searched the Markdown/MDX corpus, documentation, parser configuration, scripts, plugins, layouts, and rendering components for container, leaf, and inline directives and their consumers. There are no intentional directives or registered directive transformations. Documentation examples in code fences, ordinary punctuation, URLs, times, ratios, frontmatter fields, CSS selectors, and explicit heading IDs are not directive consumers.

For all 100 content files, stripped frontmatter and inspected the installed Sätteri markdownToMdast / mdxToMdast output with the original headingAttributes: true, directive: true features. This found 24 unintended textDirective nodes in seven files, with zero container or leaf directives. Sätteri treats colon suffixes such as :1, :00, and :Plan as inline directives; without a transformation, the renderer drops those nodes. Astro's MDX integration inherits the same processor features, so both formats were affected. The original full build and the failing regression build confirmed the resulting text loss.

Only directive was changed to false; headingAttributes: true is retained.

Source under src/content/	Restored literal text	Unintended nodes
pages/en/aba-therapy.mdx	1:1, 1:2 in headings and prose	4
pages/es/aba-therapy.md	1:1, 1:2 in headings and prose	4
blog/en/aba-school-readiness-arizona.mdx	1:1, 1:10 in prose and tables	4
blog/es/aba-school-readiness-arizona.mdx	1:1, 1:10 in prose and tables	3
pages/en/learner-social-club.mdx	4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, twice	4
pages/es/learner-social-club.mdx	4:00 p. m. – 6:00 p. m., twice	4
pages/en/faqs.mdx	Opportunities:Plan breaks	1

Regression and Generated-Output Verification

npm run test:markdown creates a temporary Astro project, loads the real astro.config.mjs, and uses the existing dependencies and copied source components/content. It builds representative .md and .mdx fixtures plus all seven affected collection entries through astro:content's getEntry and render. The fixtures never enter the production route tree, and all temporary files are removed after the run.

The 20 tests cover 1:1, 1:2, 1:10, ordinary spaced and adjacent colon punctuation, English/Spanish times, plain URLs and link destinations (including port/query/fragment), inline/fenced code examples, MDX embedded markup, explicit heading IDs and fragment links, and the affected real content. Before the configuration change, 14 tests failed and six passed. Afterward, all 20 passed.

The full build still generates 97 pages. Comparing the before/after <main> HTML on all 97 pages found changes only in the seven routes corresponding to the table above. This comparison normalizes the existing random ContactObfuscation IDs in span attributes and script variables; that component was not changed. Generated /aba-therapy and /es/aba-therapy each now contain both ratios in their headings and prose (two occurrences of each ratio).

All existing explicit IDs remain intact. Four automatically generated service heading IDs now reflect the restored text:

Route	Previous generated ID	Corrected generated ID
/aba-therapy	aba-therapy-1-program	aba-therapy-11-program
/aba-therapy	aba-therapy-1-academic-readiness-program	aba-therapy-12-academic-readiness-program
/es/aba-therapy	programa-de-terapia-aba-1	programa-de-terapia-aba-11
/es/aba-therapy	terapia-aba-1-programa-de-preparación-académica	terapia-aba-12-programa-de-preparación-académica

No source references to the old IDs were found. Compatibility with production fragment links remains part of the later URL reconciliation; this repair does not introduce redirects or edit service content.

The installed MDX parser rejects Markdown's {#id} shorthand with directive parsing either enabled or disabled. This is a pre-existing limitation, not a regression from the repair. No current content uses that shorthand. Tests verify Markdown shorthand and MDX's supported <h2 id="..."> syntax. README guidance was corrected; a broader parser change is outside this phase.

Validation

Run from www/:

npm run test:markdown
npm run build
npm run audit:links
npm run audit:blog
git diff --check

• Markdown regression tests: 20 passed, zero failures.
• Build: passed; 74 checked files, zero errors/warnings/hints, 97 static pages.
• Link audit: zero broken internal links.
• Blog audit: zero content audit failures.
• Diff whitespace check: passed.
• No changes to application content, dependencies, lockfile, Phase 1 evidence, or merge-plan.md. No Phase 3 work was started.

Phase 3A: Route Eligibility, Canonicals, and Indexing — 2026-10-07 UTC

This section records new implementation and verification. Earlier Phase 1 evidence and the Phase 2 checkpoint are preserved. No deployment, form submission, backend activation, dependency change, content reconciliation, hreflang, translation-alternate graph, article schema, or FAQ schema work was performed.

Publication Architecture

src/utils/publication-policy.ts is the shared, framework-independent TypeScript policy. It derives local routes from collection/language/slug, normalizes public paths, rejects route collisions (including drafts and utility paths), validates canonicals, and decides route and sitemap eligibility. src/utils/publication.ts adapts the Astro collections and reads the existing PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING switch. The canonical site origin comes from site.json, also used by Astro configuration.

All content routes now pass through src/pages/[...slug].astro. The former fixed home and Library routes could bypass draft; they now use the same manifest as other pages. The existing Arabic home and three Library index templates were moved to presentation components, retaining their visible content. The English/Spanish home component receives its selected entry. Shared layouts obtain canonical/indexing policy by the actual local route; individual templates no longer invent or pass canonical strings.

The sitemap is an Astro endpoint generated alongside HTML. Its locations come from eligible local route URLs, never canonical strings. The old public sitemap copy was removed. generate:sitemap delegates to the Astro build instead of maintaining a separate frontmatter-regex generator. Route discovery and the source-link audit fallback reuse the shared publication policy; route evidence now records eligibility, noindex, policy canonical, external-canonical status, and production sitemap eligibility separately from rendered metadata.

The sole new frontmatter/schema field is noindex, a boolean defaulting to false. Existing draft and canonical fields cover the remaining rules.

Verified Exceptions and Read-Only Production Evidence

Six successful GET requests were made between 02:42:02 and 02:42:08 UTC: robots.txt first, then the five routes below. Requests were sequential, at least one second apart, with redirects not followed. Robots allowed these paths. No publisher pages, forms, or production APIs were requested. The web tool could not retrieve robots.txt; the direct GET succeeded. All five route observations agree with the accepted saved production evidence; these are new checks, not silent revisions to historical findings.

Route	Fresh HTTP / robots evidence	Implemented exception	Production sitemap
/ar	404 at 02:42:08	Existing placeholder marked draft: true; no HTML route	Excluded
/schedule-consultation	200 / noindex at 02:42:04	noindex: true; accessible, self-canonical	Excluded
/employee-portal	200 / noindex at 02:42:05	noindex: true; accessible, self-canonical	Excluded
/library/community-highlight-meet-rula-diab	200 / noindex at 02:42:06	noindex: true; external canonical retained	Excluded
/library/new-aia-scottsdale-office	200 / noindex at 02:42:07	noindex: true; external canonical retained	Excluded

The exact verified external canonical targets are:

• VoyagePhoenix original
• Scottsdale.org original

Only five content files changed, all in frontmatter: the Arabic home draft flag, four noindex flags, and the two external canonical values. Portal access and replacement behavior remain unchanged and deferred to human decision.

Before / After and Output Verification

Behavior	Before Phase 3A	After Phase 3A
Route publication	Collection routes filtered drafts; fixed indexes bypassed them	Every content route uses the same eligibility manifest
Generated HTML	97 pages, including /ar placeholder	96 pages; only /ar removed
Canonical handling	Optional unchecked values passed by templates; syndicated posts self-canonicalized	Exactly one normalized self canonical, or the verified external exception; missing ordinary values derive from the route
Indexing-enabled robots	All pages defaulted to indexable	92 index,follow; four verified noindex,follow exceptions
Staging robots	Global noindex,nofollow	Global protection retained on all 96 pages; no page override
Sitemap	Static list of 97 frontmatter canonicals	92 eligible local URLs when indexing is enabled; empty in staging
Robots sitemap advertisement	Environment dependent	Still advertised only in the indexing-enabled build

Published noindex pages remain accessible. An external canonical independently excludes a page from the sitemap; it does not automatically invent a noindex directive. The two real syndicated articles explicitly retain their verified noindex status. Invalid/relative/unsafe canonicals, local targets that disagree with the route or public origin, duplicate published canonical targets, and route collisions fail validation. Duplicate frontmatter keys also fail parsing.

The language menu now uses eligible routes without a hardcoded /ar entry. The Arabic header logo falls back to the existing English homepage while its localized homepage is unpublished. No hreflang or new translation relationships were introduced. Main content text, titles, and H1s are unchanged on all 96 retained routes. There are no stylesheet or asset changes.

The indexing-enabled local artifact was checked at 02:54:56 UTC: all 96 heads matched their manifest canonicals/robots; 92 local sitemap URLs; no /ar. The final ordinary build restores staging output with 96 noindex pages and zero sitemap locations. No environment files or deployment configuration changed.

Regression Coverage and Reproduction

npm run test:publication passes 19 tests covering normal publication, draft exclusion, accessible noindex pages, external canonicals independently of noindex, normalized/missing/malformed/duplicate canonicals, cross-collection and cross-locale collisions, reserved routes, staging protection, and all five verified exceptions. Generated-head checks reject absent, duplicate, and invalid canonical tags. It builds the actual application in temporary directories in both environment modes, then additionally marks a home and Library index as drafts and confirms their routes disappear. The tests never change real source, environment configuration, or dist.

Validation from www/, in the requested order (with evidence refresh steps):

npm run test:publication
npm run build
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build
npm run audit:routes -- --offline
npm run audit:routes -- --check
npm run audit:links
npm run build
npm run audit:routes -- --offline
npm run audit:routes -- --check
git diff --check

All required commands passed. Each build checked 71 files with zero errors, warnings, or hints, and generated 96 HTML pages. The link audit found zero broken internal links. Existing regression suites also passed: 20 Markdown tests and nine route-audit tests. Dependencies and the lockfile are unchanged. The source-only link fallback also passed in an isolated directory with zero broken links. The generate:sitemap compatibility command was verified using Astro's public build API, followed by another normal staging build.

The final durable local reconciliation is route-reconciliation-2026-10-07-offline-04-11-25-151Z.json. It reuses the earlier 70 production request records with their original observation dates; neither offline reconciliation made new production requests. Only the final staging reconciliation is retained in the repository; the intermediate indexing reconciliation was moved to temporary storage after its checks. The six targeted requests described above are separate fresh evidence.

The normalized discovery inventory remains 129 routes, with 102 URLs in the saved production sitemap. Local generated routes decrease from 97 to 96; sitemap/local overlap stays 92, and the ten sitemap-listed live-only routes remain outstanding. /ar remains visible in the inventory as draft, ineligible, not generated, and verified absent on production. Earlier audit files retain their historical facts.

No new human publication-policy decision is needed for Phase 3A. Human gates for portal access, forms/backends, analytics/consent, landing-page ownership, and conflicting service facts remain deferred. Phase 3B was not started.

Phase 3B: Explicit Translation Relationships and Hreflang — 2026-10-07 UTC

This section records new work after the accepted Phase 3A structural review. Earlier audit findings and implementation history above remain historical. Starting branch: faithful-astro-migration; HEAD: 1e1aafa. The only commit after Phase 3A (cd097d0) added the conversation transcript. The Phase 1 and Phase 2 checkpoints remain 60c534d and ea2f1ea. This work is not committed.

Inspection and Policy

The existing manifest owns every generated content route and already supplies eligibility, normalized local URL, canonical, noindex, external-canonical and sitemap eligibility. Inspection found 32 page records, 65 blog records and three author records, all declaring translationKey. No hreflang was emitted. The language switcher was the only equivalent-route guesser: it removed a language prefix and tried the same URL suffix in all languages. The Header's locale-home fallback is navigation, not a translation relationship, and remains unchanged.

createPublicationManifest in src/utils/publication-policy.ts now groups explicit keys within each collection. It attaches one validated translations array to every eligible member of a multilingual set. Each reference contains the declared language and the target's actual manifest route and absolute URL. It never derives an equivalent from a slug, filename or URL suffix.

Participation reuses sitemapEligible: a generated/published entry that is indexable and self-canonical under the production policy. At least two eligible languages are required. All members, including drafts, are checked for duplicate language declarations before filtering; two entries for the same collection, key and language fail validation. The graph validator rejects dangling targets, wrong collection/key/language/URL, ineligible endpoints, duplicate languages, missing self references and nonreciprocity. All members share the same complete, ordered set, so reciprocity is generated rather than manually maintained.

Grouping versus missing references: translationKey is an optional grouping label, not a pointer or a list of required locales. A singleton remains valid and emits no alternates; it does not assert that a Spanish/Arabic record exists. An absent referenced graph node fails policy validation; an absent referenced HTML file fails rendered-output validation. A typo that creates a new singleton or deletion of the last counterpart cannot be distinguished from intentionally standalone content by this schema. No new required-target field or guessed language requirement was introduced.

The existing optional translationKey schema now rejects empty and whitespace-padded values in pages, blog and authors. There are no new frontmatter fields and no content/frontmatter edits. Placeholders must remain drafts; the only marked content placeholder is /ar, already draft: true.

Current Explicit Sets

The existing declarations produce 24 sets / 53 participating routes: nine page sets (19 routes) and 15 blog sets (34 routes). English contributes 24 members, Spanish 21, Arabic eight. There are 19 two-language sets and five three-language sets. The following inventory lists actual local routes, not inferred URLs. A dash means there is no eligible declared counterpart.

Collection / key	English	Spanish	Arabic
pages / index	/	/es	—
pages / library	/library	/es/library	/ar/library
pages / aba-therapy	/aba-therapy	/es/aba-therapy	—
pages / aba-therapy-intake-process	/aba-therapy-intake-process	/es/aba-therapy-intake-process	—
pages / autism-evaluations	/autism-evaluations	/es/autism-evaluations	—
pages / client-consultation	/client-consultation	/es/client-consultation	—
pages / contact	/contact	/es/contact	—
pages / learner-social-club	/learner-social-club	/es/learner-social-club	—
pages / services	/services	/es/services	—
blog / aba-school-readiness-arizona	/library/aba-school-readiness-arizona	/es/library/aba-school-readiness-arizona	—
blog / aba-school-readiness-guide	/library/aba-school-readiness-guide	—	/ar/library/aba-school-readiness-guide
blog / autism-evaluation-diagnosis-arizona-parent-guide	/library/autism-evaluation-diagnosis-arizona-parent-guide	/es/library/autism-evaluation-diagnosis-arizona-parent-guide	—
blog / autism-evaluation-what-to-expect	/library/autism-evaluation-what-to-expect	/es/library/autism-evaluation-what-to-expect	—
blog / autism-family-self-care-tips	/library/autism-family-self-care-tips	/es/library/autism-family-self-care-tips	—
blog / autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba	/library/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba	/es/library/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba	/ar/library/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba
blog / behavior-management-functions-guide	/library/behavior-management-functions-guide	—	/ar/library/behavior-management-functions-guide
blog / emotional-regulation-aba	/library/emotional-regulation-aba	/es/library/emotional-regulation-aba	—
blog / enhancing-generalization-skills	/library/enhancing-generalization-skills	/es/library/enhancing-generalization-skills	—
blog / executive-functioning-skills-autism	/library/executive-functioning-skills-autism	/es/library/executive-functioning-skills-autism	/ar/library/executive-functioning-skills-autism
blog / first-then-cards-autism-transitions	/library/first-then-cards-autism-transitions	/es/library/first-then-cards-autism-transitions	/ar/library/first-then-cards-autism-transitions
blog / parents-guide-to-autism-and-aba	/library/parents-guide-to-autism-and-aba	/es/library/parents-guide-to-autism-and-aba	—
blog / positive-reinforcement-techniques	/library/positive-reinforcement-techniques	/es/library/positive-reinforcement-techniques	/ar/library/positive-reinforcement-techniques
blog / proactive-reactive-aba-strategies-guide	/library/proactive-reactive-aba-strategies-guide	—	/ar/library/proactive-reactive-aba-strategies-guide
blog / social-pragmatic-communication-autism	/library/social-pragmatic-communication-autism	/es/library/social-pragmatic-communication-autism	—

Excluded: /ar is draft and uses home, not the published home set's index key; its key was not changed. /schedule-consultation, /employee-portal, /library/community-highlight-meet-rula-diab, and /library/new-aia-scottsdale-office remain noindex; the latter two also retain external canonicals. None can be a source or target. Three authors:rula-diab records share a key but have no generated author routes and do not enter the graph. The other 39 indexable routes have no eligible translated counterpart. Live-only Spanish privacy, author/archive/search routes and missing languages are not manufactured. There are no additional current URL-matched published pairs lacking explicit keys; different-slug and unkeyed same-slug fixtures test that future content will not be guessed.

SEO, Navigation and Default Language

Seo.astro calls the shared hreflangLinksFor helper. An indexing-enabled build emits absolute alternate URLs, including the page itself, on each set member. English is the project's established default; x-default points to that set's eligible English member, never an unrelated homepage. A set without eligible English omits x-default (covered with Spanish/Arabic fixtures and excluded English fixtures). All 24 current sets have an eligible English member.

This follows Google's localized-page guidance on fully qualified, reciprocal, self-referencing alternates and an appropriate default. Staging emits no hreflang; its global noindex,nofollow and empty sitemap remain intact. The graph still supplies local language navigation.

LanguageSwitcher.astro uses those same manifest equivalents and the entry's declared language for its active label. It constructs no counterpart URLs. Labels, SVG and CSS are unchanged. Without a translation set, it retains the current-language label but emits no empty menu, focusable trigger or listbox promise. Existing translated sets keep self and equivalent links. Header and route/template dispatch code are unchanged.

Fresh Production Observations

Six read-only GETs on 2026-10-07 23:00:32–23:00:38 UTC, at least one second apart, checked robots first and then these five pages. Robots permitted the paths; all six responses were HTTP 200, with no redirects followed. No forms, APIs, broad crawl or production writes were used; no production HTML is added to the repository. These checks supplement, rather than rewrite, earlier audit evidence.

Observed page	Check time UTC	Declared production alternates
/	23:00:33	en /, es /es/, x-default /
/library	23:00:35	en-us /library, es /es/library, ar /ar/library
/library/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba	23:00:36	en-us, es, ar, x-default English
/es/library/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba	23:00:37	en-us, es, ar, x-default English
/ar/library/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba	23:00:38	en-us, es, ar, x-default English

The article's three observations reference the same three full article paths listed in the set inventory. The homepage and article use English defaults. Production's Library index has no x-default; the local policy adds its real English index as the default, consistent with the approved rule. Library production labels English en-us; local output uses the existing content language en, without inventing regional variants. Relationships are based on explicit existing content declarations, supported by these targeted checks; this is not a new full content reconciliation or linguistic-fluency approval.

Validation and Structural Review

npm run test:publication: 33 passed, including the original 19 Phase 3A tests and 14 translation tests. Coverage includes different-slug equivalence, unrelated matching slugs, collection boundaries, all publication exclusions, malformed/duplicate keys, dangling graph/generated references, reciprocity, self references, default eligibility and identical switcher/SEO membership. Isolated real-Astro builds exercise staging, indexing and draft home/Library indexes without changing the real content or deploying anything.

The requested validation sequence passed (offline refreshes keep source fingerprints current without making discovery requests):

cd www
npm run test:publication
npm run build
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build
npm run audit:routes -- --offline
npm run audit:routes -- --check
npm run audit:links
npm run build
npm run audit:routes -- --offline
npm run audit:routes -- --check
git diff --check

All three regular build invocations checked 71 files with zero errors, warnings or hints, and generated 96 HTML routes. The link audit found zero broken links. At 23:02:40 UTC, the indexing artifact had 92 sitemap entries, 92 indexable pages and four noindex exceptions, with 174 hreflang links on 53 routes across 24 sets. Canonicals matched the pre-change artifact on every retained route. At 23:03:49 UTC, the final staging artifact had 96 noindex,nofollow pages, zero sitemap entries and zero hreflang links. Every language menu matched the graph. Route set, titles, canonical URLs, language/direction and main content matched the pre-change artifact; the main-content comparison excludes script nodes and normalizes whitespace and existing random contact-obfuscation IDs.

The final durable route evidence is route-reconciliation-2026-10-07-offline-23-03-24-581Z.json. It preserves the original 70 production request records and observation times. The discovery inventory remains 129 routes, production sitemap inventory 102, local generated 96, local/sitemap overlap 92 and live-sitemap local omissions 10. Those production counts are historical discovery evidence, not the local 92-entry production-policy sitemap. The intermediate indexing reconciliation is retained only in temporary storage; both modes are reproducible above.

The diff is confined to the shared publication policy, translation-key schema validation, switcher, SEO component, existing publication tests, README, this report and the final dated route reconciliation. No content/frontmatter, route templates, styles, dependencies, environment files or deployment settings were changed. No Phase 3A blocker or accounting defect was found. The original merge-plan.md remains untracked with SHA-256 015db80cdbaf7d68799265d2070db760155c342b432ce6795f17ebc2218c641c.

No new human publication-policy decision is required. Existing decisions about employee access, campaign ownership, forms, analytics/consent and conflicting eligibility claims remain deferred. Substantive future translations require human language review. Phase 4A, article/FAQ schema, content reconciliation, visual fidelity and deployment work were not started. Stop for review before any Phase 3B checkpoint commit.

Phase 4A — Display Headings and Social Metadata (2026-10-08)

This section records new implementation and observations after checkpoint 32112edbde7f90d01becf5d420ff189bf8b7e6ec on faithful-astro-migration. Earlier audit and phase sections remain historical evidence. Phase 4B, substantive content reconciliation, Library features and deployment are outside this milestone. No changes have been staged or committed; stop for acceptance of the implementation and structural review.

Inspection and Architecture

Before changes, articles used title for both document title and H1. Regular pages used serviceTitles, pageTitles, then the part of title preceding |. Home and Library components owned their headings. Seo.astro already handled OG metadata and Twitter title/description/card, but lacked twitter:image; it emitted content language codes as og:locale. Publication, robots, canonical, sitemap, hreflang and LanguageSwitcher membership were already governed by the Phase 3A/3B manifest and remain so.

The shared pages/blog Zod schema now accepts optional displayH1. It must be a string containing non-whitespace text. Omission preserves existing behavior; empty, whitespace-only and non-string explicit values fail validation. Both Front Matter CMS content types expose the field. No author or social-specific schema fields were added.

• BlogPostLayout selects displayH1 ?? title for its existing H1 only.
• PageLayout selects displayH1 ?? bannerTitle only at PageHero. All existing heading maps and fallbacks remain intact. Form and contact heading props continue to receive the original banner title, avoiding collateral changes.
• HomePage passes the optional override to HomeHero. Without one, existing source heading HTML, including line breaks, is preserved. An override is escaped plain text and replaces the single H1, never adds another one.
• BlogIndexLayout reads the current manifest entry for an explicit H1 override. Its existing title prop continues to control the document/social titles and default H1. Existing locale-specific Library template titles are unchanged.

Cards, navigation labels, related-post text, article bodies, styles and client code are unchanged. No content routes, policy fields or translation pairs were added. The unpublished Arabic homepage remains unpublished.

Newly Verified Heading Evidence

Two batches of read-only production requests on 2026-10-08 respected robots and spaced page requests by at least one second. Nine GETs total comprised two robots checks and seven article checks across four unique article URLs. All returned HTTP 200; no redirects were followed, forms submitted, APIs called or production assets downloaded. Three article checks were repeated with the document-title selector restricted to head title, excluding inline SVG title elements from the initial extraction. Only the corrected document titles below are used as heading evidence. No production HTML captures are committed.

Production URL	Observation UTC	Document title	Visible H1	Local action
English self-advocacy	2026-10-08 21:11:28	Unlock Independence for Children with Autism Through ABA Self‑Advocacy	Guide to Teaching Self‑Advocacy in ABA	Add this displayH1 only to src/content/blog/en/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba.md
Spanish self-advocacy	2026-10-08 21:11:29	Desbloqueando la independencia para niños con autismo a través de la autodefensa ABA	Guía para enseñar la autodefensa en el ABA	Add this displayH1 only to src/content/blog/es/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba.md
Arabic self-advocacy	2026-10-08 21:11:30	دليل تعليم مهارات الدفاع عن النفس في ABA	دليل تعليم مهارات الدفاع عن النفس في ABA	No change; existing title-to-H1 fallback is correct

The English nonbreaking hyphen and Spanish heading are copied from the current source, not newly translated. These are the only two content-record edits; each adds one frontmatter line. Titles, descriptions, images, bodies and translation declarations are untouched. This is not a linguistic review of the translations or a broader certification of content currency.

A separate targeted check of /library/aba-school-readiness-arizona at 2026-10-08 21:07:17 UTC found current OG title “ABA School Readiness in Arizona: A Parent Guide” and H1 “ABA School Readiness for Autistic Children in Arizona.” The existing local title is “ABA School Readiness in Arizona | AIA Preparatory Academy (Ages 2–6).” The current live description also discusses classroom participation and individualized ABA. This is fresh evidence of broader drift requiring later content reconciliation; that record is intentionally unchanged in Phase 4A.

Social Metadata and Locale

Seo.astro uses a small socialImageUrl helper to resolve existing image paths against the configured public origin in src/data/site.json. It never uses a preview request host or an article's external canonical as the asset base. Absolute HTTP(S) image URLs are supported; blank selections produce no image, and invalid URLs, non-HTTP(S) schemes or embedded credentials fail validation.

Image pages now emit matching absolute og:image and twitter:image once each, retaining summary_large_image. Non-image pages emit neither image nor image-alt metadata and retain summary. Existing image selection is unchanged: article featured images and regular-page featured images/banner fallbacks are preserved. No homepage image is invented merely because a hero image exists. The real artifact has 90 image cards and six summary cards in each mode. Every emitted local social image resolves to an existing public asset.

BaseLayout forwards existing alt only when the selected image is the entry's featuredImage. Seo emits both og:image:alt and twitter:image:alt only for a nonblank description with a selected image. An unrelated banner fallback never inherits that description. The current local pages/blog corpus has no nonempty featured-image alt values, so no real image-alt tags are fabricated; isolated fixtures prove the supported path in all three languages. Production self-advocacy pages do have social alt descriptions. Importing those into local content and reviewing visible image descriptions remain later content work.

og:title, og:description, og:url, og:type, Twitter title/description and card selection otherwise retain their behavior. Articles remain article and other pages website. No structured-data types were added.

The Open Graph protocol defines the optional og:locale as language_TERRITORY. Existing generic en, es and ar values were removed; neither the frontmatter nor inspected production articles establish regional assignments, and those production articles emit no og:locale. Omission avoids inventing regions. Open Graph documents en_US as its default when omitted, so intentional Spanish/Arabic social-region targeting remains an unresolved human localization choice, not a claim that omission supplies it. HTML lang, RTL/LTR direction, hreflang and x-default are unchanged.

Validation

npm run test:seo: 12 passed. Tests use the actual content schema, layouts, SEO component and Astro configuration in temporary copies, covering:

• Original article H1 fallback and explicit override in en/es/ar; independent document/social/card titles; both production-supported records.
• Existing service, regular-page and derived headings; single H1; homepage inline heading markup and explicit home/Library overrides.
• Absolute root/path-relative and external image URLs, invalid/blank URLs, preview-host isolation, paired image metadata, existing alt and absent alt, no-image fallback, article type and language/direction.
• Shared publication-policy results on every generated fixture route in staging/indexing: canonical, robots, sitemap, hreflang and switcher targets, including all noindex/external-canonical exceptions and absent /ar.
• Actual failed content builds for displayH1 values "", spaces, newline/tab and a number. Markdown records and an MDX service record exercise rendering.

The first test run exposed a fixture path using .md for the existing MDX ABA service record; that test-only path was corrected before continuing. There were no remaining test failures. npm run test:publication: 33 passed, unchanged from Phase 3B.

Completed commands, from www/:

npm run test:seo
npm run test:publication
npm run build
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build
npm run audit:routes -- --offline
npm run audit:routes -- --check
npm run audit:links
npm run audit:blog
npm run audit:images
npm run build
npm run audit:routes -- --offline
npm run audit:routes -- --check
git diff --check

Each normal/indexing build checked 73 files with zero errors, warnings or hints, and generated 96 HTML routes: 67 English, 21 Spanish, eight Arabic. Link audit: zero broken internal links. Blog audit: zero failures. Image audit: zero missing mapped page images; the generated social-image check additionally verified all selected local image files. These are local artifact checks, not verification of every external URL or social-platform preview/cache behavior.

Artifact	Checked UTC, 2026-10-08	HTML routes	Sitemap URLs	Robots	Hreflang
Indexing-enabled local build	21:16:30	96	92	92 index,follow; four noindex,follow	174 links on 53 routes, same 24 explicit sets
Final normal staging build	21:17:16	96	0	All 96 noindex,nofollow	Zero links

All 96 canonicals match the pre-change artifact and the shared policy. The four exceptions remain /schedule-consultation, /employee-portal, /library/community-highlight-meet-rula-diab and /library/new-aia-scottsdale-office. Neither they nor unpublished /ar enter the alternate graph or production-policy sitemap. Social URLs do not affect route eligibility or canonical selection.

An all-route semantic comparison against the pre-change staging artifact found exactly the two supported H1 changes. Remaining body markup, navigation and scripts match after normalizing whitespace and existing random contact IDs; H1 text is compared separately. Remaining head markup also matches after excluding the intended social-tag differences and mode-dependent robots and hreflang. No title, description, existing OG image, URL, direction, client behavior or JSON-LD changes were introduced.

The final durable reconciliation is route-reconciliation-2026-10-08-offline.json. It refreshes the application fingerprint and final staging output using the same 70 saved production requests and their original observation dates. No route-discovery network requests were made. The new targeted heading checks above supplement that historical discovery evidence rather than overwrite it. Counts remain 129 discovered routes, 102 historical production sitemap routes, 96 local routes, 92 overlapping routes and 10 production-sitemap routes absent locally. The historical 102 is distinct from the local policy's 92. The intermediate indexing reconciliation was moved to temporary storage before the final staging reconciliation; prior committed evidence files are intact.

Read-only Structural Review and Scope

The complete Phase 4A change set contains 17 files:

Classification	Files relative to www/	Reason
Schema/editor configuration	src/content.config.ts, frontmatter.json	Optional validated heading field on pages/blog and CMS exposure
Presentation	src/layouts/BlogPostLayout.astro, src/layouts/PageLayout.astro, src/layouts/BlogIndexLayout.astro, src/components/pages/HomePage.astro, src/components/home/HomeHero.astro	Explicit single-H1 override, preserving each template's default
SEO	src/components/Seo.astro, src/layouts/BaseLayout.astro, new src/utils/seo.ts	Paired absolute social images, conditional existing alt, removal of unsupported generic OG locales
Tests	new tools/seo.test.mjs, package.json	Actual Astro/schema regression coverage and test:seo; no dependency changes
Content metadata	src/content/blog/en/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba.md, src/content/blog/es/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba.md	One source-supported frontmatter line per record
Documentation/evidence	README.md, this report, new reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-08-offline.json	Editing rules, dated evidence/results, current offline fingerprint

No changes to publication-policy code, route dispatch, LanguageSwitcher, Header, styling, dependency versions/lockfile, environment or deployment configuration are required. Existing audit-generated link/blog/image reports are unchanged. Employee-portal implementation, the separate Ads project and all unrelated files remain untouched. The pre-existing untracked merge-plan.md retains SHA-256 015db80cdbaf7d68799265d2070db760155c342b432ce6795f17ebc2218c641c.

No blocking Phase 3A/3B defect was found. Deferred work includes broader title, content and image-alt reconciliation, regional social locale decisions, article/FAQ schema, and human language review where substantive translations change. No Phase 4B work or commit is authorized by this implementation review.

Phase 4B — Article and FAQ Structured Data (2026-10-08)

Implemented on faithful-astro-migration, starting from 4ed01d7d288b249bd028a492e534d3d91adad6f7. The working tree initially contained only the unrelated untracked merge-plan.md. The current history has the Phase 4A change set after two Ads documentation commits; this phase does not alter or incorporate that handoff work. Earlier milestone sections remain historical evidence. Nothing in this phase is staged or committed.

Existing Implementation and New Production Evidence

Inspection covered BlogPostLayout, BaseLayout, FAQAccordion, FaqPage, all FAQ component consumers, content schemas, the three author records, publication helpers, the existing SEO tests, and the plan's Phase 4B acceptance criteria. The initial generated artifact had 96 routes, one existing MedicalOrganization block per route, no BlogPosting blocks, and 20 FAQPage blocks: 125 questions in 19 English/Spanish MDX articles and two insurance questions. Those 127 schema answers matched their rendered answers after whitespace normalization.

/faqs was different: its rendered Markdown/MDX source contained 70 unique direct H3 questions, but FAQAccordion received no items. Browser code grouped the H3s and following siblings into accordions at runtime, so the server emitted no FAQPage. This was a missing schema path, not a reason to replace the working accordion, its interaction code, or its content.

Nine read-only production GETs on 2026-10-08 21:57:43–21:57:53 UTC comprised robots first and the eight targeted pages below. Robots allowed these paths; all responses were HTTP 200, requests were at least one second apart, and no redirects were followed. No forms, APIs, production writes or broad crawl were used. Production HTML stayed in temporary storage.

Production page	Observation UTC	Relevant findings
English self-advocacy	21:57:44	BlogPosting headline uses the SEO title, not display H1; Rula Diab author; published 2024-12-02T07:00:00.000Z, modified 2026-10-03T20:47:43.625Z
Spanish self-advocacy	21:57:45	BlogPosting, localized Rula Diab byline; published 2026-04-09T03:36:24.000Z, modified 2026-04-09T03:36:32.552Z; current visible date is April 9, 2026
Arabic self-advocacy	21:57:47	BlogPosting, localized Rula Diab byline; published 2024-12-02T07:00:00.000Z, modified 2025-09-09T01:34:16.718Z
Standalone FAQs	21:57:48	One FAQPage with 70 questions
Insurance	21:57:49	One FAQPage with two questions; local question/answer text matches the production schema after normalization
School readiness	21:57:51	BlogPosting plus FAQPage with nine questions; local article has seven older questions
Community interview	21:57:52	noindex, external Voyage Phoenix canonical; HubSpot still supplies BlogPosting with AIA-logo publisher and Rula Diab author
Office article	21:57:53	noindex, external Scottsdale Airpark canonical; same generic HubSpot authorship/publisher pattern

Current source checks support the shared metadata structure and selected records; they do not certify the currency of all 65 local articles. Identified date/copy drift is explicitly deferred below, not silently reconciled.

Article Architecture and Publication Exceptions

src/utils/structured-data.ts holds the schema builders and an HTML-safe JSON serializer. BlogPostLayout consumes the existing manifest publication record and authors collection and emits one BlogPosting through BaseLayout's existing head slot. BaseLayout's MedicalOrganization block is unchanged.

BlogPosting includes canonical @id (#article), url, mainEntityOfPage, the existing SEO title as headline, language, declared publication day, and optional nonblank description, featured image and explicit modification day. Image resolution reuses Phase 4A's public-origin helper. Display H1 does not replace the SEO title. No body text, keywords, publisher, credentials, original publication claim or missing image is fabricated.

Author resolution requires exactly one record with the article's declared author slug and language. Its name supplies a Person name. Missing/ambiguous references fail, rather than silently substituting Rula Diab or an English record. Existing authors all identify Rula Diab. Author URLs are omitted because the repository does not yet generate author archives. No author records or frontmatter/schema fields changed.

Dates use the precision actually supplied by current records: calendar days. updatedDate is emitted only when explicitly present; all current records lack it. Neither build time, Git dates nor recently observed HubSpot update times are substituted. Modification before publication fails validation.

Both article and FAQ builders reuse the manifest's record-level sitemapEligible gate. Drafts, noindex and external-canonical records emit neither new type. The two syndicated articles above therefore receive no invented original author/publisher claim, even though production HubSpot emits generic article schema there. Their external canonicals, noindex and global site organization block remain intact. /schedule-consultation and /employee-portal likewise emit neither type; /ar remains unpublished.

The record gate is independent of PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING. Eligible records emit schema in both build modes for local testing, while staging retains its global noindex protection, empty sitemap and absent hreflang. Schema does not make a record indexable or create translation relationships.

FAQ Verification and Corrections

FAQAccordion remains the single FAQ schema producer. Its existing supplied-item markup, CSS, animation, search and runtime grouping code are preserved.

• Schema answers derive from the HTML actually rendered by the component, using answerHtml when present or the same answer fallback. This prevents a stale duplicate plain-text field from contradicting the visible answer. Entity decoding and block separators preserve readable text; nonvisible script/style/template and explicitly hidden nodes are excluded.
• FaqPage renders its existing slot once, displays that same HTML, and passes it to FAQAccordion as sourceHtml. The builder groups direct H3 questions and following siblings just as the unchanged browser enhancement does. Nested H4/H5 headings and lists stay inside their answer. All 70 questions are now described in server JSON-LD, including with JavaScript disabled.
• A runtime-only selector without server source emits no invented FAQ schema. Supplied items cannot be mixed with a runtime source. Empty groups emit none.
• Schema IDs use the manifest canonical. Any retained component canonical prop must agree with it; conflicting values fail. Existing canonical props and article content are unchanged.
• Empty questions/answers and duplicate questions fail. A request-scoped Astro.locals claim rejects a second FAQ schema-producing accordion on the same page. Separate rendered pages do not share this state. Existing organization, article and FAQ blocks coexist with distinct entity IDs.
• JSON-LD escapes < so script-like text cannot terminate its HTML script element. This is exercised in both helper and rendered-article fixtures.

Result: 21 FAQPage blocks, 197 questions (125 article, two insurance, 70 standalone), and 63 BlogPosting blocks (65 articles minus two syndicated exceptions). No unrelated schema types or new organization entities were added.

Date-Display Defect Found During Validation

The build host uses America/Phoenix. Existing article/card date formatting converted date-only frontmatter through that timezone: declared 2024-12-02 appeared as December 1 despite the machine-readable time retaining December 2. That would make the new schema disagree with the displayed calendar day.

The minimal correction adds timeZone: 'UTC' to the two existing article/card formatters. It preserves declared dates, formatting options and locale, and does not update any article to match a newer production publication date. On this host it corrects 130 labels: 65 article dates and 65 Library-card dates. SEO tests explicitly build under America/Phoenix and compare both visible formats with each record's declared date in all three languages. This is a rendering-consistency fix within Phase 4B, distinct from Phase 6C date research.

Phase 6C Drift and Remaining Uncertainty

• Spanish self-advocacy still declares 2024-12-02 locally, while the current production article declares/displays April 9, 2026. Its local publication record was not rewritten. Reconcile translation publication history in Phase 6C; do not mistake the timezone repair for this separate correction.
• English school-readiness has seven older local FAQ items around the former academy/program description. Production has nine questions about current school-readiness skills and ABA's relationship to school. Its shared academy question also has a different answer. Title/content/FAQ reconciliation stays in Phase 6C; no answers or Library bodies changed here.
• Production article modification timestamps and localized bylines are richer than current local records. They were observed but not imported into otherwise unreconciled records. No claim of full current-content parity is made.
• The 70 standalone questions are derived from actual rendered local source. Text extraction shows punctuation/HTML-spacing differences from production; this milestone is not a sentence-by-sentence clinical/content review.

Schema.org still defines BlogPosting and FAQPage. Google's article documentation supports applicable, source-backed properties without requiring fabricated optional fields. Its current changelog records removal of FAQ rich results beginning May 7, 2026 and removal of that feature's documentation in June. This implementation preserves semantic FAQ markup and source fidelity; it makes no promise of Google FAQ rich results.

The browser tool returned Transport closed, so interactive desktop/mobile checks could not run. The accordion's client code and CSS are unchanged, and all-route rendered comparisons verify content/markup, scripts and style content. Browser interaction/visual confirmation and external rich-result tooling remain manual checks; no remote validator submission or deployment was performed.

Validation and Artifact Invariants

Final npm run test:seo: 22 passed, comprising the 12 Phase 4A tests plus 10 structured-data/date tests. Coverage includes en/es/ar articles, absent optional metadata, declared/modified dates, exact author resolution, noindex, external canonical and draft exclusions, every rendered FAQ answer, the standalone runtime source, empty/unknown sources, multiple JSON-LD blocks, duplicate/conflicting schema failures, safe serialization and timezone behavior. npm run test:publication: 33 passed with no changes to that suite.

An initial standalone-FAQ assertion incorrectly compared sibling text without block-boundary whitespace. The assertion was corrected and extraction now explicitly preserves block separators. After the date-display defect was found and fixed, the full tests/build/audit sequence was rerun successfully:

cd www
npm run test:seo
npm run test:publication
npm run build
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build
npm run audit:routes -- --offline
npm run audit:routes -- --check
npm run audit:links
npm run audit:blog
npm run audit:images
npm run build
npm run audit:routes -- --offline
npm run audit:routes -- --check
git diff --check

Both normal builds and the indexing-enabled build checked 74 files with zero errors, warnings or hints. Link, blog and mapped-image audits each reported zero failures. All selected article schema images resolve to local public assets.

Final artifact	Verified UTC, 2026-10-08	HTML routes	Sitemap URLs	Robots	Hreflang
Indexing-enabled local	22:21:40	96	92	92 index,follow; four noindex,follow	174 links on 53 routes, unchanged 24 sets
Normal staging, restored	22:22:24	96	0	All 96 noindex,nofollow	Zero links

The route set remains 67 English, 21 Spanish and eight Arabic. All 96 canonicals, non-schema metadata, H1s, HTML language/direction and translation choices match the starting artifact/policy. Existing MedicalOrganization objects match on all 96 routes. Body markup and scripts match after accounting for the explicit date-label fix, added JSON-LD, whitespace and pre-existing random contact IDs. All inline CSS declarations and stylesheet URLs are unchanged. Astro moved the unchanged FAQ stylesheet link relative to an unrelated inline insurance-style block after making FAQ rendering asynchronous; no selectors/declarations changed.

The final durable evidence is route-reconciliation-2026-10-08-offline-22-22-25-260Z.json. It reuses all 70 historical discovery requests with their observation times. Route rows/totals remain unchanged: 129 discovered routes, historical production sitemap 102, local generated 96, overlap 92, and ten historical sitemap routes missing locally. Intermediate indexing evidence stayed in temporary storage; the prior committed audit evidence remains intact. No fresh crawl was made to refresh fingerprints; the targeted schema observations above are separately dated.

Read-only Structural Review

The complete Phase 4B change set has nine files, all relative to www/:

Classification	File	Purpose
Structured-data core, new	src/utils/structured-data.ts	Publication-gated builders, author validation, visible FAQ extraction, safe JSON serialization
Article presentation/schema	src/layouts/BlogPostLayout.astro	Typed article entry, head-slot BlogPosting, calendar-day formatting
Date presentation	src/components/BlogCard.astro	Same calendar-day correction for Library cards
Existing FAQ producer	src/components/FAQAccordion.astro	Shared builder, manifest canonical validation, rendered-source support, duplicate guard; client script/styles unchanged
Runtime FAQ source bridge	src/components/pages/FaqPage.astro	Render slot once for both visible source and server schema
Regression coverage	tools/seo.test.mjs	Extend existing actual-Astro tests; no parallel publication policy
Editing documentation	README.md	Schema/date/FAQ rules and known reconciliation boundaries
Milestone evidence	reports/migration-summary.md	This dated implementation and review record
Offline evidence, new	reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-08-offline-22-22-25-260Z.json	Final source fingerprint with preserved production discovery

No content/frontmatter records, content schemas, dependencies, publication or translation policy, routing, deployment files, employee-portal work or Ads handoff files were modified. merge-plan.md remains untracked and unchanged, SHA-256 015db80cdbaf7d68799265d2070db760155c342b432ce6795f17ebc2218c641c. There is no new blocking policy question; Phase 6C must resolve the documented content/date drift. Stop for implementation/diff acceptance before any checkpoint commit. Phase 5A has not started.

Phase 5A — Services, Referrals, and Consultation (2026-10-09 UTC)

Implemented from Phase 4B checkpoint 4079156776dd6b5a1b4e42b02dd9f680944484dd on faithful-astro-migration. This section records the implementation and read-only review; nothing is staged or committed. The shell's actual UTC retrieval date was October 9. AIA's governing editorial confirmation is dated October 8, 2026, as supplied by the user. Earlier reports and production observations remain historical evidence, not competing authority for the confirmed correction.

Scope, Authority, and Source Freshness

Inspected all seven English primary pages and all six existing Spanish counterparts: ABA therapy, autism evaluations, Learner Social Club, services, client consultation, intake, and English referrals. No Spanish referrals record exists; none was created. Also inspected English schedule consultation and insurance; FormShell, ServiceInquiryDrawer, ServicesPage, PageLayout, Button, shared service data and relevant navigation/CTA code. Publication, translation, heading, social and structured-data infrastructure was inspected and retained.

AIA explicitly confirmed general ABA eligibility as 18 months through 8 years / 18 meses a 8 años and superseded broader children/teens descriptions. This decision governs the in-scope edits even when cached production content conflicts. It is resolved, not a human-decision blocker. It does not establish ages for the Academy, Social Club or diagnostic evaluations.

Durable new source evidence: phase-5a-source-evidence-2026-10-09.json. It records exact URLs, request times, HTTP status, request/response cache indicators, body hashes, titles, descriptions, H1s, canonicals, selected source excerpts and CTA destinations. It contains no complete HTML captures or cookies.

There were 23 successful read-only GETs: AIA robots, 15 targeted AIA pages, four cache rechecks, Jotform robots and two bare Jotform destination status checks. Page requests were sequential with at least 1.1 seconds between them; redirects were not followed. AIA robots allowed the selected paths. Jotform robots permits the bare numeric paths; its disallowed tracking-query form variant was not fetched. No scripts, forms, APIs, authenticated operations, tracking endpoints or production writes were executed. A web-tool robots attempt failed before the successful direct retrieval. The independent browser attempt failed with Transport closed; no browser response was obtained.

Every AIA page request sent Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0 and Pragma: no-cache. Responses still carried Cloudflare/HubSpot cache indicators: Cache-Control: s-maxage=36000, max-age=5 and X-HS-Cache-Control: s-maxage=36000, max-age=0. Age, page ETag and CF-Cache-Status were absent; X-HS-CF-Cache-Status, Last-Modified, X-HS-Prerendered, response Date and CF-Ray are saved where available. Prerender dates matched Last-Modified. HTTP 200, MISS and REVALIDATED do not prove that the underlying prerendered content contains the newest edits.

Initial source observations (all times UTC, October 9, 2026):

Source URL	Request time	HTTP	X-HS-CF-Cache-Status	Last-Modified (GMT)
/aba-therapy	01:26:21	200	HIT	Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:27:01 GMT
/autism-evaluations	01:26:22	200	HIT	Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:13:18 GMT
/learner-social-club	01:26:23	200	HIT	Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:13:14 GMT
/services	01:26:25	200	HIT	Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:13:23 GMT
/referrals	01:26:26	200	HIT	Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:45:35 GMT
/client-consultation	01:26:28	200	HIT	Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT
/aba-therapy-intake-process	01:26:29	200	HIT	Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:13:15 GMT
/es/aba-therapy	01:26:30	200	HIT	Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:13:14 GMT
/es/autism-evaluations	01:26:32	200	MISS	Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:13:12 GMT
/es/learner-social-club	01:26:33	200	MISS	Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:13:22 GMT
/es/services	01:26:35	200	REVALIDATED	Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:13:22 GMT
/es/client-consultation	01:26:36	200	REVALIDATED	Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:44 GMT
/es/aba-therapy-intake-process	01:26:38	200	MISS	Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:13:18 GMT
/schedule-consultation	01:26:39	200	REVALIDATED	Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:13:23 GMT
/insurance	01:26:41	200	HIT	Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:13:18 GMT

Rechecks at 01:28:06–01:28:10 used the same headers and the permitted unique query ?migration_review=20261009T0130 on /aba-therapy, /es/aba-therapy, /client-consultation and /schedule-consultation. All four returned HIT with identical extracted text and metadata to their initial responses. This does not guarantee an origin refresh. In particular, schedule consultation still returned “children and teens,” contradicting the newer AIA instruction; it is classified as potentially stale. Other responses corroborate the approved ABA ages and removal of teens from both client-consultation pages. Origin freshness remains inconclusive overall. No production change is inferred from response status alone.

Page-by-page Reconciliation

In this table, P means a newly retrieved production response with origin freshness inconclusive (see the exact request time above). E means AIA's confirmed October 8 editorial instruction. P/E records do not assert cache bypass success. CTA resolutions are detailed separately below.

Route / language	Claim or element	Previous Astro state	Retrieved production state	Editorial requirement	Source time / freshness	Resolution and notes
/aba-therapy en	Individual 1:1 age	“children aged 2 to 8 years”	“children aged 18 months to 8 years”	“18 months through 8 years”	P 01:26:21 + E; origin inconclusive, decision confirmed	Changed to “children aged 18 months through 8 years”
/aba-therapy en	Section heading	“Behavioral Services We Offer”	“Services We Offer”	—	P 01:26:21; origin inconclusive	Changed label; explicitly retain behavioral-services-we-offer ID to preserve existing fragment URLs
/aba-therapy en	Group program	1:2 Academic Readiness, ages 2–6, AIA Preparatory Academy©	Same distinct program, ratios, range and branding	General age rule does not override this program	P 01:26:21	Retained paragraphs, electives and 2–6 range; no clinical claims added
/es/aba-therapy es	General/1:1 eligibility	“personas de 2 a 17 años de edad, que han sido diagnosticadas”; “niños de 2 a 8 años”	General introduction says children; 1:1 says “niños de 18 meses a 8 años”	“18 meses a 8 años”	P 01:26:30 + E	Changed introduction to “niños de 18 meses a 8 años de edad, que han sido diagnosticados” and 1:1 to approved age phrase; preserves paragraph structure
/es/aba-therapy es	Academy branding	Link label “Academia Preparatoria AIA©”	Proper name “AIA Preparatory Academy©”	—	P 01:26:30; origin inconclusive	Use source-supported proper name; retain existing https://aiaprep.org/ destination and 2–6 group-program range
/autism-evaluations en	Meta description	Ends at “support your child”	Ends at “support your child's unique development.”	—	P 01:26:22; origin inconclusive	Restore the complete source description; title and H1 unchanged
/autism-evaluations en; /es/autism-evaluations es	Diagnostic services	Separate ASD, ADHD and combined evaluation; ADOS discussion	Same offerings and clinical descriptions	Do not inherit ABA ages	P 01:26:22 / 01:26:32	Body retained. “Children of all ages” describes the tool; it is not verified clinic eligibility. No clinic age limits, staffing or prerequisites invented
/learner-social-club en; /es/learner-social-club es	Age, schedule, payment and enrollment	Ages 8–17; 4–6 PM Mon/Wed or Wed; private pay; potty training; 30-day pause notice; one-day trial by email	Matches retrieved page content and metadata in each language	Separate program	P 01:26:23 / 01:26:33	All facts retained. Only enrollment CTA destination changes; availability still requires confirmation before activation
/services en; /es/services es	Services, geography/options and clinical copy	In-center/school/home, early intervention, academic readiness, supervision, parent consultation; “1 in 36 … each year”	Matches retrieved content, including the prevalence wording	Do not manufacture service availability	P 01:26:25 / 01:26:35	Retained. English body is owned by ServicesPage, not its MDX slot. No need to edit either English duplicate. Clinical statistic held for review rather than silently replacing it
/es/services es	Home breadcrumb	/	/es/?hsLang=es	Keep published language routing	P 01:26:35	Changed to /es; existing Spanish service/consultation links remain localized, rather than copying production English paths with hsLang=es
/referrals en	Referral audience	“educational and therapeutic programs for children ages 2-17”	Same sentence with “18 months to 8 years”	Confirmed range is general ABA, not every program	P 01:26:26 + E	“ABA therapy programs for children ages 18 months through 8 years”; explicitly limits the claim to ABA. Existing provider/insurer collaboration and reporting descriptions retained
/client-consultation en	Audience/introduction	“Here at”; two “children and teens” references	“At”; both references say “children”	Approved ABA age and audience	P 01:26:28 + E	Source intro “At”; remove teens; ABA services sentence specifies “children aged 18 months through 8 years.” No-wait-list and existing Phoenix-area geography retained pending operational confirmation
/es/client-consultation es	Audience	Two “niños y adolescentes” references	Both say “niños”	Approved Spanish ABA age/audience	P 01:26:36 + E	Remove “y adolescentes”; ABA sentence specifies “niños de 18 meses a 8 años.” Remaining Spanish copy unchanged
/aba-therapy-intake-process en; /es/aba-therapy-intake-process es	Intake steps and CTA	Six steps; verification of insurance, copays and required authorizations; final label is plain text	Same six-step process with final consultation link	No new universal prerequisites	P 01:26:29 / 01:26:38	Steps and insurance wording retained; restore styled linked CTA using existing local consultation pages. No intake packet/submission functionality added
/schedule-consultation en	Audience	Two “children and teens” references	Same superseded wording despite recheck	E overrides stale response	P 01:26:39 / recheck 01:28:10, potentially stale + E	Remove teens and explicitly state ABA age range in ABA services sentence. Retain noindex, existing geography/contact details and disabled form; do not treat response as fresh editorial authority
/insurance en	Plans/payment and FAQ	Logo list and existing ECHO/ESA FAQ claims	Same visible carrier logos/FAQ text	No plan-to-plan generalization	P 01:26:41; origin inconclusive	Unchanged; independently compared this page rather than assuming service/form fields establish every plan's coverage. Participation/coverage details remain unverified

No article, FAQ answer, homepage, team or portal content was changed. No new Spanish records, translations or translation keys were introduced. All page titles and visible H1s remain unchanged. The evaluation description is the only frontmatter value changed. Changes to metadata values use the existing SEO pipeline; no schema-generation rule or organization data changed.

CTA Reconciliation and Disabled Forms

Bare production Jotform destinations 231638510219149 and 250727122848156 returned HTTP 200 at 01:30:34 and 01:30:35 respectively. These were GET status checks only, with response bodies/scripts unused; availability does not approve collection or establish form field/backend equivalence. The referral query variant was not requested because of Jotform robots policy.

Route(s)	Production label / destination	Previous Astro label / destination	Implemented migration destination / verification	Integration dependency
/aba-therapy, /autism-evaluations	“Make an Appointment” → https://form.jotform.com/231638510219149	Same label and external URL	Same label → /client-consultation; generated destination exists, live consultation 200	Existing disabled consultation shell; this is an inquiry path, not a booked appointment
/es/aba-therapy	“Hacer una cita” → same Jotform	Same label as unlinked text	Same label → /es/client-consultation; generated/live 200	Same disabled shell; human Spanish form review still needed
/es/autism-evaluations	“Programar una cita” → same Jotform	Same label as unlinked text	Same label → /es/client-consultation; generated/live 200	Evaluation intake/backend not implemented
Both Learner Social Club routes	“Enroll Now” → same Jotform (English label also on Spanish production)	Same label/external URL	Same label → corresponding English/Spanish consultation page; both resolve	Does not enroll or reserve a place; backend and service-specific process remain gated
Both Social Club routes, trial inquiry	One-day trial via obfuscated info@azinstitute4autism.com	Same address/ContactObfuscation behavior	Retained; no email sent	Trial availability must be confirmed by AIA
/services	“Consult with a Client Advocate” / “Get a Free Consultation” → /client-consultation?hsLang=en	Same labels → /client-consultation	Retained normalized local destination; resolves	Disabled consultation shell
/es/services	“Consulte con un Defensor del Cliente” → /es/client-consultation?hsLang=es; “Programe una consulta gratuita” → English path with hsLang=es	Both labels → /es/client-consultation	Retain existing real Spanish destination; resolves	Do not guess language from a query parameter
/referrals	“Refer a Client” → https://form.jotform.com/231638510219149?hsCtaAttrib=203953990377	Unlinked “Refer a Client”; existing disabled FormShell below	Same label → #form-title; exactly one matching element in generated page	Safe static referral placeholder; clinical referral workflow/required fields still need approval
Both intake routes	“Take the First Step” → /client-consultation?hsLang=en or ?hsLang=es	Same unlinked label	/client-consultation or /es/client-consultation; both resolve	Starts inquiry, does not submit the described learner packet
Both client-consultation routes	Embedded Jotform 250727122848156	Disabled local FormShell	Unchanged disabled shell; no embed, submit or success state added	Production form/backend/privacy approval outstanding
/schedule-consultation and service drawers	Production HubSpot/runtime form behavior; not executed	Disabled forms and call fallback	Retained; submission buttons disabled, no action destination, existing preventDefault handlers	Field parity, availability, clinical routing and backend require separate scoped activation

The intentional temporary deviation is routing conversion links to existing local disabled inquiry pages instead of third-party lead collection. Existing form text explicitly states “Online submission is not yet connected” and offers the existing phone fallback. No functioning submission is implied by the target. Buttons retain source labels (including untranslated labels already present in Spanish production); no new marketing or translation wording was invented.

Five .md records became .mdx because they now genuinely embed the existing Button component: English referrals and intake, Spanish ABA, evaluations and intake. Their collection IDs/slugs/public routes do not change. No routing or layout conditionals were added. Existing Button styling is reused. FormShell, ServiceInquiryDrawer, client scripts, fields, privacy behavior and form handlers are unchanged. Production promises about callbacks/availability are retained as source copy, not enabled functionality; they need review before activation.

Repository-wide Eligibility Language Audit

Searched the full application source (pages/blog/authors, frontmatter, schema, components, shared data and navigation), plus CMS configuration, for hyphen/en and em-dash ranges, “to”/“a”/“hasta,” ages/years/months, Spanish niños/adolescentes, English children/teens and Arabic age/adolescent terms. A broad semantic pass produced 204 candidate lines, including non-eligibility words in code. Context review excludes biographies, testimonials, generic developmental examples, clinical research ages and historical reports from current AIA eligibility corrections. Prior reports and baseline JSON are preserved, not globally replaced. Locations below refer to the Phase 4B starting checkpoint unless marked current.

Classification	File / location (relative to www/)	Exact relevant wording	Meaning, resolution and assigned phase
Corrected within Phase 5A	src/content/pages/en/aba-therapy.mdx:27	“children aged 2 to 8 years”	ABA 1:1 → confirmed 18 months through 8 years
Corrected within Phase 5A	src/content/pages/es/aba-therapy.md:12,24 (now .mdx)	“personas de 2 a 17 años de edad”; “niños de 2 a 8 años”	General ABA/1:1 → approved Spanish range and agreement
Corrected within Phase 5A	src/content/pages/en/referrals.md:14 (now .mdx)	“programs for children ages 2-17”	Referral ABA eligibility → confirmed range, explicitly scoped to ABA
Corrected within Phase 5A	src/content/pages/en/client-consultation.md:10,14	“children and teens”; “ABA therapy for children and teens”	Remove superseded audience; explicit ABA range
Corrected within Phase 5A	src/content/pages/es/client-consultation.md:10,14	“niños y adolescentes”; “terapia ABA para niños y adolescentes”	Remove superseded audience; explicit approved Spanish range
Corrected within Phase 5A	src/content/pages/en/schedule-consultation.mdx:33,37	“children and teens diagnosed with autism”	Correct despite potentially stale retrieval; noindex retained
Legitimate program-specific requirement	Both ABA page records, group-program paragraph (en:37, es:34 before rename)	“children aged 2 to 6 years”; “niños de 2 a 6 años”	Academic Readiness 1:2, supported by separate live program sections; retained
Legitimate program-specific requirement	Both Social Club records, descriptions and en:43 / es:50	“8–17 years”; “jóvenes de 8 a 17 años”	Club ages, separate from ABA; retained, with private-pay distinction
Legitimate program-specific requirement	src/data/services.json:16	“Social and emotional learning opportunities for children and teens.”	Sociological card links specifically to the 8–17 Club; not general ABA; retained
Potentially outdated, deferred to another phase	src/content/pages/en/index.md:14,23	“clinical care for children and teens who have an autism diagnosis”; “ABA Therapy Services for Children and Teens Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder”	General ABA/homepage claims; Phase 5B, untouched
Potentially outdated, deferred to another phase	src/content/pages/es/index.md:14,23	“atención clínica experta para niños y adolescentes con diagnóstico de autismo”; “Servicios de terapia ABA para niños y adolescentes diagnosticados con TEA”	Spanish homepage general ABA claims; Phase 5B, source/language review in Phase 7 as needed; untouched
Potentially outdated, deferred to another phase	src/content/blog/en/aba-therapy-summer-routine-tips.mdx:20,149	“resources tailored for children ages 2–17”; “In-clinic ABA therapy for children ages 2–8”	General AIA/ABA claims; Phase 6C. Club-specific “In-clinic Social Learners Club for ages 8-17” at :151 is separate and retained
Potentially outdated, deferred to another phase	src/content/blog/en/community-highlight-meet-rula-diab.md:31,33,39	“clinical care for children and teens diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders”; “Our range of services for children and teens includes:”; “ABA Therapy Services for Children & teens”	Syndicated interview/ABA claims; Phase 6C, including original-source/editorial treatment; external canonical and noindex preserved
Potentially outdated, deferred to another phase	src/content/blog/en/aba-school-readiness-arizona.mdx:2,3,18,154,155	“AIA Preparatory Academy (Ages 2–6)”; “We currently serve children ages 2 to 6 who are in their most critical years of early development.”	Academy-specific range is not automatically wrong, but article was rewritten live (Phase 4B evidence). Phase 6C, not globally changed to ABA range
Potentially outdated, deferred to another phase	src/content/blog/es/aba-school-readiness-arizona.mdx:2,3,18,72,154,155	“Academia Preparatoria AIA (2 a 6 años)”; “Actualmente atendemos a niños de 2 a 6 años que se encuentran en sus años más críticos de desarrollo temprano.”	Same program/context distinction; Phase 6C, human language review/Phase 7 where needed
Potentially outdated, deferred to another phase	src/data/blog-footers.json:352,551 and src/content/pages/es/library.md:14	“Ya se inscriben alumnos: Academia Preparatoria AIA para niños de 2 a 6 años”	Related/popular Library titles reflecting the older article; Phase 6C, untouched
Potentially outdated, deferred to another phase	src/data/blog-footers.json:629,749,948,959,1237,1657,1671,1724,1761	“Now Enrolling: AIA Preparatory Academy for Children Ages 2–6”	Library links/title drift, not proof of wrong program eligibility; Phase 6C
Unresolved and requiring additional factual verification	src/content/pages/en/tour.md:88	“Learner Teen Group Area”	Room description may relate to the Club; no inference that ABA serves teens. Later scoped tour review, unchanged
Unresolved and requiring additional factual verification	src/content/pages/en/client-forms.mdx:82,83	“Step 4a: Print & Sign (Age 2 - 5)”; “Step 4b: Print & Sign (Ages 6+)”	Diagnostic paperwork bands, not general ABA eligibility; later forms/evaluation review, unchanged

Context exclusions, deliberately not labeled ABA eligibility errors: en/faqs.mdx:34 discusses learners of any age and generic intervention evidence; en/early-signs-autism-by-age.mdx discusses 12–24 months / 2–4 years; en/es diagnostic-guide tables discuss 2–4 years; en/es/ar executive-functioning articles discuss developmental stages including adolescence (en:82,96,110,112; corresponding translated sections); homepage testimonials mention starting at 21 months. No Arabic AIA ABA eligibility claim matching the superseded range was identified. None of these files was edited, and this screening is not a clinical or linguistic certification.

Human-decision / Factual-verification Register

These are held questions for later reconciliation or activation, not reasons to defer the already-confirmed ABA age correction:

Area	Evidence / limitation	Current safe disposition and decision needed
Program availability	Both ABA pages retain 2–6 Academic Readiness/Academy; both Club pages retain 8–17 and schedules; drawer claims enrollment open	Preserve distinct source-supported ranges. Confirm present enrollment, electives and schedules operationally before activating inquiries; do not infer closure or new ages from unrelated Library rewrites
Insurance participation	Insurance page shows BCBS, Aetna, Optum, Tricare, AHCCCS and United Healthcare logos. Local drawer specifically lists United Healthcare AHCCCS and additional payment choices; live runtime form fields were not executed/recovered	Logos do not prove all AHCCCS plans or all offered services are covered. Retain existing plan-specific wording; AIA billing must confirm exact networks, service coverage, authorizations, referrals and diagnostic prerequisites. No universal coverage rule added
Service geography / waits	Client pages claim no wait list and Phoenix-area coverage; schedule page additionally claims Tucson in-home service; its audience copy demonstrably conflicts with E	No new locations, wait times or staffing claims. Existing geography/wait copy held pending operational confirmation; inquiry drawer's guarantee language is also unverified, not strengthened
Clinical/evaluation claims	Services pages retain “1 in 36 … each year”; evaluations describe multidisciplinary teams and ADOS for children of all ages	Public page text is not independent clinical validation. Clinical owner should verify statistic/annual wording, actual evaluation staffing, accepted patient ages and referral/diagnosis requirements; no clinical replacement was invented
Referrals / intake	Production referrals uses a general Jotform; local generic FormShell cannot establish clinician referral fields or delivery workflow. Intake describes packets but has no functioning packet collection	Referral CTA exposes the disabled existing local form; intake goes to the local consultation page. Approve routing, required fields and privacy before backend activation; no successful referral or completed intake is implied
CTA/form backend	Production Jotform URLs resolve; local forms explicitly unavailable	Review the intentional local inquiry destinations as part of this milestone. Production collection, callback promises, backend choice and privacy approval remain separately gated; no Ads tags or analytics added
Contact freshness	Potentially stale schedule page retains info@abaclinicaz.com, whereas Club inquiry uses info@azinstitute4autism.com	Different addresses alone do not prove an error. Keep existing source-backed addresses, confirm intended consultation contact with AIA in a scoped follow-up

Multilingual Review Register

• Explicitly approved wording: Spanish ABA 1:1 and consultation now use 18 meses a 8 años. The ABA introduction replaces personas ... diagnosticadas with niños ... diagnosticados, preserving grammatical agreement. Both consultation references remove y adolescentes. These implement AIA's approved correction, not invented translations. Have a human Spanish editor review the revised sentences before publication; fluency is not self-approved.
• Source-supported proper name: Academia Preparatoria AIA© becomes AIA Preparatory Academy©, matching Spanish production; no curriculum claim or destination changed. Include this branding choice in language review.
• Existing labels retained: Hacer una cita, Programar una cita, Enroll Now and Take the First Step match the corresponding production labels. The last two remain English on Spanish pages; do not fabricate translations here.
• Existing form limitation: FormShell's explanatory copy/fields are English even on the Spanish consultation route. No sourced Spanish form was available from the unexecuted embed. Additional form localization belongs to a separately supported review (Phase 7/form milestone), not speculative translation now.
• Spanish evaluation body, Club rules, intake steps and existing translations otherwise remain intact. The services breadcrumb now correctly links to /es.

Validation and Existing Test-harness Defect

The first test:markdown invocation failed in suite setup with Route is not published: /school-en. Phase 4B's FAQ component resolves the publication manifest from Astro.url, but the older Markdown test rendered real FAQ-bearing content at synthetic aliases. An isolated copy of the untouched 4079156 checkpoint reproduced exactly the same failure. This was not caused by the Phase 5A content changes.

The bounded correction is in tools/markdown.test.mjs: keep test aliases as lookup keys but render each real record at its actual language/collection URL. All original 20 assertions remain. No parser, FAQ, publication rule, route file or application code was changed to make the test pass. No failure was ignored.

tools/seo.test.mjs adds four actual-Astro regression tests covering approved general ABA ages/audiences, retained program ranges/ratios/payment distinctions, 14 CTA/breadcrumb cases with real route/fragment targets, disabled forms, language/direction, one H1 and the repaired evaluation description. The existing 22 SEO tests and 33 publication tests remain. The old ABA section fragment is also asserted. Tests use temporary copies; no fixture routes enter dist.

Check	Final result
npm run test:seo	26 passed; zero failures/skips
npm run test:publication	33 passed; zero failures/skips
npm run test:markdown	20 passed after the verified baseline fixture correction; zero failures/skips
npm run build (initial normal)	Passed; 96 HTML routes; zero Astro check errors/warnings/hints
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build	Passed; 96 routes, 92 sitemap URLs, 174 hreflang links across 53 pages
npm run audit:routes -- --check	Passed against newly generated offline evidence in each build mode
npm run audit:links	Zero broken internal links
npm run audit:blog	Zero blog content audit failures
npm run audit:images	Zero missing mapped page images
npm run build (final normal)	Passed; 96 routes, all noindex,nofollow, empty sitemap, no hreflang
git diff --check	Passed

Source fingerprint refreshes used npm run audit:routes -- --offline, never a new crawl. The final saved reconciliation is route-reconciliation-2026-10-09-offline.json. All 70 historical discovery requests, original observation dates, baseline and summary totals are preserved by deep comparison. Changed local rows reflect five source-extension changes and the repaired description, not newly discovered production routes. Historical totals remain 129 discovered route keys, 102 production-sitemap entries, 96 generated local routes, 92 overlaps and ten historical sitemap routes missing locally. Do not confuse that historical 102-entry inventory with the current local 92-entry production-policy sitemap. The intermediate indexing reconciliation is retained only under /tmp.

All-route generated HTML comparison against the starting staging artifact confirmed identical route sets, canonicals, document titles, visible H1s, HTML languages/directions, JSON-LD objects and header/language-switcher links. All stable pre-existing main-content IDs remain; random contact-obfuscation IDs are excluded. Visible prose differs only on the six eligibility/heading pages; other edits change links or the one description without changing their labels. There are no new images, styles, layout components or client scripts. MD-to-MDX conversion preserves headings, paragraphs and lists apart from the documented CTA conversion; existing styled Button markup is reused.

The indexing artifact was checked at 01:34:18 UTC; the restored staging artifact was independently checked at 03:33:00 UTC. The later check time reflects resumed work, not a new production observation. Production mode still has 92 index,follow routes and the same four noindex,follow exceptions. /ar remains unpublished, and all noindex/external-canonical exclusions persist. All 63 BlogPosting, 21 FAQPage and 96 existing organization blocks are unchanged. No publication, canonical, schema, robots, sitemap or translation policy changed.

Browser-level desktop/mobile validation could not run because the browser transport was unavailable. Generated HTML, existing CSS reuse, one-H1/ID checks, link and image checks support the content review; they do not certify visual or interactive browser fidelity. No claim of completed pixel matching is made.

Read-only Structural Review and File Inventory

There are 18 logical changed/new files, including five .md → .mdx conversions (23 paths in an unstaged status listing). All paths below are relative to www/:

Classification	Files	Why required
English content	src/content/pages/en/aba-therapy.mdx, autism-evaluations.mdx, client-consultation.md, learner-social-club.mdx, schedule-consultation.mdx	Confirmed ABA facts, one source heading/description and safe local CTAs
English content conversions	src/content/pages/en/referrals.md → .mdx; aba-therapy-intake-process.md → .mdx	Use the existing Button component for previously inert CTA labels; referral range correction
Spanish content	src/content/pages/es/client-consultation.md, learner-social-club.mdx, services.mdx	Approved audience/age correction, local enrollment destination, localized breadcrumb
Spanish content conversions	src/content/pages/es/aba-therapy.md → .mdx; autism-evaluations.md → .mdx; aba-therapy-intake-process.md → .mdx	Approved ages/source branding and existing-label Button CTAs, with stable record identity
Regression coverage	tools/seo.test.mjs, tools/markdown.test.mjs	Four focused service tests; restore original Markdown suite compatibility with accepted Phase 4B
Dated evidence, new	reports/phase-5a-source-evidence-2026-10-09.json	Cache-aware targeted observations, separate from historical audit
Offline reconciliation, new	reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-09-offline.json	Refresh local source evidence without rewriting production observations
Milestone report	reports/migration-summary.md	This reconciliation, audit, decisions, validation and review

Reviewed changes do not touch dependencies, application configuration, shared SEO/publication/translation/schema code, FormShell, ServiceInquiryDrawer, ServicesPage, shared service data, homepage, Library, team, employee portal, Ads handoff/landing pages, consent, analytics, deployment or Git configuration. No routes, H1 fields or translation relationships were added. No forms were activated, submitted or connected. No files are staged; no commit or push was made. Phase 5B and all other reconciliation phases remain unstarted.

The existing untracked merge-plan.md remains unchanged, SHA-256: 015db80cdbaf7d68799265d2070db760155c342b432ce6795f17ebc2218c641c.

Phase 5B — Homepage Content Reconciliation (2026-10-09 UTC)

Implemented on faithful-astro-migration, starting at the accepted Phase 5A checkpoint 051fb7c1081614329dd65cf9e72a496d851b2c37. This section records a new observation and implementation milestone; it does not replace the earlier audit or Phase 5A evidence. Scope is the English / and Spanish /es homepages, their section model/components, focused tests and documentation. Detailed visual fidelity remains Phase 8. No changes are staged or committed.

Evidence, Dates and Cache Limitations

Evidence labels used below:

• E — Implemented from confirmed AIA editorial requirements: the user's organizational confirmation dated 2026-10-08: general ABA eligibility is 18 months through 8 years / 18 meses a 8 años; general ABA audience wording referring to children and teens is superseded. This decision is resolved.
• P — Implemented from production evidence: exact content observed in this phase's bounded public GET responses. Publication on the retrieved page is verified; current origin freshness and underlying business eligibility are not independently established.
• R — Retained because current content is supported: existing content matches those retrieved responses, subject to the same cache limitations.
• D — Deferred due to uncertainty: needs factual/operational or language review.
• O — Outside Phase 5B scope: preserved for its assigned later milestone.

New machine-readable evidence: phase-5b-source-evidence-2026-10-09.json. It records exact URLs, UTC timestamps, status, selected cache headers, body hashes, source metadata/headings, section order, important copy, lists, images and alt text, CTA destinations, before/after field changes and output checks. Raw HTML, cookies and broad production captures are not committed.

Request	Retrieval UTC, 2026-10-09	Status / cache evidence
https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/robots.txt	03:47:42	200; HIT; permits these homepage/asset requests; avoids disallowed preview/cache-buster paths
https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/	03:48:03.652341	200; X-HS-CF-Cache-Status: HIT; Last-Modified and X-HS-Prerendered 2026-10-03 23:58:31 GMT
https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/es	03:48:05.022332	301 to https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/es/; Cache-Control max-age=120
https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/es/	03:48:06.491271	200; HIT; Last-Modified and X-HS-Prerendered 2026-10-04 00:02:11 GMT
https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/?migration_review=20261009T0348	03:48:07.882981	200; HIT; byte-identical to first English response
https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/es/?migration_review=20261009T0348	03:48:09.218681	200; HIT; byte-identical to first Spanish response
https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/hubfs/hsa-fsa-accepted.png	03:51:40.337258	200 PNG; CF-Cache-Status: HIT; Age 1891407; Last-Modified 2026-07-07 19:44:58 GMT; ETag recorded in JSON

Seven successful HTTP requests, including the redirect response and image; no production writes, script execution, submissions, API calls or broad crawl. Homepage requests were sequential, at least 1.1 seconds apart, with Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0 and Pragma: no-cache. HTML responses have Cache-Control: s-maxage=36000, max-age=5, X-HS-Cache-Control: s-maxage=36000, max-age=0, Server: cloudflare and CF-Ray identifiers. Age, ETag and CF-Cache-Status were absent on those HTML responses. The first web-retrieval attempt for robots failed; direct retrieval succeeded. An independent browser attempt failed with Transport closed.

Fresh retrieval is not proof of fresh origin content. The English hero still says “children and teens,” even though its services headings and metadata have changed. The Spanish hero already says “niños,” but the duplicated responsive services headings disagree: one still says “niños y adolescentes.” AIA's E correction governs both local homepages. Query variants and no-cache headers did not establish origin freshness; retries stopped after one recheck per language. Other source-backed copy is carried forward with these limitations.

English / Spanish Section Inventory and Resolution

All existing YAML sections were inspected, including headings, body text, list order, image filenames/alt text and CTA references. Paragraph/list text comparison normalized whitespace and typographic apostrophes; existing local editorial formatting, descriptive alt text and historical quotations are retained. No existing section was found to have been removed in either retrieved page.

Order	Section	English comparison / resolution	Spanish comparison / resolution	Classification
1	Hero	Preserve eyebrow, H1 markup, image, geography and CTA; remove “and teens” from body despite stale source	Preserve eyebrow, H1 markup, image, geography and CTA; remove “y adolescentes,” also matching source hero	E; remaining fields R
2	Services introduction / commitments	Replace old audience heading with ABA-specific approved age range; add source word “Treatment” to “Integrated Therapy”; retain five service items and seven commitment items/order	Replace old audience heading with approved Spanish range; retain five services, seven commitments, images and source-supported existing wording	E, P, R
3	Benefits	Heading, subheading, four benefits, video URL/title/image supported; retained	Own published wording, four benefits and same video retained	R
4	Skills	Six skills and icons/order supported; retained	Six existing translated labels/icons/order supported; retained	R
5	Insurance	Heading/body and six carrier logos supported; retained	Own heading/body and same six logos supported; retained	R, D for coverage verification
6	ESA	Heading, one paragraph, dollar range and ADE image supported; retained	Own published heading/paragraph and ADE image supported; retained	R, D for eligibility/amounts
7 EN only	HSA/FSA	Missing locally; add exact published heading/paragraph and local copy of image, after ESA and before financial help	No equivalent in retrieved Spanish page; omit entirely	P; no invented translation
8 EN / 7 ES	Financial help	Existing heading, uninsured assistance/pay-over-time paragraph and CTA supported; retained	Own existing heading, paragraph and CTA supported; retained	R, D for program availability
9 EN / 8 ES	Process	Six cards present but inert locally; restore links and two incomplete source labels	Six source labels already match; restore links to Spanish intake headings	P; explicit local destination adaptation
10 EN / 9 ES	Clinical director	Heading, quote, Rula Diab name/credentials/photo/signature supported; unchanged	Own published heading/quote/name/credentials preserved	R
11 EN / 10 ES	Testimonials	Update heading “What Clients Are Saying” → “What Clients Say”; all 11 quotations/authors unchanged	Existing heading “Lo que dicen los clientes” and same 11 published English quotations unchanged	P for EN heading; R for quotes
12 EN / 11 ES	BACB/CASP logos	Missing locally; restore unlinked image row immediately after testimonials	Same row published; restore with exact source alt text, which is English	P

The logo row is inside production <main>, before the global footer, not a footer redesign. Its images already exist locally. No invented membership or certification paragraph, link or organization schema accompanies them.

Exact Substantive Copy and Metadata Changes

All P observations refer to the two homepage timestamps above; E refers to 2026-10-08. Full previous/current field values are also in the evidence JSON.

Route / field	Previous Astro	Resolution / source
/, title	ABA Therapy Near Me | Arizona Institute for Autism | Scottsdale	P: Scottsdale ABA Therapy for Children | Arizona Institute for Autism
/, description	Arizona Institute for Autism: center for behavioral health & education services located in Scottsdale. We serve individuals with Autism and their families.	P: Arizona Institute for Autism: center for behavioral health & education services in Scottsdale. We serve children diagnosed with autism and their families.
/, hero body phrase	clinical care for children and teens who have an autism diagnosis	E: clinical care for children who have an autism diagnosis; remaining sentence/geography untouched
/, services heading	ABA Therapy Services for Children and Teens Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder	E: ABA Therapy Services for Children 18 Months Through 8 Years Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder; production removes “and Teens,” while the explicit range comes from E
/, commitment item	Integrated Therapy	P: Integrated Therapy Treatment
/, process step 3	Fill and Sign an Intake Packet	P: Fill and Sign a Client Intake Packet
/, process step 4	Verify Billing and Insurance	P: Verify Billing and Insurance Information and Benefits
/, testimonials heading	What Clients Are Saying	P: What Clients Say
/es, hero body phrase	atención clínica experta para niños y adolescentes con diagnóstico de autismo	E + P: atención clínica experta para niños con diagnóstico de autismo
/es, services heading	Servicios de terapia ABA para niños y adolescentes diagnosticados con TEA	E: Servicios de terapia ABA para niños de 18 meses a 8 años diagnosticados con TEA

Both visible H1s are unchanged: English Behavioral Health & Special Education (with its existing line breaks) and Spanish Salud Mental y Educación Especial. Spanish title and description remain its own published values; they were not translated from the revised English metadata. The age range appears only in ABA-specific headings, not imposed on evaluations, the Social Club or other services. Historical testimonials, including the “21 months year old” statement, are untouched. This resolves the four homepage findings deferred by Phase 5A; its original eligibility audit remains intact as historical evidence.

English HSA/FSA Implementation and Source Qualifications

Exact published heading: Health Savings Accounts (HSA) & Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).

Exact substantive paragraph (only source nonbreaking whitespace normalized):

Many families can also utilize their HSA and FSA to fund care, which allow you to pay for qualified clinical services using pre-tax dollars. The Arizona Institute for Autism (AIA) accepts Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account cards directly, making it easier to manage out-of-pocket costs for your learner's treatment. If you participate in one of these employer-sponsored or individual accounts, you can seamlessly apply your available funds toward tuition and fees for our ABA programs.

The optional home.hsaFsa content block uses heading, body, image and imageAlt, validated through the existing Zod homepage model. Its dedicated HomeHsaFsa.astro component renders after ESA/before financial help, matching production: image left (5/12), text right (7/12), tinted background, one heading and one paragraph. A single-column layout applies below 760px. The exact 500×425 source PNG is self-hosted as public/assets/images/hsa-fsa-accepted.png (40,208 bytes), SHA-256 25d1a0c6ed1e156e0861071fa409b5b6908b7f3b02407066a0d3b7014b25c195. Source alt hsa-fsa-accepted is preserved. The artwork itself says “HSA APPROVED FSA”; it is published artwork, not an independent certification.

The qualifiers “Many families,” “qualified clinical services” and “If you participate” are preserved. The section does not claim every expense is eligible, provide a payment form, collect card data, load third-party scripts or add any JSON-LD. Spanish has no hsaFsa block and renders no empty placeholder.

home.logos is a separate optional items: [{ file, alt }] block for the observed final image row. Both optional sections are also supported by the existing sections: discriminated union. Existing homepage records without these blocks still render. home.process.steps[].href is optional; old steps without destinations remain plain content. The existing process-card wrappers, equal-height script, labels and styling remain except for accessible links and focus indication. README documents all new editing fields.

CTA Reconciliation

Production link labels/destinations are recorded verbatim in the evidence JSON. No production form was submitted or activated. The four destination pages were HTTP 200 in Phase 5A's 2026-10-09 01:26:28–01:26:38 UTC observations; those checks are explicitly inherited, not claimed as new Phase 5B retrievals. Generated local destinations and every new fragment are checked by regression assertions; all links/images pass local audits.

CTA / locale	Production destination	Previous Astro	Intended Astro / verification
EN Get Started, Schedule an Assessment (commitments), Request an Appointment	https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/client-consultation?hsLang=en	Same labels, /client-consultation	Retain local route; all three links resolve; disabled form remains explicitly unavailable
ES Empezar, Programar una evaluación (commitments), Solicitar cita	https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/client-consultation?hsLang=es	Same labels, /es/client-consultation	Retain real Spanish route rather than copying the production English-path destination; disabled form remains unavailable
Six EN process cards	/aba-therapy-intake-process#first-step through #sixth-step	Plain labels, no links	Add links to existing EN intake heading IDs below; step 3/4 labels corrected as above
Six ES process cards	English-path /aba-therapy-intake-process#first-step through #sixth-step, with Spanish labels	Plain labels, no links	Add links to existing Spanish intake heading IDs below; labels unchanged
Learner journey video, both	https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EczPH1jx9mc?si=beestOCaO4tL7Re6	Same existing VideoCard destination	Retained; not played/fetched; privacy/loading behavior unchanged

Intake destination mapping preserves section intent without editing the out-of-scope intake records or copying nonexistent local HubSpot fragment IDs:

Step / production fragment	EN local fragment on /aba-therapy-intake-process	ES local fragment on /es/aba-therapy-intake-process
1 / first-step	1-complete-the-learner-information-form	1-complete-el-formulario-de-información-del-estudiante
2 / second-step	2-speak-with-an-aia-client-advocate	2-hable-con-un-defensor-del-cliente-de-aia
3 / third-step	3-fill-out-and-sign-the-client-intake-packet	3-complete-y-firme-el-paquete-de-admisión-del-cliente
4 / fourth-step	4-verify-insurance-and-billing-information	4-verificar-la-información-del-seguro-y-la-facturación
5 / fifth-step	5-schedule-your-childs-assessment	5-programa-la-evaluación-de-tu-hijo
6 / sixth-step	6-collaborate-on-a-personalized-care-plan	6-colaborar-en-un-plan-de-atención-personalizado

No new route, redirect or form-activation behavior is introduced. Existing consultation forms continue to state that online submission is not connected; backend, privacy and workflow decisions remain separately gated.

Human-decision and Multilingual Review Registers

Classification / area	Supported observation	Uncertainty / action
R + D — Insurance	Both homepages explicitly name BCBS AZ, Aetna, Optum, Tricare, United Healthcare AHCCCS, UnitedHealth; six logos match	Retain exact plan-specific wording. AIA billing must confirm products, networks, authorization/diagnosis/referral requirements and covered services; no inference that all AHCCCS or all insurer products are accepted. Carries forward Phase 5A's gate
R + D — ESA	Both sources give $4,000 – $6,500 annually and say eligible families can apply funds to ABA tuition; ADE-vendor wording matches	Preserve existing qualified source wording, not a guarantee. Verify current award amounts, vendor status and eligible programs/expenses with AIA/ADE before public launch; no universal ESA eligibility inferred
P + D — HSA/FSA	EN source says AIA accepts account cards and funds may apply toward qualified care and ABA tuition/fees	Exact published copy/art retained. AIA billing/account administrators must verify card acceptance, eligible expenses and any additional qualifications; source alone does not establish reimbursement/tax eligibility. No independent financial advice or promise added
R + D — Financial assistance	Both sources describe assistance for the uninsured and paying over time	Eligibility, current availability and terms remain unverified. No financing product, universal approval, interest rate or new payment integration invented
R + D — Geography / availability	Existing Phoenix-area city list and in-center/in-home program commitments match retrieved sources	Current staffing, openings and service availability still need operational confirmation under Phase 5A's register; no new claims added
D — CTA/backend	Local EN/ES consultation and intake routes exist and resolve	Forms stay disabled. Backend, consent, privacy, callback/packet workflow and activation require separate authorization
D — Spanish language review	Hero removes y adolescentes; services heading inserts explicitly approved 18 meses a 8 años	Human Spanish editor should review the two revised sentences in context. This is approved wording applied narrowly, not a fabricated translation or self-approved fluency
P + D — Spanish source differences	Spanish metadata/section wording differs; no HSA/FSA section; English testimonials and new logo alt text are published that way	Preserve differences. Human language/accessibility review may later localize source-supported alt text/quotes; no translations invented here
O — Detailed fidelity / unrelated content	HSA and logos get scoped responsive CSS; other component styling retained	Phase 8 full-page desktop/mobile comparison, spacing/crops/typography and any shared header/footer reconciliation remain outstanding; Library, services beyond 5A, employee portal and Ads work untouched

There is no unresolved human decision about general ABA ages or the removal of the superseded audience wording. Remaining questions above concern separate financial, operational, language or integration facts.

Validation and Reproduction

Run from www/:

npm run test:seo
npm run test:publication
npm run test:markdown
npm run build
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build
# Refresh local fingerprint using saved evidence, without any live crawl:
npm run audit:routes -- --offline --evidence reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-09-offline.json
npm run audit:routes -- --check
npm run audit:links
npm run audit:images
npm run audit:blog
npm run build
# Preserve a separate reconciliation of the restored staging artifact:
npm run audit:routes -- --offline --evidence reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-09-offline.json
npm run audit:routes -- --check
git diff --check

The tool creates a new timestamp-suffixed report rather than overwriting existing evidence. This phase retains the final staging reconciliation as route-reconciliation-2026-10-09-offline-03-57-29-199Z.json. The intermediate indexing reconciliation was moved to /tmp after its check. All 70 inherited production requests, observation timestamps, production route records, original baseline and summary totals were preserved by deep comparison. No new production crawl was used to refresh the fingerprint. Only the local / route record changes title/description; generated route keys are unchanged. Historical discovery still has 129 route keys and 102 source sitemap URLs; those are not the current local 92-entry production-policy sitemap.

Check	Result
test:seo	30 passed, including four new homepage tests and all earlier SEO/service cases
test:publication	33 passed
test:markdown	20 passed
Initial normal, indexing-enabled, final normal builds	All pass; each 96 routes, Astro check 0 errors / 0 warnings / 0 hints
audit:routes -- --check	Pass for indexing and restored staging evidence; offline, no network
audit:links	0 broken internal links
audit:images	0 missing mapped page images; focused test also checks every homepage <img> asset
audit:blog	0 failures
git diff --check	Pass
Browser	Unavailable: Transport closed; no browser-level visual/interactive verification claimed

The first SEO run found two incorrect assumptions in the new tests: an Astro script/style node intervenes after testimonials, and the process and commitment CTAs share an assessment label. Assertions now check the next content element and distinguish consultation links from process links. Rerun passed all 30 tests; no application defect or relaxed route/eligibility requirement was involved.

Four focused tests cover valid/incomplete homepage schema input, present/absent optional blocks, old unlinked steps, approved ABA ranges and absent superseded audiences, retained 11 historical testimonials, source metadata, section order, English-only HSA/FSA and its qualifications, final logo row, one H1, same-language CTA routes and all 12 real intake IDs, disabled destination forms, local image files and absence of financial JSON-LD. Optional blocks/links are removed only inside the existing temporary fixture build to verify backward compatibility. Existing tests exercise publication metadata in both modes without duplicating its policy implementation.

Generated-output invariant	Indexing-enabled, checked 03:56:49 UTC	Final staging, checked 03:57:28 UTC
HTML routes	96, identical route set	96, identical route set
Sitemap URLs	92	0
Hreflang	174 links / 53 pages	0 links
Robots	Existing 92 indexable / four noindex exceptions	Every page noindex,nofollow
Canonicals, languages/directions, visible H1s	Unchanged across all routes	Unchanged across all routes
JSON-LD	Unchanged: 96 MedicalOrganization, 63 BlogPosting, 21 FAQPage	Same objects/counts

All-route comparison against the starting staging artifact confirmed unchanged header/footer/language-switcher destinations and unrelated main text; scripts and styles are excluded from visible-text comparison (contact-obfuscation IDs are randomized). Only / and /es change body copy. Only / changes title, description and their existing social-metadata projections. No canonical, indexing, translation, x-default, sitemap, display-H1, social-metadata or structured-data policy implementation changed. /ar stays unpublished; all four noindex/external-canonical exceptions remain excluded as before.

Read-only Structural Diff Review and Complete File Inventory

13 files: eight modified, five new. Paths below are relative to www/.

Classification	File	Reason
English content	src/content/pages/en/index.md	Approved audience/range, source metadata/labels, HSA/FSA, intake links and logo data
Spanish content	src/content/pages/es/index.md	Two approved audience/range edits, existing-label Spanish intake links and source logo data; no HSA/FSA
Content model	src/types/home-sections.ts	Optional HSA/FSA and logo blocks plus optional process destinations; no Schema.org additions
Homepage composition	src/components/pages/HomePage.astro	Render optional sections in observed order, including legacy sections-array support
Homepage presentation	src/components/home/HomeProcess.astro	Link existing process-card content to validated local intake sections; preserve fallback and client script
Homepage presentation, new	src/components/home/HomeHsaFsa.astro	Source-oriented image/text layout with narrow responsive CSS
Homepage presentation, new	src/components/home/HomeLogos.astro	Optional source image row after testimonials, responsive and unlinked
Source asset, new	public/assets/images/hsa-fsa-accepted.png	Exact self-hosted published PNG; provenance/hash above
Regression tests	tools/seo.test.mjs	Four homepage tests within existing temporary Astro build suite; prior tests preserved
Editing documentation	README.md	New optional homepage fields and valid locale/fragment destinations
Milestone report	reports/migration-summary.md	This dated section; earlier history untouched
Source evidence, new	reports/phase-5b-source-evidence-2026-10-09.json	Cache-aware read-only observations, exact changes and verification
Offline audit, new	reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-09-offline-03-57-29-199Z.json	Updated local fingerprint/metadata; inherited production evidence unchanged

Reviewed scope excludes services/intake source records, Library, team, employee portal, separate Ads landing pages, global navigation/footer, deployment, dependencies/lockfile, Git configuration, form components/backends, analytics, consent and payment integration. No new translation relationships or fabricated Spanish sections were introduced. No staging, commit, push or Phase 5C work.

merge-plan.md remains untracked and unchanged, verified SHA-256: 015db80cdbaf7d68799265d2070db760155c342b432ce6795f17ebc2218c641c.

Tracked-file diff summary (git diff --stat; five new files are listed above and are not included by Git until staged):

 www/README.md                             |   7 +
 www/reports/migration-summary.md          | 324 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 www/src/components/home/HomeProcess.astro |  17 +-
 www/src/components/pages/HomePage.astro   |   8 +
 www/src/content/pages/en/index.md         |  37 +++-
 www/src/content/pages/es/index.md         |  18 +-
 www/src/types/home-sections.ts            |  14 ++
 www/tools/seo.test.mjs                    | 114 +++++++++++
8 files changed, 526 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Phase 5C — Team Content Reconciliation (2026-10-09 UTC)

Phase 5C reconciles the English /team route with the roster and supporting content currently presented by the public Team page. It does not infer hiring, departure, promotion, employment status, or dates from differences between the two sites. No Spanish Team record exists, and none was created.

Sources, Retrieval, and Freshness

The source page was https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/team. robots.txt was retrieved first at 2026-10-09 17:11:37 UTC and allows / while disallowing HubSpot preview and hsCacheBuster patterns. Two bounded, sequential Team-page GETs were made at 17:11:39 and 17:11:40 UTC using Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0 and Pragma: no-cache; the second used a unique audit query. Both returned HTTP 200 and byte-identical bodies (SHA-256 246f1afc7ebee26cf855f79fd82b3b734c717969bcd8e00361108d68af867adf).

Both responses reported x-hs-cf-cache-status: HIT, cache-control: s-maxage=36000, max-age=5, x-hs-cache-control: s-maxage=36000, max-age=0, Last-Modified: Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:13:20 GMT, and the same x-hs-prerendered timestamp. Neither supplied Age, ETag, or CF-Cache-Status. A separate current web rendering agreed on the ordered roster, copy, links, and image assignments. The evidence is therefore classified potentially cached but consistently publicly presented. No contradictory public version was found; cache-bypass headers and the query are not treated as proof of an origin-fresh response.

Ten roster/hero image requests and one social-image request were read-only and sequential. No authentication, form submission, production API call, or write occurred. Raw production HTML, cookies, and removed public entries are not committed. Detailed headers, hashes, source strings, asset mappings, and limitations are preserved in phase-5c-source-evidence-2026-10-09.json.

Repository inspection covered PageLayout.astro, PageHero.astro, BaseLayout.astro, Seo.astro, TeamPage.astro, ContactObfuscation.astro, Button.astro, content.config.ts, team.md, page-visuals.ts, shared site data, the publication manifest/policy, the route manifest, and the existing SEO tests. The Phase 5A/5B reports, project instructions, migration brief, README, and accepted migration history were also reviewed.

Roster Reconciliation

Names, credentials, capitalization, roles, group order, member order, and image assignments below reproduce the public presentation. “Removed” means only that the entry is removed from the migrated public roster because the current published page does not display it.

Group / order	Previous rendered Astro roster	Public roster at 17:11 UTC	Resolution
1. Board Certified Behavioral Analysts & Psychologists	Rula Diab, BCBA, LBA, M.Ed — Clinical Director; Jennifer Espinoza, MAOL/ABA — Clinical BCBA; Timirah Clay, M.Psy/ABA — Clinical BCBA	Rula Diab, BCBA, LBA, M.Ed — Clinical Director; Jennifer Espinoza, MAOL/ABA — Clinical BCBA	Retain first two in published order; remove Timirah Clay entry from migrated public roster
2. Clinical Support	Carol Harrington, A.A. Spec. Ed. — Clinical Manager; Rachel Crosby — Clinical Administrator; Jennifer Bonefont, B.A. Psy — Clinical Client Advocate Supervisor	Jennifer Bonefont, B.A. Psy — Clinical Client Advocate Supervisor	Retain Jennifer Bonefont; remove Carol Harrington and Rachel Crosby entries from migrated public roster
3. Clinical Case Supervisors	Rachael Sanchez, BS, M Psy/ABA — Clinical Supervisor	Same	Retain exactly
4. Clinical Education Specialists	Mahima Bedi — Clinical Instructor	Same	Retain exactly
5. ABA Clinic Management	Mariah Marley — Claims Billing; Eney Garcia, BA — Accounts Billing; Ayah Shahbander — Human Resources; Barbara Samanich, BFA — Creative Marketing Developer	Same names, credentials, roles, and order	Retain exactly; restore its missing parent heading and closing statement

The page now renders nine unique member cards. No credentials were added or normalized from outside sources, and no blog author record was changed.

Photographs and Metadata

The hero and all nine rendered portraits are byte-for-byte matches to the current source images. The hero is 1200×428; each portrait is 342×456. Existing local filenames remain assigned to the same published person:

Person / use	Local asset	Result
Team hero	hero-meet-the-aia-team.webp	Existing exact match retained
Rula Diab	team-rula-diab.webp	Existing exact match retained
Jennifer Espinoza	team-jennifer-espinoza.webp	Existing exact match retained
Jennifer Bonefont	team-jennifer-bonefont.webp	Existing exact match retained
Rachael Sanchez	team-rachael-sanchez.webp	Existing exact match retained
Mahima Bedi	team-mahima-bedi.webp	Existing exact match retained
Mariah Marley	team-mariah-marley.webp	Existing exact match retained
Eney Garcia	team-eney-garcia.webp	Existing exact match retained
Ayah Shahbander	team-ayah-shahbander.webp	Existing exact match retained
Barbara Samanich	team-barbara-samanich.webp	Existing exact match retained

Every card uses the pictured person's name as concise alt text and explicit 342×456 intrinsic dimensions. The three now-unreferenced historical portrait files were not deleted; destructive asset cleanup is outside this milestone.

The title, description, canonical, H1, and og:type=website already matched and remain unchanged. Production supplies AIALanding_BG_V2.jpg as the Team social image with alt learn more about arizona institute for autism. An exact 2200×1146 JPEG copy is now self-hosted at public/assets/images/AIALanding_BG_V2.jpg (SHA-256 3036a9dc996b8ccd4672451fcc83b31b0421db4413f20d891f64f47d7707d6a8) and referenced through existing featuredImage/alt fields. It contains no executable or unexpected embedded content by file-type inspection.

Headings, Supporting Copy, Careers, and Contact

The intro heading, organization/location line, and paragraph already matched production and were moved unchanged into the structured source. The component now restores the published Our ABA Care Team section heading above ABA Clinic Management and its closing statement, ABA's leading experts in special education and clinical care. Repeated production module labels named “Our Creative Team” are hidden by production CSS and were not presented as visible headings or migrated.

Heading structure is now one page H1 from PageHero, H2s for major Team and careers sections, H3s for roster groups, and H4s for member names. The existing card appearance and responsive wrapping are retained; this is a semantic and content correction rather than a Phase 8 visual redesign.

Production labels the careers CTA View Open Positions and links to /careers?hsLang=en. Astro retains the equivalent safe local /careers route; the route exists and the link audit passes. No recruiting form or integration was activated.

Production has an internal HR-email inconsistency: the no-script fallback says hr [at] abaclinicaz [dot] com, while its executable script makes both the visible text and mailto: destination hr@azinstitute4autism.com. Astro retains that active destination and now derives its obfuscated fallback from the same value: hr [at] azinstitute4autism [dot] com. Regression coverage decodes ContactObfuscation data and proves displayed/underlying values agree. The shared public phone, info email, and Scottsdale address match production and were not changed.

Content Architecture Decision

Before this phase, TeamPage.astro hardcoded the rendered roster while team.md contained a separate extracted roster that PageLayout.astro bypassed. The two sources could drift without any validation. The smallest durable fix is a validated team: object in the existing English Team record:

• team-page.ts defines required intro, groups, members, careers/contact, local CTA, and nonempty strings, and rejects duplicate member names.
• content.config.ts exposes that optional page field through the existing Zod content collection.
• PageLayout.astro requires the object for the dedicated English Team route and passes it to TeamPage.astro.
• TeamPage.astro is presentation-only and maps the structured data into the existing cards and sections.
• the bypassed Markdown body contains only a maintenance comment; it no longer presents a competing roster.

This keeps the route and metadata in the established Front Matter CMS-compatible record without a general component refactor. Future editors maintain one roster. No Spanish record or translation relationship was manufactured.

Human-decision Register and Deliberate Deferrals

Topic	Evidence / resolution	Remaining action
Source freshness	Direct recheck and independent current rendering agree; both direct bodies are an October 3 HubSpot cache HIT	Confirm roster operationally before launch if the cache date is material; no conflicting entry was guessed
Credentials and group membership	Reproduced verbatim from the current public page	AIA remains responsible for factual credential/role review; no outside directory was used
HR contact	Active production script consistently uses hr@azinstitute4autism.com; stale fallback uses another domain	Current active value is implemented. AIA may confirm the legacy fallback domain can be retired before launch
Unused portraits	Three prior entries are absent from current public presentation	Files remain unreferenced; later asset cleanup may remove them after a repository-wide usage review
Visual fidelity	Static HTML, CSS, dimensions, semantic structure, links, and assets validated	Full desktop/mobile comparison, crops, spacing, keyboard interaction, and hover fidelity remain Phase 8 work

There are no unresolved image assignments in the implemented nine-member roster. No roster difference is characterized as a personnel event.

Validation and Generated-output Invariants

Run from www/:

npm run test:seo
npm run test:publication
npm run test:markdown
npm run build
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build
npm run audit:routes -- --offline --evidence reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-09-offline-03-57-29-199Z.json
npm run audit:routes -- --check
npm run audit:links
npm run audit:images
npm run audit:blog
npm run build
npm run audit:routes -- --offline --evidence reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-09-offline-03-57-29-199Z.json
npm run audit:routes -- --check
git diff --check

The final offline reconciliation is route-reconciliation-2026-10-09-offline-17-20-21-008Z.json. It reuses all 70 saved production observations and makes no production requests. Historical discovery remains 129 normalized routes and 102 source sitemap URLs. The local generated count stays 96; the production-policy overlap stays 92. An intermediate indexing-mode reconciliation was moved to /tmp.

Check	Result
test:seo	34 passed, including four Phase 5C Team tests
test:publication	33 passed
test:markdown	20 passed
Initial normal, indexing-enabled, final normal builds	All passed; each generated 96 routes; Astro check 0 errors / 0 warnings / 0 hints
audit:routes -- --check	Passed in indexing and final staging modes using offline evidence
audit:links	0 broken internal links
audit:images	0 missing mapped page images
audit:blog	0 failures
git diff --check	Passed
Browser validation	Attempted, but Playwright returned Transport closed; no browser-level desktop/mobile claim is made

The four focused Team tests validate the structured source and reject duplicate names, blank text, and external careers destinations; validate every group, member, role, order, local image, WebP signature, intrinsic dimensions, and alt; validate one H1, heading hierarchy, restored copy, careers CTA, and decoded contact agreement; and preserve title, description, canonical, robots, social image, language/direction, hreflang behavior, and absence of /es/team in both build modes.

Generated-output invariant	Indexing-enabled	Final staging
HTML routes	96, route set unchanged	96, route set unchanged
Sitemap URLs	92	0, empty XML urlset
Hreflang	174 links across 53 pages	0 links
Robots	Existing publication policy; Team index,follow	Every route noindex,nofollow
Team canonical	https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/team	Same
Team language/direction	en / ltr	Same
Team H1	Exactly one	Exactly one

No route, canonical, robots, sitemap, translation, hreflang, display-H1, BlogPosting, FAQPage, organization-schema, analytics, form, advertising, or deployment policy implementation changed. The only new metadata projection is the source-supported Team social image through Phase 4A's existing machinery.

Read-only Structural Diff Review and File Inventory

Phase 5C has 11 files: seven modified and four new, all under www/:

Classification	File	Purpose
Editing documentation	README.md	Documents the single structured Team source
Presentation	src/components/pages/TeamPage.astro	Renders validated roster/copy, semantic hierarchy, matching contact, and existing card styles
Content schema	src/content.config.ts	Registers optional Team page data in the existing page schema
Content metadata/data	src/content/pages/en/team.md	Current nine-member roster, supporting copy, careers data, and social image; removes competing body roster
Route presentation	src/layouts/PageLayout.astro	Requires and passes Team data only for the established English Team route
Regression tests	tools/seo.test.mjs	Four focused generated-output/schema tests in the existing suite
Milestone documentation	reports/migration-summary.md	This dated review; prior evidence retained
Content schema, new	src/types/team-page.ts	Zod model and duplicate-member validation
Source asset, new	public/assets/images/AIALanding_BG_V2.jpg	Exact published Team social image
Source evidence, new	reports/phase-5c-source-evidence-2026-10-09.json	Cache-aware observations, roster, assets, corrections, and validation
Offline audit, new	reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-09-offline-17-20-21-008Z.json	Updated local fingerprint with inherited production evidence

Scope review found no homepage, service, consultation, Library, author, employee-portal, Ads, navigation/footer, dependency/lockfile, deployment, analytics, tracking, form/backend, or future-phase changes. No file is staged.

merge-plan.md remains untracked and unchanged. Its verified SHA-256 is 015db80cdbaf7d68799265d2070db760155c342b432ce6795f17ebc2218c641c.

Phase 6A — Library Architecture Decision (2026-10-09 UTC)

Starting checkpoint: 34d5394b3ce765028a27b9cddd9952de3f09bfe7. This is a research and decision milestone. It changes no Library implementation, content, dependency, route, redirect, publication rule, or deployment file.

Scope and Method

Inspected the catchall route, all three Library index components, BlogIndexLayout, BlogCard, BlogPostLayout, content/author schemas, all blog and author records, publication policy/manifest, structured-data author resolution, SEO/publication tests, route-audit tooling, Library page records, README, migration instructions, accepted reports, and the latest offline route reconciliation.

Production robots.txt was checked before 29 bounded sequential GETs from 2026-10-09 18:01:51–18:02:17 UTC. Requests covered Library/author roots, first-page aliases, representative/last/invalid pages in all three languages, trailing-slash examples, /search, and one search query. No redirects were followed, forms submitted, authentication used, or production writes made. One headless Chromium GET verified client-rendered search results.

Responses variously reported HubSpot HIT, MISS, or REVALIDATED and mostly October 3–4 prerenders. They establish consistent current public behavior, not origin freshness. Historical October 7 observations remain intact and support the intervening English page 3–5/author page 3–5 statuses without repeat calls.

Current Inventory and Confirmed Behavior

• 65 blog records: 46 English, 12 Spanish, seven Arabic.
• All 65 are non-draft and generated. Two English syndicated records are accessible noindex external-canonical exceptions, leaving 63 sitemap- eligible posts.
• Every post has title, description, date, author, category, featured image, canonical, and translation key. Tags are empty on all 65; no post declares updatedDate or image-alt frontmatter.
• Every post uses author slug rula-diab. There is one author record per language, all sharing explicit translation key rula-diab.
• Current indexes sort date descending only; stable manifest order implicitly breaks equal dates by route. They render every locale post in one list.
• English alone has an inert search input. Spanish/Arabic have no search control. No local pagination or author routes exist.
• The three Library Markdown bodies contain bypassed historical listing snapshots, creating a stale competing representation even though they do not render.
• Production uses ten posts per page: English 55 posts/six pages, Spanish 12/two, Arabic seven/one. Author archives have the same counts because all posts are currently attributed to Rula Diab.
• All six /page/1 Library/author aliases return duplicate 200 content. English trailing-slash examples return 301 to no-slash roots. First invalid page boundaries return 404.
• Production search is a JavaScript-rendered GET /search flow. A browser query for autism returned 66 mixed-language blog/listing results, ten per offset page. Raw HTML contains no results and production supplies no useful search canonical/robots/title.

Architecture Recommendation

Generate one small metadata-only JSON search index per language from a new shared Library catalog based on the existing publication manifest. Use a dependency-free TypeScript client with Unicode-aware English/Spanish/Arabic normalization, weighted deterministic matching, accessible result state, and no external query service. Current measured aggregate metadata is 42,090 bytes raw, 12,693 gzip, or 10,709 Brotli; a raw-body prototype is 474,623/135,796 gzip and is not recommended without a verified need.

Use the same catalog for ten-item static Library and author pagination, explicit date-descending/route-ascending sorting, author validation, and generated route descriptors integrated with the shared publication policy. Page 1 remains each root; /page/1 becomes a locale-specific permanent redirect. Invalid or empty pages are not generated. Numbered pages never gain hreflang from matching page numbers. Author roots may use explicit author translation keys after localized author content is source-reconciled and reviewed.

The complete proposal, alternatives, current evidence, URL disposition matrix, route-count model, multilingual/RTL/SEO design, accessibility behavior, Phase 6B checkpoints, test matrix, and decision register are in phase-6a-library-architecture.md.

Route Implications and Sequencing

With the current corpus, the proposed /search, five numbered Library pages, three author roots, and five numbered author pages would add 14 HTML routes: 96 → 110. Under the recommended policy, sitemap URLs would be 92 → 105. Validated author-root equivalence would add 12 hreflang links: 174 → 186. Redirect aliases add no HTML routes.

The current corpus can generate only five nonempty English pages. Production page 6 and author page 6 contain real distinct content. Phase 6C's nine missing English posts must therefore precede final pagination acceptance; no empty page, generic-home redirect, or fabricated record is recommended. If all nine are ordinary indexable records, the combined upper-bound projection is 121 HTML routes and 116 sitemap URLs; exact policy and translation relationships must be recomputed from the reconciled records.

Validation

Check	Result
Normal npm run build	Passed; Astro check 0 errors/warnings/hints; 96 HTML routes
npm run audit:routes -- --check	Passed offline against route-reconciliation-2026-10-09-offline-17-20-21-008Z.json; no network/writes
Indexing-enabled evidence build	Passed; 96 routes, 92 sitemap URLs, 174 hreflang links across 53 pages
Final normal build	Passed; restored staging output
Final staging safeguards	96 routes; global noindex,nofollow; empty sitemap; no hreflang

Decisions Awaiting Approval

1. Metadata-only dependency-free search rather than full-body/Pagefind/client library search.
2. Ten posts per page and permanent page-1 alias redirects.
3. Preserved noindex /search compatibility for term, q, legacy type, and offset, while embedded Library search remains locale-scoped.
4. Indexable, self-canonical, sitemap-listed numbered/archive pages.
5. Continued listing/search visibility for the two accessible noindex syndicated pages, preserving current Astro behavior.
6. Explicit author-root hreflang, optional localized author displayName, and source-supported author bio reconciliation with human language review.
7. Phase 6C content sequencing before English page-6 acceptance.

No functional source file, dependency, route, redirect rule, content record, Nix/nginx/deployment configuration, publication policy, or generated application behavior was changed in Phase 6A.

Phase 6A Architecture Ratification — October 9, 2026

The Phase 6A proposal was ratified against checkpoint 76a035424dc5245443476b168d8c91ea62eed27b with the following decisions. The original proposal remains preserved as historical architecture research; these later decisions govern Phase 6B implementation.

1. Search architecture approved. Library search uses the existing content collections and publication manifest, locale-specific static JSON indexes, and dependency-free project-owned TypeScript. Initial fields are title, description, headings, category, author display information, publication date, and future nonempty tags. Full-body indexing, fuzzy matching, stemming, hosted services, query logging, and third-party dependencies remain deferred or disallowed.
2. Library pagination approved for a later checkpoint. The agreed model is ten posts per page, publication date descending, normalized route ascending as a stable tie-breaker, the unnumbered root as page 1, nonempty generated pages 2+, and HTTP 301 redirects from /page/1 aliases. Phase 6B.1 does not implement this decision.
3. Legacy /search approved with a narrower initial scope. It preserves term, q, repeated type, and offset compatibility but searches only Library articles. It is noindex, sitemap-excluded, and outside the hreflang graph. This intentional Library-only behavior differs from HubSpot's broader production site search.
4. Archive indexing policy modified. Future numbered Library pages are self-canonical, indexable, and sitemap-eligible. Future author roots and numbered author pages are initially noindex,follow and omitted from the sitemap. This replaces the proposal's recommendation to index all archive pages immediately. Phase 6B.1 creates no author routes.
5. Syndicated-article handling approved. The two accessible English records community-highlight-meet-rula-diab and new-aia-scottsdale-office remain available in Library listings and internal search while retaining their external canonicals, noindex, sitemap exclusion, and hreflang exclusion.
6. Author-root hreflang conditionally approved for later work. It requires explicit validated author translation keys plus eligible, indexable author roots. Numbered author pages never receive hreflang merely from matching page numbers. Because author archives initially remain noindex, Phase 6B.1 adds no author hreflang.
7. Author content model approved for later work. An optional localized displayName may reproduce source-supported archive headings, while the person's actual name remains the BlogPosting Person attribution. Biography reconciliation and substantive Spanish/Arabic edits require source evidence and human language review. Phase 6B.1 uses the existing author schema.
8. Phase 6C sequencing approved with a cutover constraint. Pagination may precede reconciliation of the nine missing English articles, but no records or empty pages may be fabricated. Production /library/page/6 and /library/author/rula-diab/page/6 cannot be accepted as migrated until Phase 6C supplies the necessary source-supported content.

The ratification therefore modifies four material recommendations in the original proposal: /search initially searches Library content rather than the whole site; author archives begin as noindex and outside the sitemap; author-root hreflang waits for later content and indexing approval; and Library pagination may be implemented before Phase 6C even though production page-6 acceptance may not. Only the search-related parts of Decisions 1, 3, and 5 were authorized for Phase 6B.1. Pagination, author archives, redirects, and Phase 6C content retain separate review gates.

Phase 6B.1 — Shared Library Catalog and Search — October 9, 2026

Starting checkpoint: 76a035424dc5245443476b168d8c91ea62eed27b

Scope and Architecture

Phase 6B.1 implements one shared Library catalog, three generated static search indexes, progressively enhanced locale-scoped search on the three Library roots, and a static /search compatibility page. It adds no pagination or author archive routes, changes no article body or date, installs no dependency, and sends no query to an external service.

src/utils/library-catalog.ts is the single reusable catalog layer. It consumes generated blog entries from the Phase 3A publication manifest, resolves authors from the existing localized author records, and returns immutable metadata records separated by locale. It includes route-eligible accessible records even when they are noindex or externally canonicalized, while excluding drafts and other non-generated records. Results sort by publication date descending and normalized local route ascending; duplicate routes, missing authors, and ambiguous authors fail explicitly. That ordering and data shape can be reused by the later approved pagination work without maintaining a second article list.

The catalog extracts bounded Markdown/MDX headings while ignoring fenced code, component syntax, and non-heading body content. A record contains only:

• stable local URL and locale;
• title and description;
• at most 50 meaningful headings, each capped at 300 characters;
• category and future nonempty tags;
• localized author name and slug; and
• publication date.

It does not serialize article bodies, rendered HTML, canonicals, form data, visitor data, analytics identifiers, credentials, cookies, draft metadata, or runtime secrets. src/utils/library.ts adapts the pure catalog to Astro content collections and memoizes it for a build. The JSON endpoint at src/pages/assets/search/library/[locale].json.ts creates deterministic UTF-8 assets for en, es, and ar on every build.

Search Normalization and Ranking

src/utils/library-search.ts owns DOM-independent matching and compatibility query parsing. It applies Unicode NFKC normalization, locale-aware lowercasing, collapsed whitespace, punctuation normalization, Spanish accent-insensitive matching, and removal of Arabic combining marks and tatweel while preserving original display text. It does not stem or fuzzily rewrite words. Documented partial-token matching begins at three characters to accommodate useful prefix and attached-particle matches without turning short tokens into broad matches.

All normalized query terms must match. Deterministic weights favor an exact title phrase, then title tokens, headings, description, category/tags, and author metadata. Equal scores sort by publication date descending and route ascending. Empty or whitespace-only input restores ordinary browsing. Unusual punctuation and Unicode input, no matches, one match, multiple matches, and cleared queries are covered by the focused test suite.

Embedded Library Search

LibrarySearch.astro supplies the shared accessible interface for /library, /es/library, and /ar/library. Each root loads only its own locale index on the first real search. The existing server-rendered list remains complete (46 English, 12 Spanish, seven Arabic) because ten-item pagination is deferred. Search state uses a #search= fragment, supports direct links and browser back/forward navigation, and avoids sending embedded queries to a static server. Clearing a query restores the server-rendered list and its pre-search fragment.

Controls become visible only after successful client initialization. The ordinary listing and links remain available without JavaScript; a <noscript> message describes the limitation. A failed index request reports the error but does not hide or blank the archive. The component uses a visible label, native search input, submit and reset controls, visible focus styles, result heading, and a polite live region. It moves focus predictably after submission/reset, does not trap focus, and creates all query/result text with DOM textContent rather than unsanitized HTML.

English, Spanish, and Arabic use locale-scoped indexes and existing route conventions. Arabic retains lang="ar", dir="rtl", RTL input/result presentation, and logical DOM focus order. The source-supported control labels Search, Buscar, and بحث are retained. Newly introduced Spanish and Arabic operational microcopy (loading, errors, counts, reset, and no-results text) is functionally complete but requires human language review; it is not represented as professionally reviewed translation.

Legacy /search Compatibility

The generated /search page states that it searches AIA Library articles, rather than promising HubSpot's global-page search. term has precedence over q when both are present; repeated legacy type values are accepted as compatibility inputs but do not broaden the corpus. Visitors may search all three indexes or explicitly filter by English, Spanish, or Arabic. A narrow filter fetches only the selected index. Results use ten-item offset pages; nonnegative multiples of ten are accepted, and invalid, negative, non-numeric, non-multiple, or beyond-range offsets normalize to a valid state without exposing nonexistent records.

The page is static, self-canonical to https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/search, noindex,follow in an indexing-enabled build, excluded from the sitemap, and excluded from hreflang. The final staging build applies the global noindex,nofollow safeguard. Its no-JavaScript fallback explains the requirement and links to all three working Library roots. Query-string values can appear in ordinary server logs, unlike fragment-based embedded queries; the page documents that privacy distinction. No cookies, local search history, analytics, query logging, external API, HubSpot forwarding, or persistent backend was added.

The route is integrated through the existing publication-policy API using the small synthetic descriptor in search-publication.ts; it does not introduce a second robots/canonical/sitemap policy. The publication manifest and sitemap continue to represent content-backed routes only. The existing two syndicated articles remain accessible in listings and search while their external canonicals, noindex, sitemap exclusion, and hreflang exclusion remain intact.

Generated Asset Measurements

Measurements were taken from the final generated JSON assets using local gzip and Brotli compression:

Locale	Records	Raw bytes	Gzip bytes	Brotli bytes
English	46	28,003	7,973	6,632
Spanish	12	10,170	3,427	2,969
Arabic	7	6,234	1,982	1,625
Total	65	44,407	13,382	11,226

The total is 2,317 raw bytes and 689 gzip bytes above Phase 6A's prototype, primarily because the implemented records carry validated author objects, bounded extracted headings, and their final endpoint representation. It remains a metadata-only index. The final shared client module is 6,539 bytes raw, 2,651 bytes with gzip, and 2,312 bytes with Brotli. Measurements use gzip -9 -n and brotli -q 11. Ordinary Library visits fetch no index until a search starts, embedded searches fetch one locale, and filtered legacy searches avoid unused locale assets. All query processing occurs in the browser.

Validation and Browser Evidence

Check	Result
npm run test:library	Passed: 16 tests covering real catalogs/build output, publication exclusions, syndicated inclusion, authors, sorting, headings, Unicode matching, legacy state, SEO, and safe client rendering
npm run test:seo	Passed: 34 tests
npm run test:publication	Passed: 33 tests
npm run test:markdown	Passed: 20 tests
Normal npm run build	Passed: Astro check reported 0 errors, warnings, or hints; 97 HTML routes
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build	Passed: 97 HTML routes, 92 sitemap URLs, 174 hreflang links across 53 pages
npm run audit:routes -- --check	Passed after the normal offline reconciliation process recorded the intentional /search route; no new production crawl
npm run audit:links	Passed: 0 broken internal links
npm run audit:images	Passed: 0 missing images
npm run audit:blog	Passed: 0 failures
Final normal npm run build	Passed and restored staging output: all 97 pages noindex,nofollow, empty sitemap, no hreflang
git diff --check	Passed

The preserved-production offline reconciliation is route-reconciliation-2026-10-09-offline-20-22-09-196Z.json: 129 reconciled routes, 97 locally generated routes, and 70 inherited production verification requests. It preserves the earlier observations rather than asserting a new production crawl.

Chromium DevTools Protocol checks exercised the generated static site at desktop and a 390-by-844 mobile Arabic viewport. They confirmed that an ordinary Library visit loads no JSON; direct fragments and Enter submission work; reset and back/forward restore state; failed JSON loading leaves 46 English cards usable; JavaScript-disabled English retains all 46 cards and working links; the legacy page honors term precedence and ten-result offsets; a Spanish filter fetches only the Spanish index; and Arabic results/input remain RTL without horizontal overflow. These checks also observed correct focus movement and live status updates. No screenshots or browser artifacts were added to the repository.

The user also completed the full manual browser acceptance checklist against the built static site served through the project's nginx/reverse-proxy environment at https://aia.web3app.dev; every checklist item passed. Results display the clear heading “Library Search Results,” keyboard submission moves focus to that results region, the next Tab reaches the first result, and the browser focus indicator remains visible. That intentional results-region focus behavior was accepted without an additional accessibility correction. This acceptance did not claim testing with a specific screen reader, and a separate Astro preview run was unnecessary because the built output had already been tested through the existing static-serving environment.

Publication, Route, and Scope Invariants

• Generated HTML routes changed only from 96 to 97 for /search.
• The indexing-enabled sitemap remains 92 URLs.
• Indexing-enabled hreflang remains 174 links across 53 routes.
• /search is self-canonical, noindex,follow, sitemap-excluded, and has no hreflang in the indexing-enabled build.
• Final staging output contains 97 globally noindex,nofollow pages, an empty sitemap, and no hreflang.
• The three generated JSON assets are static assets, not HTML routes.
• No new article, numbered Library, author, or translation route exists.
• Canonicals, existing Library-root translation relationships, publication eligibility, syndicated exceptions, BlogPosting/FAQPage rules, author attribution, Header, Footer, LanguageSwitcher, forms, and integrations are unchanged.

Phase 6B.1 deliberately did not implement Library pagination, /page/1 redirects, author archives, author schema/biography changes, article/date reconciliation, production redirects, Phase 6C records, hosting configuration, analytics, or an external search service.

Changed-File Inventory

Modified files:

• package.json — adds the focused test:library command.
• src/components/pages/LibraryEnglish.astro
• src/components/pages/LibrarySpanish.astro
• src/components/pages/LibraryArabic.astro — consume the shared catalog and mount the reusable search enhancement while retaining complete SSR listings.
• src/layouts/BlogIndexLayout.astro — narrowly scoped search/result styling.
• src/utils/publication-policy.ts — broadens the existing descriptor's data type for fields already consumed by the catalog; policy behavior is unchanged.
• src/utils/publication.ts — resolves the /search utility descriptor through the existing publication API.
• tools/publication.test.mjs and tools/seo.test.mjs — include the deliberate /search route in route and SEO invariants.
• reports/migration-summary.md — records ratification, implementation, and validation evidence.

New files:

• src/utils/library-catalog.ts
• src/utils/library-search.ts
• src/utils/library.ts
• src/utils/search-publication.ts
• src/components/LibrarySearch.astro
• src/pages/assets/search/library/[locale].json.ts
• src/pages/search.astro
• tools/library.test.mjs
• reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-09-offline-20-22-09-196Z.json

Remaining Review Items

1. Human language review is required for the newly introduced Spanish and Arabic search-state/accessibility microcopy. This does not change or invent article translations.
2. The intentional Library-only scope of /search should remain visible to stakeholders because it differs from production HubSpot global search.
3. Pagination, page-1 redirect rules, noindex author archives, eventual author indexability/hreflang, author biographies, and Phase 6C page-6 content remain separate approved or conditional checkpoints and are not implemented here.

Phase 6B.2 — Library Pagination and Page-1 Redirects (2026-10-10)

Scope and Starting State

Phase 6B.2 started from checkpoint b20c253383440598c2d07bf6f852906ac00c42df on faithful-astro-migration. It implements deterministic, static pagination for the three existing Library roots and repository-level redirect definitions for their first-page aliases. It does not add Library articles, author routes, author metadata, production hosting configuration, or deployment changes.

The Phase 6B.1 catalog was recalculated from the repository rather than from historical counts. It contains 46 eligible English records, 12 Spanish records, and seven Arabic records. The two accessible English syndicated records remain in that listing catalog despite retaining their external canonicals and noindex publication treatment.

Shared Pagination and Route Integration

src/utils/library-pagination.ts is a pure, reusable layer over the existing catalog. Its page size is ten. It reports total items, nonempty page count, current slice, and previous/next page numbers; rejects unsafe, non-integer, zero, negative, and beyond-last page numbers; and maps page 1 back to the unnumbered locale root. An empty root is a valid archive state, while no empty numbered page is generated. Tests show that adding, removing, drafting, or republishing catalog records changes the generated page inventory without a manual route list.

The content publication manifest remains independent of the Library catalog. getLibraryPaginationManifest() first receives the completed content manifest, then derives the catalog and generated page descriptors from it. getRoutePublicationManifest() composes and sorts those two inventories for static route generation and sitemap output. This ordering avoids a recursive manifest/catalog dependency. Generated pages reuse their locale's Library root entry for presentation, while their publication descriptor supplies the numbered route, self-canonical URL, eligibility, sitemap status, and page metadata. The reserved /{locale?}/library/page families are checked against content routes before generation, so content cannot silently shadow an archive or alias.

The generated current-corpus inventory is:

Language	Eligible articles	Routes and card counts
English	46	/library (10), /library/page/2 (10), /library/page/3 (10), /library/page/4 (10), /library/page/5 (6)
Spanish	12	/es/library (10), /es/library/page/2 (2)
Arabic	7	/ar/library (7); no numbered page

The implementation intentionally generates no /page/1 HTML, English page 6, Spanish page 3, Arabic page 2, page 0, leading-zero alias, decimal page, or beyond-last page. Those absent paths fall through to the static host's 404 behavior.

Rendering, Navigation, and Search

The three locale components now render the page slice returned by the shared helper. Existing heroes, introductory content, cards, article URLs, featured images, popular-post lists, and search controls remain in place. Page-specific document titles append Page N or the existing locale's equivalent; the visible root H1 is unchanged and remains unique. BlogIndexLayout.astro accepts the heading separately from the document title so a numbered title does not alter the source heading.

LibraryPagination.astro renders server-side anchors for previous, next, and each valid page. Page 1 always links to the unnumbered root. The current link uses aria-current="page"; the navigation has a locale-specific accessible label, visible focus styles, 44-pixel minimum targets, wrapping layout, and no disabled or nonexistent links. Arabic retains document RTL direction and logical DOM focus order. The newly introduced Spanish and Arabic pagination labels are functional but remain ready for human language review rather than being represented as professionally reviewed translations.

The ordinary cards and pager share one archive wrapper. Phase 6B.1 search still loads the full locale JSON index, including when initiated on a numbered page. While search is active it hides both that page's cards and pager. Reset restores the same numbered page without navigating to page 1. Direct fragments and browser Back/Forward preserve the expected state. If index loading fails, the page slice and pager remain usable. With JavaScript disabled, cards and real pagination links remain fully navigable and the search enhancement stays honestly unavailable. Legacy /search query and offset behavior is unchanged.

The historical Markdown listing snapshots remain bypassed and were not edited; the catalog remains the only rendered listing source.

First-Page Alias Redirect Definitions

The existing generator and redirect registry retain the three service aliases and add exactly these definitions:

Source	Destination	Status
/library/page/1	/library	301
/es/library/page/1	/es/library	301
/ar/library/page/1	/ar/library	301

src/data/redirects.json, reports/redirect-map.csv, and reports/nginx-rewrites.conf are generated from the same source definitions. Tests reject duplicate sources, redirect loops, altered service aliases, generated alias HTML, or alias sitemap entries.

An isolated nginx:latest container served the generated static output with the generated snippet mounted read-only. Each alias returned HTTP 301 with its exact path-only Location, following each redirect ended at HTTP 200 without a loop, /library/page/2 returned 200, and /library/page/6 returned 404. The container was stopped after the check. These results validate the repository definitions and compatible nginx behavior only. Neither the NixOS reverse proxy nor the deployed staging/production configuration was changed; activation and host-level verification remain explicitly gated.

Publication and SEO Results

The three Library roots preserve their existing self-canonicals and reciprocal root hreflang relationships. Each generated numbered page is self-canonical, index,follow in the local indexing-enabled build, present in that sitemap, and deliberately has no hreflang. The five routes increase the generated HTML count from 97 to 102 and the production-policy sitemap count from 92 to 97. Hreflang remains 174 links across the same 53 routes.

The existing article routes, article canonicals, syndicated exceptions, BlogPosting and FAQPage output, /search noindex behavior, LanguageSwitcher, Header, Footer, forms, and integrations are unchanged. The final normal build restored all 102 pages to global noindex,nofollow, an empty sitemap, and no hreflang.

The saved-production offline reconciliation is reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-10-offline-02-51-44-711Z.json. It records 102 locally generated routes and reuses the existing 70 production requests without making network requests or changing the historical observations. Its production sitemap figures describe the preserved discovery baseline, not the local indexing-enabled sitemap assertion above.

Browser and Redirect Validation

A local Astro preview of the generated static artifact was exercised through headless Chromium at desktop and 390-by-844 mobile viewports. Thirty-six focused checks covered all three Library roots, English pages 2, 3, and 5, Spanish page 2, visible-link navigation, boundary controls, exact card counts, unique H1s, mobile wrapping and overflow, Arabic RTL, and direct numbered URLs.

On /library/page/3, search found an article outside that ten-card slice, hid cards and pagination, and restored the original page-3 archive on reset. Direct search fragments and browser Back/Forward worked. Representative Spanish search also used its full locale catalog. A blocked index request retained the archive and pager. With JavaScript disabled, page-3 cards, article links, and pagination remained available while search stayed unavailable. No claim is made for a particular screen reader. The deployed aia.web3app.dev host was not changed or used as evidence that the new redirect definitions are active.

Automated Validation

Check	Result
npm run test:library	Passed: 25 tests, including pagination boundaries, real corpus slices, route growth/removal, collisions, rendering, navigation, search, redirects, and SEO
npm run test:seo	Passed: 34 tests
npm run test:publication	Passed: 33 tests
npm run test:markdown	Passed: 20 tests
Normal npm run build	Passed: Astro check reported 0 errors, warnings, or hints; 102 HTML routes
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build	Passed: 102 HTML routes, 97 sitemap URLs, 174 hreflang links across 53 routes
npm run audit:routes -- --check	Passed after the established offline reconciliation procedure; no production requests
npm run audit:links	Passed: 0 broken internal links
npm run audit:images	Passed: 0 missing mapped page images
npm run audit:blog	Passed: 0 blog content audit failures
Final normal npm run build	Passed: 102 pages, all noindex,nofollow, empty sitemap, no hreflang
git diff --check	Passed

Cutover Blockers and Deferred Work

1. Production exposes /library/page/6, but the repository still lacks the nine source-supported English articles assigned to Phase 6C. No empty page, placeholder record, or misleading redirect was created. Phase 6C remains a production-cutover prerequisite for accepting that URL.
2. Production's English author page 6 depends on the same missing corpus and on Phase 6B.3 author archive implementation. No author route or author redirect was added here.
3. Activation and HTTP verification of the three first-page redirects on the intended hosting stack require a separately approved hosting change.
4. The Spanish and Arabic pagination navigation strings require human language review. No article translation or translation relationship changed.

Changed-File Inventory

Modified files:

• reports/migration-summary.md — this implementation, evidence, validation, and cutover record.
• reports/nginx-rewrites.conf, reports/redirect-map.csv, and src/data/redirects.json — generated first-page alias definitions while preserving the three service aliases.
• src/components/pages/LibraryEnglish.astro, src/components/pages/LibrarySpanish.astro, and src/components/pages/LibraryArabic.astro — deterministic locale page slices, pager integration, and separate numbered document titles.
• src/layouts/BlogIndexLayout.astro — separates the H1 from numbered document titles and makes cards plus pager one search visibility boundary.
• src/pages/[...slug].astro — generates and renders composed numbered routes.
• src/pages/sitemap.xml.ts — uses the composed eligible route manifest.
• src/utils/publication.ts — composes content and generated Library page descriptors through the existing publication API.
• tools/generate-redirects.mjs — adds the three approved Library aliases.
• tools/library.test.mjs, tools/publication.test.mjs, and tools/seo.test.mjs — focused pagination, routing, search, redirect, publication, sitemap, and metadata regression coverage.

New files:

• src/utils/library-pagination.ts — pure pagination and generated publication descriptors.
• src/components/LibraryPagination.astro — accessible locale-aware pager.
• reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-10-offline-02-51-44-711Z.json — reproducible offline route evidence using the preserved production baseline.

No package dependency, article body, author record, content date, form, analytics, advertising, production hosting, employee-portal, or unrelated page was changed. Author archives, author biographies, Phase 6C content, page-1 author aliases, and production deployment remain outside this checkpoint.

Session Transition Handoff — October 9, 2026

After verifying the pushed Phase 6B.2 checkpoint 6f5ac3c0d233cee5fbbb62be79bc6909e6bec183 on branch faithful-astro-migration (parent b20c253383440598c2d07bf6f852906ac00c42df, 18 changed files), a short, continually maintained handoff was added at reports/SESSION_HANDOFF.md. The handoff identifies Phase 6B.3 as the next milestone, links to controlling instructions and accepted ratification decisions, and lists known Phase 6C content gaps, localization review, and pending redirect-host activation. It is an orientation index, not a replacement for this dated migration evidence.

This is a documentation-only transition checkpoint. No application code, publication rules, search or pagination behavior, redirect definitions, or hosting/deployment configuration were changed; no build or browser-test result is claimed for this documentation update.

Phase 6B.3 — Author Archives and Linked Bylines (2026-10-10)

Scope and Starting State

Phase 6B.3 was implemented for review from branch faithful-astro-migration at starting HEAD 0957c06a18726a01531f5b46a1d74bc67aa58f60. The last completed implementation checkpoint remains Phase 6B.2 at 6f5ac3c0d233cee5fbbb62be79bc6909e6bec183; the later starting HEAD is the documentation-only session-handoff commit. This milestone adds generated author archives and linked bylines. It does not implement author redirects, make author pages indexable, add the nine Phase 6C articles, change deployment, or alter Library search semantics.

The existing catalog was recalculated at 46 English, 12 Spanish, and seven Arabic eligible articles. All 65 records reference the exact locale-specific rula-diab author record. The two accessible syndicated English records remain in the catalog and author archive listings while retaining their existing article-level external canonicals, noindex, sitemap exclusion, hreflang exclusion, and structured-data exclusion.

Public Source Evidence and Limits

The three published roots were inspected with bounded, read-only requests:

• https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/library/author/rula-diab
• https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/es/library/author/rula-diab
• https://www.azinstitute4autism.com/ar/library/author/rula-diab

Normal and explicit revalidation requests ran from 2026-10-10T03:22:53Z through 2026-10-10T03:23:00Z, at least one second apart. All returned 200, Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, Cloudflare as the server, and x-hs-cache-config: BrowserCache-5s-EdgeCache-0s. HubSpot reported October 3 prerenders and matching Last-Modified values: English at 2026-10-03T23:13:21Z, Spanish at 23:13:18Z, and Arabic at 23:13:19Z. Normal, revalidation, desktop-browser, and mobile-browser observations agreed. That agreement establishes the observed public representation but does not prove uncached origin freshness or independently verify the biographical, credential, role, or employment claims.

The evidence file reports/phase-6b3-source-evidence-2026-10-10.json preserves request metadata, titles, descriptions, headings, biography transcriptions, avatar mapping, pagination links, popular-post observations, and desktop/mobile measurements. No cookies, credentials, authenticated requests, forms, APIs, or production writes were used.

The author records reproduce the observed locale-specific credentialed headings and one-paragraph biographies. The underlying identity remains Rula Diab in every locale. Spanish and Arabic text is a traceable transcription of the public source and remains ready for human language review; it is not represented as a professionally approved translation. The source 755-by-755 JPEG replaces the old 100-by-100 derivative at the existing local asset path /assets/images/rula-diab-avatar.jpg; its SHA-256 is 0ea7b2c2d4e4a5e23b375ffa9ebbcf658e0cf5898f43c3a5506a80db86fa974a.

Author Model and Resolution

src/utils/authors.ts now provides one exact (locale, author slug) resolver for the catalog, cards, full posts, BlogPosting generation, and archives. It validates supported locale, a safe single-segment Unicode slug, nonblank identity and optional display name, description type, and a normalized local avatar path. Duplicate, missing, invalid, or ambiguous references fail with an actionable build error. The resolver returns the underlying name, optional presentation displayName, biography data, avatar, and computed locale archive route. It does not consult Team records or infer employment, credentials, or translation equivalence.

The author content schema and Front Matter CMS configuration add the optional displayName. name continues to hold the person's identity. BlogPosting continues to emit author: { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rula Diab" }; the credentialed display string is used only in visible headings and bylines. No unsupported author URL, credential, employer, sameAs, or Team relationship was added to JSON-LD.

Archive Generation and Rendering

src/utils/author-archives.ts composes author descriptors only after the content manifest and shared eligible Library catalog exist. It groups catalog records by exact locale and declared author slug, resolves each author through the shared resolver, and reuses paginateLibraryItems() with the existing ten-item page size and date-descending/normalized-route-ascending order. It generates only nonempty pages and detects reserved author-family route collisions, including ineligible content records, as well as duplicate canonical targets. This preserves the manifest-first composition order and does not create a recursive catalog/publication dependency.

The current generated route inventory is:

Locale	Eligible author articles	Generated routes and card counts
English	46	/library/author/rula-diab (10), pages 2–4 (10 each), page 5 (6)
Spanish	12	/es/library/author/rula-diab (10), page 2 (2)
Arabic	7	/ar/library/author/rula-diab (7)

These eight routes are derived rather than hardcoded. A newly referenced valid author gains an archive automatically; an author with no eligible posts gains none. No /page/1, English page 6, Spanish page 3, Arabic page 2, malformed page number, beyond-last page, or unknown-author route is generated.

The catchall renderer distinguishes the synthetic author descriptor before rendering ordinary page or article content. AuthorArchive.astro uses the existing Library hero, shared BlogCard, shared pagination component, author record body, catalog, and locale shell. It preserves one H1, uses the author heading as H2, renders the verified portrait and biography, retains the catalog's sidebar treatment, and preserves Arabic lang="ar" dir="rtl". Numbered pages have distinct titles while retaining the same visible archive headings. Pagination uses real links, root page-one URLs, previous/next boundaries, aria-current="page", localized labels, 44-pixel targets, and visible keyboard focus. It remains fully usable without JavaScript.

The production Popular Posts links are an editorial selection and differ from the current repository's five newest eligible posts. The new archive reuses the same deterministic catalog-derived sidebar behavior already used by the three Astro Library indexes rather than introducing a second manually maintained article list. Exact production sidebar selection remains a content-fidelity review item and should be reconciled together with the Phase 6C corpus rather than hardcoded here.

Linked Bylines and Existing Library Behavior

BlogCard.astro and BlogPostLayout.astro no longer hardcode one English credential string and avatar. Both resolve the article's exact locale/slug author, display the source-supported localized presentation name and avatar, and link it with rel="author" to the corresponding local archive. Decorative adjacent avatars retain empty alternatives; archive portraits use the localized display heading. Article titles, Read More links, dates, bodies, canonicals, and publication metadata are unchanged. Tests reject nested links and verify visible focus.

Phase 6B.1 search indexes, legacy /search, and Phase 6B.2 Library slices are unchanged. Search on a numbered Library page still covers the full locale catalog, hides the ordinary cards and pager while active, and restores that same page on reset. No search feature was added to author archives. No search logging, external service, analytics, query transmission, cookies, or backend was introduced.

Publication and SEO Results

Every author descriptor is eligible for static generation but carries noindex: true, no external canonical, no translation edges, and no sitemap eligibility. In the indexing-enabled build all eight pages are self-canonical, emit noindex,follow, have no hreflang, and remain absent from the 97-URL sitemap. Existing Library-root hreflang stays unchanged. Production source pages exposed no canonical or robots meta in the captured HTML; the local self-canonical/noindex behavior is the ratified migration policy rather than a claim that HubSpot currently emits it.

The indexing-enabled build produced 110 HTML routes, 97 sitemap URLs, and 174 hreflang links across 53 routes. The eight new author routes explain the change from the Phase 6B.2 total of 102; sitemap and hreflang totals do not change. Existing article canonicals, syndicated exceptions, BlogPosting and FAQPage rules, Library pagination metadata, /search, and global publication controls remain unchanged.

The route audit first reported the expected source-fingerprint mismatch. The established offline procedure then generated reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-10-offline-03-48-54-074Z.json, reusing all 70 saved production requests with no new production fetches, and its subsequent --check passed. The reconciliation records 110 locally generated routes and preserves historical production observations rather than rewriting them.

Automated and Browser Validation

Check	Result
npm run check	Passed: 90 Astro files, 0 errors, warnings, or hints
npm run test:library	Passed: 31 tests, including resolver validation, eight exact archive routes, 46/12/7 slices, growth/removal, collisions, rendering, bylines, SEO, and search regression
npm run test:seo	Passed: 34 tests, including identity-versus-display-name BlogPosting coverage
npm run test:publication	Passed: 33 tests
npm run test:markdown	Passed: 20 tests
Normal npm run build	Passed: 110 HTML routes
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build	Passed: 110 HTML routes, 97 sitemap URLs, 174 hreflang links across 53 routes
npm run audit:routes -- --check	Passed after offline reconciliation; no live requests
npm run audit:links	Passed: 0 broken internal links
npm run audit:images	Passed: 0 missing mapped page images
npm run audit:blog	Passed: 0 blog content audit failures

Headless Chromium performed 39 focused checks against the built static output through local Astro preview. Coverage included English first/final pages, Spanish first/final pages, Arabic root, exact card counts, titles/canonicals and robots, no hreflang, local assets, locale and direction, desktop and 390-by-844 mobile overflow, profile sizing, pager boundaries, card and full-post byline navigation in all three languages, keyboard Tab focus and visible focus on the author link, no-JavaScript archive and pager navigation, and unchanged full-catalog Library search/reset behavior. Source and local desktop screenshots were inspected from temporary files and are not committed. No particular screen reader or user-performed manual acceptance is claimed.

The final validation step restores the normal staging artifact. Its expected and verified safeguards are 110 HTML pages, all noindex,nofollow, an empty sitemap, and no hreflang.

Redirect Boundary, Deferred Work, and Human Review

No author alias was added to the redirect registry. The intended future Phase 6B.4 definitions remain:

• /library/author/rula-diab/page/1 → /library/author/rula-diab (301)
• /es/library/author/rula-diab/page/1 → /es/library/author/rula-diab (301)
• /ar/library/author/rula-diab/page/1 → /ar/library/author/rula-diab (301)

No duplicate page-one HTML exists. Repository or host activation and HTTP verification of these aliases remain separately gated. No distinct later page is redirected to an earlier page.

Outstanding review items are:

1. Human language review of the source-transcribed Spanish and Arabic display headings, biographies, and existing pagination labels.
2. Independent organizational review of the public biographical, credential, and role claims if AIA requires factual approval beyond faithful source reproduction. Author attribution does not establish Team membership.
3. Phase 6C's nine missing English articles remain required before either production /library/page/6 or /library/author/rula-diab/page/6 can be accepted for cutover. No substitute route or content was fabricated.
4. Exact production Popular Posts selection should be reconsidered after the Phase 6C corpus is complete.
5. Author archive indexability, sitemap eligibility, and author-root hreflang remain later human-decision gates. This milestone intentionally emits none.

Changed-File Inventory

Modified files:

• frontmatter.json — optional author presentation-name field.
• public/assets/images/rula-diab-avatar.jpg — verified full-size source portrait at the existing local path.
• src/components/BlogCard.astro — resolved, linked locale byline and avatar.
• src/components/LibraryPagination.astro — narrow author-root route support through the shared pager.
• src/content.config.ts — validated optional display name and author identity fields.
• src/content/authors/en/rula-diab.md, src/content/authors/es/rula-diab.md, and src/content/authors/ar/rula-diab.md — observed display headings and public biography transcriptions.
• src/layouts/BlogPostLayout.astro — resolved, linked full-post byline.
• src/pages/[...slug].astro — author-descriptor rendering dispatch.
• src/utils/library-catalog.ts — uses the shared exact author resolver.
• src/utils/publication.ts — composes author descriptors after content and Library pagination.
• src/utils/structured-data.ts — shared resolver while retaining underlying Person identity.
• tools/library.test.mjs, tools/publication.test.mjs, and tools/seo.test.mjs — archive, resolver, byline, route, publication, schema, and generated-HTML regression coverage.
• reports/migration-summary.md — this dated implementation and review record.

New files:

• src/utils/authors.ts — shared author validation and resolution.
• src/utils/author-archives.ts — derived author archive publications.
• src/components/pages/AuthorArchive.astro — source-specific archive presentation.
• reports/phase-6b3-source-evidence-2026-10-10.json — dated production and source-asset evidence.
• reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-10-offline-03-48-54-074Z.json — reproducible offline route reconciliation.

No package dependency, article body/date, Team record, Library search index, redirect definition, form, analytics, advertising, consent, employee portal, deployment, or unrelated site content was changed. reports/SESSION_HANDOFF.md was intentionally left at Phase 6B.2 during implementation review; checkpoint acceptance advances it separately without inventing the containing commit SHA.

Manual Acceptance and Newly Observed Deferred Defects (2026-10-10)

The user completed and accepted the Phase 6B.3 manual browser checklist after the automated review. Manual coverage included English, Spanish, and Arabic author archives; first and final pagination pages; biography and portrait presentation; card and full-post byline links; mobile layouts; Arabic RTL archive layout; keyboard focus; and preservation of existing Library behavior. This user acceptance is separate from the 39 automated headless Chromium checks. It does not establish screen-reader testing, professional Spanish or Arabic language review, or organizational verification of credentials, biographical claims, roles, or employment.

The accepted validation baseline remains 110 generated HTML routes, including eight author archive routes; 97 indexing-enabled sitemap URLs; 174 hreflang links across 53 routes; all eight author routes self-canonical, noindex,follow, sitemap-excluded, and hreflang-excluded; and the final staging build globally noindex,nofollow with an empty sitemap and no hreflang. The 31 Library, 34 SEO, 33 publication, and 20 Markdown tests passed, as did the link, image, blog, and saved-evidence offline route audits. No new production crawl was performed for checkpoint acceptance.

Broader user inspection subsequently identified three open multilingual defects. They do not invalidate the accepted core author-archive implementation and were not changed during checkpoint preparation:

1. Arabic footer contact presentation — Phase 6B.5. On Arabic pages, articles, and author archives, RTL direction disrupts the visual presentation of Latin-script telephone, email, and address content. The shared footer may require explicit direction isolation and RTL-aware formatting. This is a user-observed presentation defect; its precise code-level cause still needs targeted verification.
2. Author archive language selector — high-priority pre-cutover navigation defect; targeted remediation and Phase 6B.5 verification. The selector in the Arabic author archive header appeared unresponsive. Code inspection suggests a likely architectural cause: the committed LanguageSwitcher uses publication.translations, while author descriptors deliberately have no SEO translation relationships during their initial noindex period. This is a hypothesis, not a completed runtime diagnosis. A correction must distinguish visitor navigation through explicitly validated locale author records and translation keys from SEO hreflang. Author hreflang, sitemap inclusion, or indexing must not be enabled as a workaround.
3. Language-appropriate navigation destinations — Phase 6B.5. From an Arabic author archive, Library should prefer /ar/library rather than the English /library when that published route exists. The committed MainNav currently falls back to English navigation for Arabic despite navigation.ar.json; Spanish is partly localized, and the footer retains English-path assumptions. A later correction must cover desktop, mobile, and footer navigation; validate actual published destinations; define explicit fallback behavior; avoid guessed translated routes; and preserve the approved SEO translation policy. The navigation behavior is user-observed; the cited code paths are inspection hypotheses pending the scoped remediation.

Phase 6B.4 remains the next milestone for URL and SEO reconciliation, including the deferred author /page/1 aliases. Phase 6B.5 follows for multilingual, RTL, accessibility, and performance acceptance, including the three defects above. The nine missing English articles remain Phase 6C work and continue to block final acceptance of the two production page-6 URL families.

Phase 6B.4 — URL, Canonical, Sitemap, and Redirect Reconciliation (2026-10-10)

Implemented on faithful-astro-migration from accepted checkpoint 8646792d46a8a117ef617f5dd2582c2550b45d19. This milestone reconciles the generated route inventory and SEO output, adds the approved author page-one aliases, and makes repository redirects part of the repeatable offline route matrix. It does not activate hosting rules, add content, change publication eligibility, or address the Phase 6B.5 multilingual defects.

Evidence and URL Dispositions

No production request or crawl was made. The new reconciliation reuses the 70 saved requests and original observation times from route-reconciliation-2026-10-10-offline-03-48-54-074Z.json. The Phase 6A source investigation remains separate supporting evidence: 29 bounded public GETs from 2026-10-09 18:01:51–18:02:17 UTC observed all six Library/author /page/1 candidates as duplicate HTTP 200 pages. The older October 7 route evidence directly observed the three legacy service aliases as matching 301 redirects. These observations describe HubSpot behavior and do not establish origin freshness or deployment of the new rules.

The repeatable schema-2 result is route-reconciliation-2026-10-10-offline.json. It inventories 110 generated HTML routes and nine repository redirects across 133 reconciled route/query records. Each redirect source now carries its destination, status, reason, discovery sources, saved HTTP evidence where available, and an explicit disposition. The three service aliases classify as local-and-production-redirect; the six page-one aliases classify as local-redirect-production-unverified in this inherited October 7 evidence. The report records repository definitions, not deployed-host activation.

URL family	Local disposition	SEO / preservation result
/library, /es/library, /ar/library	Preserved generated roots	Self-canonical, indexable and sitemap-eligible in the indexing build; existing explicit root hreflang retained
English Library pages 2–5; Spanish page 2	Preserved generated pages	Self-canonical, indexable, sitemap-eligible; no numbered-page hreflang
Eight current author roots/pages	Generated but deliberately noindex	Self-canonical noindex,follow; sitemap- and hreflang-excluded
Six Library/author /page/1 aliases	Approved repository 301 definitions	No HTML, canonical, sitemap, or hreflang entity at the source path
/search and supported term, q, repeated type, lang, and offset state	Preserved static Library-only compatibility route	/search self-canonical, noindex,follow, sitemap- and hreflang-excluded; query state remains client-side and escaped
Three legacy service aliases	Preserved repository 301 definitions	Exact existing destinations and statuses retained
Two syndicated English articles	Accessible external-canonical records	Still noindex, sitemap- and hreflang-excluded; remain in Library/author listings
/library/page/6 and /library/author/rula-diab/page/6	Verified production routes, missing locally	Phase 6C cutover blockers; no empty page, copied page 5, or redirect substitute
Page 0, negative/decimal/leading-zero/beyond-last pages, unknown authors	Intentionally absent	No generated output, sitemap entry, metadata, or concealment redirect
Draft and unpublished records, including /ar	Intentionally excluded	Publication policy unchanged

The 102 sitemap routes in the offline report are the preserved historical production discovery baseline. They are not the local policy sitemap, which contains 97 URLs in the indexing-enabled build. Sitemap omission is not used as proof that a production URL is absent. reports/url-inventory.csv remains the historical extracted content-file inventory; its source_file model does not represent synthetic archives, utility routes, or redirect-only aliases, so it is not presented as the current complete disposition matrix.

Redirect Registry and Validation

tools/generate-redirects.mjs remains the single redirect definition source. It now rejects unnormalized paths, duplicate sources, non-301 definitions, empty reasons, locale-changing destinations, self-redirects, chains/cycles, generated-source collisions, and destinations missing from the generated route inventory. It writes deterministic JSON, CSV, and nginx artifacts.

The existing service and Library definitions are unchanged. These three author aliases complete the current nine-rule registry:

Source	Destination	Status
/library/author/rula-diab/page/1	/library/author/rula-diab	301
/es/library/author/rula-diab/page/1	/es/library/author/rula-diab	301
/ar/library/author/rula-diab/page/1	/ar/library/author/rula-diab	301

These aliases are intentionally explicit for the one current referenced author. A future author must first have a real eligible generated archive; its page-one alias can then be deliberately added and validated rather than being created for zero-post or nonexistent author records.

An isolated nginx:latest container served the normal local static build with the generated snippet. All nine definitions returned HTTP 301 with exact locale-preserving Location values; following each ended at HTTP 200 without a loop. A term=autism query on /library/page/1 was preserved at /library?term=autism. Both Library and author page 2 returned 200. Both English page-6 gaps, page 0, leading-zero page aliases, an unknown author, and an invalid author page returned 404. nginx -t passed. This validates the repository artifacts under a compatible isolated server only; neither deployed staging nor production nginx was changed. The nginx rewrite module documents that the generated permanent flag returns HTTP 301.

Trailing-Slash Reconciliation

The public canonical model remains no-slash except /, enforced by normalizeRoute, canonical validation, and trailingSlash: 'never'. Phase 6A observed current English /library/ and /library/author/rula-diab/ requests returning 301 to their no-slash forms on October 9. The other locale and numbered trailing-slash variants were not individually requested. Historical October 7 evidence also records HubSpot redirecting /es to /es/, so the source host is not evidence of one universal no-slash transport policy.

The Astro configuration reference states that prerendered-page trailing slashes are handled by the hosting platform and may not follow the Astro setting. A neutral isolated nginx try_files configuration returned 200 for both slash and no-slash versions of the same local Library and author files. No broad rewrite was added: it could affect assets, the root URL, query strings, or utility endpoints without deployment-specific validation. The proposed cutover behavior is a bounded host rule that preserves /, assets and queries while redirecting non-root page-directory trailing slashes to the established no-slash canonicals. Activation and full English/Spanish/Arabic verification remain part of the hosting gate.

Canonical, Robots, Sitemap, Hreflang, and Schema Results

The indexing-enabled build produced 110 HTML files and 110 unique canonical targets. Every local canonical used the public origin and normalized pathname; the two syndicated pages retained their external canonicals. No redirect source generated HTML or appeared in the sitemap. Numbered pages never canonicalized to a root or another page.

The indexing-enabled sitemap contained exactly 97 unique local URLs. It excluded all eight author archives, /search, redirect sources, drafts, both external-canonical articles, invalid pages, and both Phase 6C page-6 gaps. Ordinary and numbered Library pages were index,follow; author archives and /search were noindex,follow; existing page-level noindex rules remained.

Hreflang remained 174 links across 53 routes. The three Library roots retained their validated relationships; numbered Library pages, author archives, /search, noindex/external-canonical routes, and redirect aliases emitted none. Existing English x-default selection and all article/service translation sets were unchanged. BlogPosting Person attribution, FAQPage eligibility, titles, descriptions, H1 behavior, article dates, and syndicated schema exclusions also remained unchanged.

The final normal build restored 110 pages with noindex,nofollow, an empty sitemap, and zero hreflang links.

Validation and Review

Check	Result
npm run check	Passed: 90 Astro files; 0 errors, warnings, or hints
npm run test:library	Passed: 33 tests, including the exact nine-rule registry, synchronized artifacts, invalid redirect graphs, generated target/source validation, SEO exclusion, pagination, archives, and search
npm run test:seo	Passed sequentially: 34 tests
npm run test:publication	Passed sequentially: 33 tests
npm run test:markdown	Passed: 20 tests
npm run test:routes	Passed: 10 tests, including redirect-aware classification and reconciliation
Normal npm run build	Passed twice; 110 generated HTML routes
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build	Passed; 110 routes, 97 sitemap URLs, 174 hreflang links on 53 routes
Generated-output SEO inspection	Passed: 110 unique canonicals; all redirect, author, search, pagination, syndicated, sitemap, robots, and hreflang assertions
npm run audit:routes -- --check --evidence reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-10-offline.json	Passed with no network or writes
npm run audit:links	Passed: 0 broken internal links
npm run audit:images	Passed: 0 missing mapped page images
npm run audit:blog	Passed: 0 blog content audit failures
Isolated nginx HTTP verification	Passed: nine exact 301s, valid final targets, preserved query, distinct pages, expected 404 boundaries, valid config
Headless Chromium	Passed: eight representative desktop DOM loads and two 390×844 loads across Library, author, search, syndicated, English, Spanish, and Arabic routes
git diff --check	Passed after the final acceptance and handoff documentation updates

An initial attempt to run the SEO and publication fixture suites concurrently caused their temporary Astro content collections to cross-contaminate. That parallel result was discarded. Running the established commands sequentially passed all 34 and 33 tests without source changes. A first ad hoc generated- output inspection requested unavailable Python bs4; the equivalent project- dependency Cheerio inspection then passed. Browser checks establish page-load, DOM metadata, language/direction, and responsive-viewport execution; they are not a manual visual or screen-reader acceptance claim.

Changed Files and Deferred Decisions

Modified files:

• tools/generate-redirects.mjs — approved aliases, structural validation, and deterministic artifact serializers.
• src/data/redirects.json, reports/redirect-map.csv, and reports/nginx-rewrites.conf — synchronized nine-rule outputs.
• tools/audit-routes.mjs — redirect-aware local inventory, dispositions, schema-2 evidence, and audit-tool fingerprinting.
• tools/audit-routes.test.mjs and tools/library.test.mjs — focused route, redirect, generated-output, and failure-mode regressions.
• reports/seo-audit.md — corrected current pagination/archive/search state while preserving the historical omission.
• reports/migration-summary.md — this dated implementation record.

New file:

• reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-10-offline.json — schema-2, redirect-aware reconciliation based on saved evidence and current output.

reports/SESSION_HANDOFF.md was advanced only during the separately authorized Phase 6B.4 acceptance/transition step. No content record, route generator, publication policy, layout, component, dependency, Nix/nginx host configuration, form, analytics, advertising, consent, employee portal, or deployment file changed.

Manual review before checkpoint approval should cover the nine redirect source and destination pairs in the generated reports; representative root/numbered Library and author canonicals; /search noindex behavior; both page-6 404 gaps; and the documented difference between repository rules and deployed-host activation. A later hosting review must decide and test bounded no-slash normalization. Phase 6C still supplies nine English articles. Phase 6B.5 still owns the three accepted multilingual defects and human language review. Author archive indexing, sitemap participation, and hreflang remain unapproved.

Checkpoint Acceptance and Deferred Hosting Behavior (2026-10-10)

The user authorized the Phase 6B.4 checkpoint after reviewing the completed implementation and automated evidence. This acceptance does not claim that the user independently repeated every suggested manual URL check.

The user tested the existing staging URLs /search, /library, /library/page/2, /es/library, and /ar/library/author/rula-diab; all five redirected to trailing-slash URLs. The detailed /search observation was:

1. https://aia.web3app.dev/search returned HTTP 301 to http://aia.web3app.dev/search/.
2. http://aia.web3app.dev/search/ returned HTTP 301 to https://aia.web3app.dev/search/.
3. The final HTTPS response returned HTTP 200.

This behavior is attributed to the temporary Docker/nginx static-serving and reverse-proxy arrangement. The user explicitly deferred changes to that environment. Phase 6B.4 accepts Astro's slashless canonical policy and the nine validated repository redirect definitions. The observed redirect chain does not block this checkpoint, but it is not accepted production behavior and is not described as fixed.

Production configuration on the Contabo VPS must be separately implemented and verified before cutover. It must serve canonical slashless HTML paths without unnecessary redirects; avoid HTTPS-to-HTTP redirects; normalize trailing-slash variants consistently with the accepted canonical policy; preserve query strings and locale-specific destinations; avoid chains and loops; implement the approved repository redirects; return appropriate 404 responses for nonexistent routes; treat / as the root exception; and verify real HTTP behavior rather than configuration syntax alone. Staging and production indexing safeguards must remain in place until their separately approved transitions. No nginx, Docker, NixOS, Contabo, Cloudflare, HubSpot, DNS, Astro canonical, or deployment configuration changed during checkpoint preparation.

Phase 6B.5 — Multilingual, RTL, Accessibility, and Performance Acceptance (2026-10-10)

Scope, Source Review, and Reported Defects

Work began from checkpoint 8192ea71c47a7163b40a7fad144ebbd2523282d1 and was limited to visitor-language navigation, locale-aware shared navigation, Arabic footer bidi presentation, focused regressions, and acceptance evidence. No content, author biography, publication-policy, sitemap, canonical, redirect, dependency, or deployment change was made.

Bounded read-only inspection covered the published English, Spanish, and Arabic Rula Diab author roots and the Arabic Library root. The pages exposed the three author-locale roots and retained the source labels Welcome to, All Post, and Popular Posts in English on the Spanish and Arabic author presentations. These observations are useful presentation evidence, but HubSpot/CDN prerender freshness remains inconclusive. A later header-only verification attempt at 2026-10-11T02:03:14Z–02:03:15Z could not complete certificate verification in the local curl environment and is not presented as independent origin evidence. No full production crawl or production write occurred.

The three accepted defects and demonstrated code causes were:

1. Author language selector. LanguageSwitcher.astro used only publication.translations. Author archives deliberately have no SEO translations while noindex, leaving an empty/nonworking selector. A native details/summary disclosure now receives a separately validated visitor-navigation model. Author roots use exact locale records and explicit author translationKey identity; numbered archives offer the other locale roots as clearly labeled section navigation rather than claiming page-number equivalence. Ordinary content still uses only the validated content translation graph. /search and untranslated articles receive no fabricated choices. This adds no author hreflang, sitemap entry, or indexability.
2. Locale-aware shared navigation. MainNav.astro explicitly selected English data for Arabic (ar: en), while the footer and header used fixed English destinations. A shared visitor-navigation.ts resolver now validates every internal destination against the eligible route manifest, prefers exact locale routes or explicit content translations, and marks deliberate cross-language fallbacks. Desktop, mobile, footer, logo, and Tour destinations share that policy. The unpublished /ar placeholder remains absent: the visible Arabic Home item and logo explicitly fall back to the published English / route. From /ar/library/author/rula-diab, Library now resolves to /ar/library; Spanish and English resolve to their corresponding roots. No locale prefix is guessed.
3. Arabic footer bidi presentation. Mixed Latin phone, email, and postal-address strings inherited the page RTL direction. Narrow bdi/dir="ltr" boundaries and scoped direction, text-align, and unicode-bidi: isolate rules now protect those values while the footer remains RTL. Existing contact values, obfuscation scripts, tel:/mailto: behavior, icons, and reversed-text no-JavaScript fallbacks remain intact.

Visitor Navigation and Language Matrix

Source context	English destination	Spanish destination	Arabic destination	Classification
Rula Diab author root	/library/author/rula-diab	/es/library/author/rula-diab	/ar/library/author/rula-diab	Exact validated author equivalents for visitor navigation; still no SEO hreflang
Numbered Rula Diab archive	English author root	Spanish author root	Arabic author root	Section-root navigation; page numbers are not translation equivalents
Numbered Library page	/library	/es/library	/ar/library	Section-root navigation; no numbered-page hreflang
Current-language Library menu	/library	/es/library	/ar/library	Exact eligible locale destination
Spanish translated service/menu item	Validated English route	Validated /es/... route	Published Arabic equivalent when one exists; otherwise labeled source-language fallback	Exact translation or explicit fallback
Arabic Home/logo	/	not applicable in Arabic context	/ labeled as an English fallback because /ar is unpublished	Explicit fallback; no /ar route fabricated
Untranslated article	No unrelated language choices	No unrelated language choices	No unrelated language choices	Language indicator remains static and honest
/search	/search only	language filtering inside /search	language filtering inside /search	No page-equivalence menu or hreflang invented

Fallback annotations expose the destination language through visible text, hreflang, and accessible labels without incorrectly marking the localized link label itself as another language. External payment-provider links remain intentional external destinations.

Accessibility, Localization, RTL, and Progressive Enhancement

The selector now uses native disclosure behavior, actual anchors, a localized accessible name, current-language state, 44-pixel minimum trigger height, visible focus styles, Escape-to-close enhancement, logical positioning, and RTL-aware menu placement. It remains usable without JavaScript. Mobile navigation also uses native disclosure behavior, localized Menu labels, visible focus, and Escape-to-close enhancement. The skip link is localized for English, Spanish, and Arabic.

Generated-output checks verified published destinations for all internal desktop, mobile, footer, and language links; lang="ar"/dir="rtl" on Arabic pages; no /ar link; three isolated Arabic contact values; no listbox misuse; no empty interactive language trigger; and static navigation without JavaScript. Existing Library cards, pagination, search result focus/status code, fragment history, accent/Arabic normalization, full-locale search, and legacy query behavior remain covered by the Library suite. Date rendering continues to use the record locale and UTC, with machine-readable datetime values, so calendar dates do not shift by host timezone.

No local Chromium/Playwright/Puppeteer executable or package and no screen reader were available. Consequently, this phase does not claim new browser screenshots, touch testing, visual overflow inspection, assistive-technology speech output, or manual screen-reader acceptance. Generated HTML, CSS, component source, semantic DOM assertions, focus styles, no-JavaScript structure, and existing regression fixtures were used instead. The user should still inspect desktop and 390×844 layouts and complete fluent Spanish/Arabic and screen-reader review before cutover.

The source-published author labels Welcome to, All Post, and Popular Posts were retained in English in all locales rather than inventing translations. Spanish/Arabic fallback notices, the Arabic menu label, skip link, language label, and section-root explanation use straightforward operational wording and remain flagged for human language review. Author biographies, credentials, article bodies, Team records, and marketing claims were untouched.

Performance and Privacy Evidence

The static search architecture remains dependency-free and local. Final generated assets measured:

Asset	Records	Raw bytes	Gzip bytes	Brotli bytes
English JSON index	46	28,003	7,973	6,632
Spanish JSON index	12	10,170	3,427	2,969
Arabic JSON index	7	6,234	1,982	1,625
Index total	65	44,407	13,382	11,226
Shared Library search client	—	6,539	2,651	2,312

Representative raw/gzip HTML sizes were: English Library 49,001/9,642; Spanish Library 50,910/9,847; Arabic Library 43,494/9,209; English author root 49,687/9,216; Spanish author root 52,973/9,697; Arabic author root 47,119/9,155; and /search 19,158/5,182 bytes.

Source and regression inspection confirm that embedded search returns before fetch for an empty query and requests only its one locale index on the first real search. /search requests one selected locale or the three indexes only when all is explicitly selected. Navigation changes add no preload, search request, query transmission, analytics, cookie, external provider, or article-body/private-data exposure. No executable browser was available for a network-panel trace, so request behavior is source- and regression-verified rather than presented as browser-observed.

Publication Invariants and Validation

The indexing-enabled build remained at 110 HTML routes, including eight author archives; 97 sitemap URLs; 174 hreflang links across 53 routes; 65 Library records; three locale JSON indexes; and nine repository redirects. Its robots distribution was 97 index,follow and 13 intentional noindex,follow. Author archives remained self-canonical, noindex, sitemap-excluded, and hreflang-excluded. The search route, syndicated exceptions, BlogPosting Person identity, FAQPage rules, Library pagination, external canonicals, and explicit translation graph were unchanged. Neither /ar nor either Phase 6C page-6 route was generated.

The final normal build restored all 110 HTML pages to noindex,nofollow, an empty sitemap, and zero hreflang links.

Check	Result
npm run check	Passed: 91 Astro files; zero diagnostics
npm run test:library	Passed sequentially: 37 tests
npm run test:seo	Passed sequentially: 34 tests
npm run test:publication	Passed sequentially: 33 tests
npm run test:markdown	Passed: 20 tests
npm run test:routes	Passed: 10 tests
Normal npm run build	Passed twice; final artifact is the normal staging build with 110 routes
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build	Passed; 110 routes, 97 sitemap URLs, 174 hreflang links across 53 routes
npm run audit:links	Passed after final build: zero broken internal links
npm run audit:images	Passed after final build: zero missing mapped page images
npm run audit:blog	Passed after final build: zero failures
Offline route reconciliation	Final route-reconciliation-2026-10-11-offline-03-01-25-775Z.json generated after the address refinement from the 70 saved requests with no network access; explicit consistency check passed for 133 dispositions, 110 generated routes, and nine redirects
Generated-output and payload inspection	Passed for language/direction, navigation destinations, disclosure semantics, footer isolation, robots, sitemap, hreflang, index counts, and asset sizes
git diff --check	Passed before documentation; repeated in the final structural review

One attempted concurrent Library/publication run produced the known shared-fixture interference (118 transient routes and missing fixture output). That result was discarded. Both suites passed independently and sequentially without an application-code correction. The inherited shell TMPDIR pointed at an inaccessible prior Nix temporary directory, so fixture commands used TMPDIR=/tmp; this was an environment correction, not a project change.

Files, Boundaries, and Remaining Review

Modified implementation and test files:

• src/components/Footer.astro
• src/components/Header.astro
• src/components/LanguageSwitcher.astro
• src/components/MainNav.astro
• src/components/MobileNav.astro
• src/layouts/BaseLayout.astro
• src/utils/authors.ts
• tools/library.test.mjs
• tools/publication.test.mjs

New implementation/evidence files:

• src/utils/visitor-navigation.ts
• reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-11-offline-03-01-25-775Z.json

Documentation updated in this phase:

• reports/accessibility-audit.md
• reports/migration-summary.md

The living reports/SESSION_HANDOFF.md was deliberately not advanced before acceptance. No author/content record, biography, publication rule, sitemap rule, canonical, redirect, dependency, form, analytics, advertising, consent, employee portal, hosting, or deployment file changed.

Manual acceptance should cover the three author roots and their language disclosure; a numbered English and Spanish author page returning to locale roots; English/Spanish/Arabic Library navigation; the Arabic Home fallback; desktop/mobile/footer destinations and fallback labels; Arabic footer phone, email, address, and activation with JavaScript enabled/disabled; keyboard and Escape behavior for both disclosures; skip-link focus; embedded and legacy search states/history/status; first/final pagination pages; Arabic RTL wrapping and horizontal overflow at desktop and approximately 390×844; and representative localized dates.

Remaining work includes fluent Spanish and Arabic review of operational wording and biographies; organizational review of author credentials/claims where required; manual screen-reader and browser/touch acceptance; the nine Phase 6C English articles and both page-6 cutover gaps; the deferred author-archive indexing, sitemap, and hreflang decision; and separate Contabo/nginx activation and validation of slashless canonical serving, approved redirects, HTTPS behavior, query preservation, and 404 handling. No hosting rule was activated.

Final Footer Address Refinement (2026-10-10)

Following manual acceptance of the Phase 6B.5 browser checklist, the shared site.address value was changed from one string to line1 and line2 fields. The footer now renders 8901 E Raintree Dr Ste 160, and Scottsdale, AZ 85260 on two intentional lines with an explicit <br> inside an LTR <bdi>. English, Spanish, and Arabic generated footers use the same punctuation and line structure; the surrounding Arabic footer remains RTL, and existing phone/email isolation is unchanged. The only runtime site.address consumer was Footer.astro. Organization JSON-LD already used separate PostalAddress properties and remains semantically unchanged. The historical Phase 5C source-evidence address was inspected but appropriately left unchanged.

The user's contact-page observation was made with JavaScript disabled through uBlock Origin. The reversed phone and email strings are the intentional static ContactObfuscation fallbacks. The English and Spanish contact-page MDX records and ContactObfuscation.astro were therefore left unchanged. A generated-page JavaScript execution harness ran all six contact/footer obfuscation scripts on the English contact page and recovered the expected tel:+14806877099, tel:+16027080429, and mailto:info@azinstitute4autism.com links and visible values; this is a local script/DOM-harness regression, not a new screen-reader claim.

Focused generated-output assertions passed for one English, one Spanish, and one Arabic route, including exact two-line text, one explicit break, nested LTR direction, and preserved navigation. Sequential validation passed with 91 Astro files and zero diagnostics; 37 Library, 34 SEO, 33 publication, 20 Markdown, and 10 route tests; normal and indexing-enabled builds; and clean link, image, and blog audits. The indexing build retained 110 HTML routes, eight author archives, 97 sitemap URLs, and 174 hreflang links across 53 routes. The final normal build restored all 110 pages to noindex,nofollow, with an empty sitemap and no hreflang. Because the source fingerprint changed, route-reconciliation-2026-10-11-offline-03-01-25-775Z.json was created from the existing 70 saved requests without network access, and its explicit consistency check passed. No prior evidence file was overwritten.

Manual Acceptance and Checkpoint Disposition (2026-10-10)

The user completed and accepted the full Phase 6B.5 browser checklist, including English, Spanish, and Arabic navigation; author-root language disclosure; desktop and mobile layouts; Arabic RTL presentation; keyboard focus; search behavior; and the final two-line footer address. This manual acceptance is separate from the automated and generated-output evidence above. No real screen-reader session was performed or claimed.

The final source-matching reconciliation artifact is route-reconciliation-2026-10-11-offline-03-01-25-775Z.json (source fingerprint 639a8bcdf9f710fa1444393ce7eab9588a93144ed3045d4a2d758734a9fe530c). The earlier route-reconciliation-2026-10-11-offline.json records the intermediate pre-address source fingerprint and is superseded checkpoint evidence; it remains an excluded local untracked file rather than being deleted or committed.

Outstanding pre-cutover review remains limited to a real screen-reader session; fluent Spanish and Arabic review of operational copy and author biographies; organizational approval of public author credentials, role, and biography claims where required; the deferred author-archive indexing, sitemap, and hreflang decisions; Contabo/nginx slashless serving, HTTPS, redirect, query, and 404 verification; and the nine Phase 6C English articles needed for both page-6 routes. No deployment or cutover was authorized.

Phase 6C — Missing English Library Article Reconciliation (2026-10-11 UTC)

Starting Point, Scope, and Evidence Method

Work began from signed checkpoint a699d467f19fafbfdda5fce1ce6226baa6e5fc3c on faithful-astro-migration and was limited to the nine accepted missing English Library routes. The implementation adds source-supported article records, self-hosted article media, source-derived article-footer relationships, the narrow heading-extraction support needed by metadata search, focused tests, and current audit evidence. No existing article body, Spanish or Arabic record, author biography, publication rule, redirect, dependency, form, analytics, advertising, hosting, or deployment configuration changed.

Evidence is preserved in reports/phase-6c-source-evidence-2026-10-11.json. Each article received one bounded public GET between 2026-10-11T03:24:40Z and 2026-10-11T03:24:50Z; all returned HTTP 200 at the requested URL with the same local canonical. Responses declared cache-control: s-maxage=36000, max-age=5, x-hs-cf-cache-status: HIT or REVALIDATED, and HubSpot Last-Modified/x-hs-prerendered values from October 3. These are cached HubSpot prerenders and do not prove current origin freshness. The local curl environment could not validate its certificate chain, so the bounded retrieval used curl's certificate-verification bypass and the limitation is recorded. An independent web reader rendered eight articles; it could not access the Halloween route, whose recovery is supported by the bounded public GET and the accepted saved route evidence. No production form, search query, authenticated endpoint, preview URL, or unrestricted crawl was used.

A later bounded independent rendering of the public Library and Rula Diab author page-6 URLs confirmed the same five cards, dates, and order as the derived local pages. The reader exposed rendered content but no HTTP/cache headers, so this is ordering evidence rather than proof of fresh origin content. The Phase 6A and saved route observations remain historical evidence.

Nine-Article Reconciliation Matrix

Destination	Source status and retrieval	SEO title / visible H1	Published / modified source date	Body, FAQ, and media	Decision
/library/autism-after-school-meltdowns	200, same URL/canonical, cached HubSpot prerender at 03:24:40Z	After-School Meltdowns in Autism: Why They Happen / After-School Meltdowns: Why Your Child Holds It Together at School and Falls Apart at Home	2026-09-01 / 2026-09-02	Complete body; 3 FAQs; 6 source article assets	Publish locally; Rula Diab; no translation key
/library/autism-back-to-school-transition	200, same URL/canonical, cached prerender at 03:24:41Z	Back-to-School Autism Transition: ABA Strategies / Back to School with Autism: ABA Strategies for a Smoother Transition	2026-09-10 / 2026-09-10	Complete body; 3 FAQs; 3 assets	Publish locally; Rula Diab; no translation key
/library/autism-daily-living-skills-challenges	200, same URL/canonical, cached prerender at 03:24:42Z	Daily Living Challenges in Autism: Eating, Sleep & Self-Care / Daily Living Challenges in Autism: Eating, Sleeping & Self-Care	2026-07-01 / 2026-07-09	Complete body; 6 FAQs; 3 assets	Publish locally; Rula Diab; no translation key
/library/autism-social-skills-by-age	200, same URL/canonical, revalidated prerender at 03:24:43Z	Autism Social Skills by Age: Childhood to Teens | AIA / Autism Social Skills by Age: How Social Development Changes as Kids Grow	2026-09-24 / 2026-09-24	Complete body; 3 FAQs; 4 assets	Publish locally; Rula Diab; no translation key
/library/does-aba-therapy-replace-school	200, same URL/canonical, cached prerender at 03:24:45Z	Does ABA Therapy Replace School? A Parent Guide / Does ABA Therapy Replace School?	2026-07-08 / 2026-07-22	Complete body; 4 FAQs; 3 assets	Publish locally; Rula Diab; no translation key
/library/halloween-and-autism	200, same URL/canonical, revalidated prerender at 03:24:46Z; independent reader unavailable	Halloween and Autism: Sensory-Friendly Tips for Families / Halloween and Autism: Making the Holiday Comfortable, Safe, and Fun	2026-10-01 / 2026-10-03	Complete recovered body; 3 FAQs; 3 assets	Publish locally with recorded freshness limitation; Rula Diab; no translation key
/library/how-many-hours-aba-child-need	200, same URL/canonical, revalidated prerender at 03:24:48Z	How Many Hours of ABA Does a Child Need? / same	2026-09-08 / 2026-09-08	Complete body; 7 FAQs; 3 assets	Publish locally; Rula Diab; no translation key
/library/picky-eating-autism-parent-guide	200, same URL/canonical, cached prerender at 03:24:49Z	Picky Eating and Autism: A Practical Parent Guide / Picky Eating and Restricted Diets in Autistic Children	2026-08-01 / 2026-10-03	Complete body; 5 FAQs; 5 assets	Publish locally; Rula Diab; no translation key
/library/sleep-issues-autistic-children	200, same URL/canonical, revalidated prerender at 03:24:50Z	Sleep Problems in Autism: Causes, Tips & When to Get Help / Sleep Issues in Autistic Children: Calmer Nights for the Whole Family	2026-09-28 / 2026-09-28	Complete body; 7 FAQs; 3 assets	Publish locally; Rula Diab; no translation key

All dates come from the public BlogPosting data and are stored as calendar dates rather than retrieval or migration dates. All nine public bylines identify Rula Diab, so the records use the validated rula-diab author reference. No source established a genuine article translation relationship, so no translationKey was created. All are ordinary local, indexable English publications; no placeholder, draft, external canonical, or noindex exception was used.

Content, Media, and Source Fidelity

The nine records are MDX because every source article includes an FAQ accordion. They preserve the substantive article sequence, paragraphs, lists, blockquotes, tables, figures, links, source headings and fragment targets, conclusion, and FAQ wording. Literal semantic headings retain source fragment IDs where Astro MDX does not accept Markdown attribute syntax. library-catalog.ts now extracts bounded visible literal HTML headings in addition to Markdown headings, so the metadata-only search index includes the migrated headings without serializing article bodies, scripts, code fences, or component implementation.

Generated-output comparison found every non-FAQ H2/H3 in the same order and wording after normalizing typographic apostrophes. All 41 FAQ questions and visible answers match their FAQPage entities. The established accordion presents questions through accessible <summary> controls rather than duplicating the source's raw HubSpot heading markup. Titles, visible H1s, dates, canonicals, Rula Diab bylines, BlogPosting entities, and FAQ counts match the evidence matrix. The source HTML itself was not committed; source/body hashes, extracted structure, links, FAQ data, cache headers, and destination hashes provide compact provenance.

Thirty-three source-backed image files were added (1,374,213 bytes total). Existing assets were checked first; no byte-identical local duplicate was found. Most files preserve the source WebP bytes and dimensions. The two very large source PNGs used source-served 400×400 and 600×400 JPEG renditions, stored with accurate .jpg extensions. Source alt text was preserved where useful. The picky-eating hero exposed no usable source alt, so the local contextual alt is Parent sitting with a child at a kitchen table during a meal. No stock substitute, generated image, placeholder diagram, or inaccessible download was added. Image and page-content audits find no missing references.

blog-footers.json now holds only source-observed previous, next, and related relationships for these routes. Two related play/leisure cards reuse the verified existing local JPEG rather than adding duplicate AVIF assets. The article how-many-hours-aba-child-need source CTA points to /lp/early-intervention, a separate live landing route absent from the accepted Astro route inventory. Its link text and consultation purpose are preserved, but its local destination is /client-consultation, the existing published consultation page. This single documented deviation prevents a cutover-time broken link without adding an out-of-scope landing page or redirect.

Derived Catalog, Pagination, Search, and SEO Results

The existing manifest-first catalog discovered all nine files automatically. The corpus is now 74 records: 55 English, 12 Spanish, and 7 Arabic. English Library pagination is 10/10/10/10/10/5 across pages 1–6; Spanish remains 10/2 and Arabic remains a seven-record single page. Because all 55 English records resolve to Rula Diab, the English author archive derives the same six page sizes. Spanish and Arabic author inventories remain unchanged. No manual page-6 record, page-count constant, page 7, translation, or alternate inventory was added.

Both page-6 routes contain, in order: Critical Thinking Skills for Children with Autism, November AIA Update, Managing Aggressive Behavior Outbursts and Proper Communication with Your Child During those Moments, Autism Play: Helping Autistic Children Build Play and Leisure Skills, and 4 Ways on How to Reduce Behavior Management. This order and the displayed November 28, October 31, October 30, September 26, and August 26, 2022 dates match the independently rendered public page-6 evidence. Both have five unique cards, a page-5 previous link, current page 6, and no page-7 link. /library/page/6 is self-canonical, index,follow in the indexing-enabled build, sitemap-eligible, and has no hreflang. /library/author/rula-diab/page/6 is self-canonical, noindex,follow, sitemap-excluded, and hreflang-excluded. Both remain statically navigable without JavaScript.

The English metadata search index now contains 55 records and includes all nine new routes, titles, descriptions, headings, author, category, and dates without body text. Final search assets measured: English 37,442 raw / 10,830 gzip / 9,068 Brotli bytes; Spanish 10,170 / 3,425 / 2,969; Arabic 6,234 / 1,981 / 1,624. No external search service, query transmission, tracking, cookie, or dependency was added.

The indexing-enabled build contains 121 HTML routes, 107 sitemap URLs, 174 hreflang links across 53 routes, 107 index,follow pages, 14 intentional noindex,follow pages, and 121 unique canonical targets. The nine new articles and Library page 6 account for ten new sitemap entries. Author page 6 remains outside the sitemap. The explicit translation graph and nine repository redirects are unchanged. The final normal staging artifact contains 121 HTML pages, all noindex,nofollow, an empty sitemap, and no hreflang.

The final schema-2 offline reconciliation is reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-11-offline-04-58-33-208Z.json. It reused the accepted 70 saved production requests, made no network requests, and passed an explicit read-only check. Its 133 dispositions now include 121 local generated routes and nine redirect definitions; the nine former production-live/local-missing article routes are locally generated. Saved production sitemap observations remain 102 and are not confused with the 107-URL local indexing-enabled sitemap.

Validation and Browser Limitation

Check	Result
npm run check	Passed: 91 Astro files; zero diagnostics
npm run test:library	Passed: 38 tests, including nine records, 55/12/7 catalog, page 6, author page 6, heading extraction, search, and staging/indexing fixtures
npm run test:seo	Passed: 34 tests; FAQ visible/schema identity, one H1, BlogPosting, canonical, and date behavior retained
npm run test:publication	Passed sequentially: 33 tests
npm run test:markdown	Passed: 20 tests
npm run test:routes	Passed: 10 tests
Normal npm run build	Passed; final artifact is the staging build with 121 routes
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build	Passed after the final content correction; 121 routes, 107 sitemap URLs, 174 hreflang links across 53 routes
Offline route reconciliation	New schema-2 artifact generated from the 70 accepted saved requests; explicit --check --evidence passed
npm run audit:links	Passed after the documented CTA destination reconciliation: zero broken internal links
npm run audit:images	Passed: zero missing mapped page images
npm run audit:blog	Passed: 74 bodies, 166 FAQ questions across 28 FAQ-bearing posts, 47 source-faithful blockquotes, zero failures
Generated-output source comparison	Passed for nine titles/H1s/dates/canonicals/authors, all non-FAQ source headings, 41 visible/schema FAQs, all media references, and both five-card page-6 routes
git diff --check	Passed before documentation; repeated during final structural review

The first focused build exposed unsupported Markdown {#id} heading attributes in Astro MDX; these became literal semantic headings with the same IDs. The first SEO run then exposed three FAQ answers where source <br><br> boundaries lacked a text-node space; their plain and visible representations were aligned without changing visible wording. Both suites passed after correction.

Two installed Chromium binaries were attempted for desktop/mobile and interaction coverage. Both terminate before page creation because the managed environment denies Chromium's process-singleton socket (socket() failed: Operation not permitted). No screenshot, touch, keyboard, JavaScript-disabled browser, or manual assistive-technology result is claimed. Generated HTML and regression checks establish image references, responsive source structure, headings, navigation boundaries, progressive static content, and page-6 semantics, but human desktop/mobile fidelity and interaction acceptance remain required.

Known Drift and Human Review

This milestone did not expand into an unrestricted rewrite of accepted content. The previously recorded Spanish self-advocacy date discrepancy, English school-readiness FAQ differences, potentially outdated age/program wording in older articles, unreconciled source modification timestamps, and inherited related-post metadata remain candidates for a separately bounded existing-article drift review. Fluent Spanish/Arabic operational-copy and biography review, a real screen-reader session, and the deferred author archive indexing/sitemap/hreflang decisions also remain open.

The new articles faithfully preserve source clinical, feeding, sleep, school, legal, and ABA-hours guidance. That fidelity is not independent clinical, legal, or organizational approval. AIA should review professional/clinical claims, external references, author attribution, and program-specific statements before cutover. The social-skills article's Learner Social Club ages 8–17 are program-specific and do not replace the accepted general ABA eligibility of 18 months through eight years. No Team membership or current employment conclusion was inferred from authorship.

Phase 6C File Inventory

Modified tracked files:

• reports/blog-content-audit.md
• reports/migration-summary.md
• reports/seo-audit.md
• src/data/blog-footers.json
• src/utils/library-catalog.ts
• tools/library.test.mjs

New content and evidence files:

• reports/phase-6c-source-evidence-2026-10-11.json
• reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-11-offline-04-58-33-208Z.json
• src/content/blog/en/autism-after-school-meltdowns.mdx
• src/content/blog/en/autism-back-to-school-transition.mdx
• src/content/blog/en/autism-daily-living-skills-challenges.mdx
• src/content/blog/en/autism-social-skills-by-age.mdx
• src/content/blog/en/does-aba-therapy-replace-school.mdx
• src/content/blog/en/halloween-and-autism.mdx
• src/content/blog/en/how-many-hours-aba-child-need.mdx
• src/content/blog/en/picky-eating-autism-parent-guide.mdx
• src/content/blog/en/sleep-issues-autistic-children.mdx

New self-hosted assets:

• public/assets/images/aba-hours-recommendation-delivery.webp
• public/assets/images/aba-therapy-replace-school.webp
• public/assets/images/aba-therapy-vs-school.webp
• public/assets/images/aba-to-group-transition.webp
• public/assets/images/abc-worksheet.webp
• public/assets/images/after-school-routine-chart.webp
• public/assets/images/autism-after-school-meltdowns_HERO.webp
• public/assets/images/autism-food-symptom-observations.webp
• public/assets/images/autism-social-skills-by-age_hero-1.webp
• public/assets/images/back-to-school.webp
• public/assets/images/bedtime-sensory-comfort.webp
• public/assets/images/collaborative-play.webp
• public/assets/images/daily-living-challenges-autism.webp
• public/assets/images/divided-meal-plate-food-introduction-400.jpg
• public/assets/images/first-then-visual-support-after-school.webp
• public/assets/images/food-chaining-example.webp
• public/assets/images/food-preferences-characteristics-infographic.webp
• public/assets/images/halloween-and-autism_hero2.webp
• public/assets/images/halloween-and-autism_simple-visual-schedule.webp
• public/assets/images/halloween-porch-candy-teal-pumpking-bookmarks.webp
• public/assets/images/last-straw-vs-whole-story.webp
• public/assets/images/learning-skill-generalization.webp
• public/assets/images/masking-school-decompressing-home-dyptich.webp
• public/assets/images/morning-routine-schedule.webp
• public/assets/images/parent-pediatric-support-team-meeting.webp
• public/assets/images/picky-eating-autism-parent-guide.webp
• public/assets/images/prompt-fading-therapist-help-600.jpg
• public/assets/images/recommended-hours-aba-therapy.webp
• public/assets/images/school-readiness-planning.webp
• public/assets/images/sleep-diary.webp
• public/assets/images/sleep-issues-autism-bedtime-routines.webp
• public/assets/images/social-demands-change-as-child-grows.webp
• public/assets/images/support-tools-transition-help.webp

The complete Phase 6C working set is 51 files: seven modified tracked files and 44 new files. reports/SESSION_HANDOFF.md remains unchanged pending human acceptance. The pre-existing untracked root merge-plan.md and superseded untracked reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-11-offline.json remain excluded and untouched. No file is staged or committed.

Phase 6C.1 — Confirmed Halloween Contextual Links (2026-10-11 UTC)

The immutable supplemental parity audit in reports/phase-6c-article-parity-audit-2026-10-11.md identified two narrow, source-supported corrections that do not depend on the separately reviewed material rewrites. In src/content/blog/en/autism-self-advocacy-skills-aba.md, the sentence beginning “Our Halloween planning guide” was restored immediately after the examples of requesting a break, choosing, and saying no. In src/content/blog/en/aac-visual-supports-autism.mdx, the sentence beginning “For a seasonal example” was restored after the low-tech/high-tech comparison and before Using Visual Supports in Everyday Life. The respective anchor texts, Halloween planning guide and trick-or-treating with an autistic child, both use the normalized local destination /library/halloween-and-autism; HubSpot's ?hsLang=en-us parameter was intentionally omitted.

The self-advocacy sentence was independently established by the supplemental audit from an HTTP 200 cached HubSpot prerender at 2026-10-11T07:34:03Z and an independent public text rendering. A single bounded AAC retrieval at 2026-10-11T17:57:14Z returned HTTP 200 and confirmed the exact sentence and placement; it was a HubSpot prerender/cache HIT with Last-Modified: Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:19:37 GMT. The local curl environment could not validate the public certificate chain, so that request used certificate-verification bypass and is corroborating cached-public evidence rather than proof of fresh origin content. No other article text, heading, frontmatter, publication date, author, metadata, footer relationship, publication policy, or route was changed.

Sequential validation passed after directing temporary fixtures to the writable /tmp root: 20 Markdown tests, 33 publication tests, an indexing-enabled build, a final normal staging build, the link audit with zero broken internal links, generated-output assertions for exactly one restored destination link in each article, and git diff --check. The first Markdown attempt did not execute assertions because the inherited Nix TMPDIR was permission-denied; the unchanged suite passed completely with TMPDIR=/tmp. The indexing-enabled artifact retained 121 HTML routes, 107 sitemap URLs, and 174 hreflang links across 53 routes. The final staging artifact contains 121 noindex,nofollow HTML pages, an empty sitemap, no hreflang, 55/12/7 search records, and nine redirect definitions.

The remaining material reconciliation batches are unchanged: the English aba-school-readiness-arizona, aba-school-readiness-guide, and autism-fall-break-routine-tips-halloween-thanksgiving rewrites, plus the Spanish aba-school-readiness-arizona rewrite requiring fluent language and editorial review. The fall-break article's Halloween link remains part of that full rewrite. The parity audit was not modified, reports/SESSION_HANDOFF.md was not advanced, and all Phase 6C.1 changes remain unstaged and uncommitted.

Phase 6C.2 — Material Article and Translation Reconciliation (2026-10-11 UTC)

Starting Point, Scope, and Source Evidence

This work continued from checkpoint a699d467f19fafbfdda5fce1ce6226baa6e5fc3c while preserving the unstaged Phase 6C and Phase 6C.1 working set. It replaces three materially outdated English articles, replaces the corresponding outdated Spanish school-readiness record from its current public Spanish source, replaces the superseded Arabic school-readiness article with a complete Arabic counterpart to the revised English antecedent/consequence publication, and audits all explicit English–Spanish and English–Arabic Library relationships. It does not add routes, change publication policy, create translations for unpaired articles, resolve the /lp/early-intervention gate, or advance SESSION_HANDOFF.md.

Evidence is recorded in reports/phase-6c2-source-evidence-2026-10-11.json and the complete relationship matrix in reports/phase-6c2-translation-equivalence-2026-10-11.md. Five bounded public GETs between 2026-10-11T20:28:44Z and 20:28:49Z returned HTTP 200 without redirects. The English school-readiness, English antecedent/consequence, and English fall-break responses were cache HIT; Spanish school readiness and the old Arabic school article were REVALIDATED. All declared cache-control: s-maxage=36000, max-age=5 and preserved HubSpot prerender/Last-Modified timestamps from October 3 or October 7. These are current cached public representations, not independently fresh origin responses. The sandbox could not validate its CA path, so the bounded curl requests used certificate-verification bypass. No form, search query, authenticated API, preview URL, or unrestricted crawl was used.

English Reconciliations

Route	Previous local publication	Reconciled public publication	Result
/library/aba-school-readiness-arizona	ABA School Readiness in Arizona | AIA Preparatory Academy (Ages 2–6); 729-word promotional record; seven FAQs; no body infographic	SEO title ABA School Readiness in Arizona: A Parent Guide; H1 ABA School Readiness for Autistic Children in Arizona; current description; 18 pre-FAQ H2/H3 headings; one semantic table; two body infographics; nine FAQs; published 2025-08-21, modified 2026-09-17	Full current parent guide restored. It preserves distinctions among access, individualized supports, clinical ABA, school responsibilities, and the 2–6 Preparatory Academy program.
/library/aba-school-readiness-guide	Short Ease Back-to-School Time article in .md, using the old school-transition subject and hero	SEO title Antecedent Interventions & Consequence Strategies in ABA; H1 Antecedent and Consequence Interventions in ABA: Strategies and Examples; 19 substantive headings before the FAQ; ABC explanation; three semantic tables; three body images; six FAQs; final AIA section; published 2024-07-30, modified 2026-08-13	The old .md record was replaced by one .mdx record at the same route. No duplicate content identity remains.
/library/autism-fall-break-routine-tips-halloween-thanksgiving	Older title/description/H1, older paragraphs and FAQ set	SEO title Autism and Fall Break: Routines and Transition Tips; H1 Autism and Fall Break: How to Keep Routines Calm and Predictable; nine substantive headings; two tables; two body images; revised six-FAQ set; modified 2026-10-03	The complete current body was restored, including the normalized contextual link to /library/halloween-and-autism.

All three retain their established route, local canonical, English locale, Rula Diab author reference, publication date, Library category, and explicit translation-key status. Source-supported updatedDate values were added; migration time was not used as a publication date. MDX literal headings retain source fragment IDs, and visible FAQ text remains identical to its FAQPage entity.

The directly modified English footer records now use the source-observed relationships. School readiness relates to emotional regulation, first-evaluation expectations, and the ABA-versus-school guide. Antecedent/consequence relates to the behavior-functions, proactive/reactive, and ABA-versus-school guides. Fall break retains its source-observed previous/next boundaries and relates to social skills by age, the Halloween guide, and AAC/visual supports. The Spanish school-readiness footer now retains its single source-observed emotional-regulation relationship. Dependent old titles in unrelated footer records remain assigned to Phase 6C.5.

Translation-Equivalence Audit and Replacements

The content collection contains 19 explicit blog relationships: 12 English–Spanish and seven English–Arabic. Before Phase 6C.2, 15 were substantively equivalent, two self-advocacy pairs had only minor drift from the newly restored English Halloween sentence, Spanish school readiness had substantial structural drift, and the Arabic aba-school-readiness-guide relationship had become a different article with both structural and semantic drift. The complete route-by-route evidence and classifications are in the dedicated translation report.

The 15 substantively equivalent translations were retained without literalizing their wording. The Spanish and Arabic self-advocacy records were also retained because their missing Halloween contextual sentence does not alter the principal subject, clinical guidance, structure, or conclusion; that small optional addition belongs to the later link/editorial batch.

/es/library/aba-school-readiness-arizona now transcribes the current public Spanish guide. It uses the public Spanish title, description, H1, 18-heading structure, table, nine FAQs, two Spanish-language infographics, localized links where validated, its independent 2025-09-02 publication date, and source-supported 2026-09-25 modification date. English-only article destinations are retained only where no real Spanish counterpart exists and are labeled en inglés; no locale-prefixed URL was guessed. The public Spanish wording requires fluent Spanish, clinical/editorial, and organizational acceptance despite being source-published.

/ar/library/aba-school-readiness-guide now contains a complete Modern Standard Arabic translation of the revised English antecedent/consequence article. It preserves the Arabic route, 2024-07-30 publication date, author, and explicit translation key; no unsupported Arabic updatedDate was invented. The record includes all substantive sections, the ABC explanation, three semantic tables, six FAQs, all three body images, Arabic alternatives and explanatory context, references, conclusion, and same-locale links where validated. English-only links use Arabic anchor text that announces the language change. Principal Latin abbreviations use LTR isolation, and a shared narrow-screen table rule provides horizontal scrolling without changing the page's RTL direction.

The Arabic public route remains the superseded short school-readiness article, so this migration-produced translation is intentionally ahead of HubSpot. It is not professionally translated or clinically approved and is a pre-cutover fluent-Arabic and clinical/editorial acceptance blocker. The three reused diagrams contain embedded English text. Arabic alternatives, tables, and surrounding prose convey their essential information, but localized graphics remain a visual-translation and accessibility review item.

No explicit translation relationship exists for the fall-break article, so no Spanish or Arabic route was created. Translation keys, local canonicals, indexing eligibility, sitemap eligibility, visitor-language navigation, and hreflang rules were preserved. The repaired English–Arabic relationship remains technically reciprocal, but human semantic acceptance is still required before production.

Media, Accessibility, and Clinical Review

Eight exact source-backed WebP assets were added: English and Spanish school-readiness overview/progression infographics, the antecedent/consequence hero, the ABC diagram, the environmental-distraction photograph, and the replacement-behavior diagram. Their provenance, dimensions, and SHA-256 values are recorded in the source-evidence report. The English and Spanish infographics preserve their source language. Arabic reuses the English graphics with complete Arabic textual alternatives rather than fabricating localized diagrams.

Article tables remain semantic <table> structures. At viewports up to 700 pixels, .blog-post-body table becomes a bounded horizontal scrolling region; this narrowly prevents clipped English, Spanish, and RTL Arabic tables without redesigning article typography. Generated output confirms lang="ar", dir="rtl", one H1, three tables, three body images, and six matching FAQ entities on the Arabic page. No executable Chromium, Playwright, Puppeteer package, or screen reader was available, so no touch, screenshot, visual-overflow, or assistive-technology claim is made.

Clinical/editorial and organizational reviewers must assess the Academy's stated ages 2–6 and 1:2 ratio separately from AIA's accepted general ABA eligibility of 18 months through eight years; the clinical-versus-educational boundary; Arizona education/access statements; functional assessment; reinforcement and differential reinforcement; ignoring/extinction; aggression, self-injury, and safety guidance; BCBA involvement; and claims about participation or expected outcomes. Fluent reviewers must assess Spanish school-readiness terminology and all Arabic behavior-analytic terminology.

Publication, SEO, Route, and Search Invariants

This phase modifies existing records only. The corpus remains 55 English, 12 Spanish, and seven Arabic articles (74 total), with six English Library pages, six English author pages, two Spanish Library/author pages, and single Arabic roots. The indexing-enabled build contains 121 HTML routes, 107 sitemap URLs, 174 hreflang links across 53 routes, 107 index,follow pages, 14 intentional noindex,follow pages, and 121 unique canonical targets. All five modified routes are self-canonical; the two repaired translation sets retain their three-link English/translated/x-default relationships, while the unpaired fall-break route has none. Author archives remain noindex, sitemap-excluded, and hreflang-excluded. Nine repository redirects remain unchanged.

The metadata-only search indexes remain at 55 English, 12 Spanish, and seven Arabic records. Updated titles, descriptions, and headings flow from the shared catalog; no body, FAQ answer, private data, external search service, or tracking was added.

The final schema-2 route evidence is reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-11-offline-20-48-03-927Z.json. It reused the accepted 70 saved requests, made no network requests, and passed the explicit read-only consistency check against the restored staging build. Its 133 dispositions contain 121 locally generated routes and nine repository redirect definitions. The immutable earlier Phase 6C reconciliation and 74-article parity audit remain preserved.

Validation Results and Corrections Found

Check	Result
npm run check	Passed: 91 files; zero errors, warnings, or hints
npm run test:markdown	Passed: 20/20 with TMPDIR=/tmp after current source-backed school-readiness ratio assertions replaced the old article assumptions
npm run test:publication	Passed sequentially: 33/33
npm run test:seo	Passed sequentially: 34/34; every visible FAQ answer matches FAQPage text
npm run test:library	Passed: 39/39, including complete Phase 6C.2 headings, FAQs, tables, assets, links, catalog, search, pagination, author, navigation, and both build modes
npm run test:routes	Passed: 10/10
Normal npm run build	Passed; final artifact contains 121 routes
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build	Passed; 107 sitemap URLs and 174 hreflang links across 53 routes
npm run audit:links	Passed: zero broken internal links
npm run audit:images	Passed: zero missing mapped page images
npm run audit:blog	Passed after recognizing the established Arabic FAQ label: 74 bodies, 182 questions across 30 FAQ-bearing posts, 58 source-faithful blockquotes, zero failures
Offline route reconciliation	New schema-2 staging artifact generated from saved evidence; explicit --check --evidence passed
Generated-output checks	Passed for locale/direction, titles/H1s, canonicals, robots, tables, images, FAQ entity counts, publication totals, sitemap, and hreflang
git diff --check	Repeated in the final structural review

The first Markdown invocation inherited an inaccessible Nix TMPDIR and executed no assertions; it passed with TMPDIR=/tmp. Its first source-aware rerun exposed assertions for the obsolete school-readiness ratios, so the test was updated to the current public 1:1 support and 1:2 program statements. The first SEO run exposed FAQ HTML boundaries whose DOM text omitted spaces between source paragraphs. Text-node spacing was restored without changing visible wording, and all FAQ/schema checks then passed. The blog audit originally accepted only English and Spanish FAQ labels; it now recognizes the established Arabic الأسئلة الشائعة label.

The indexing-mode reconciliation artifact was internally valid when created, but its local sitemap eligibility state intentionally differed after the required staging rebuild. It was superseded locally by the final staging artifact above and was not retained. The final normal build contains 121 pages, all noindex,nofollow, an empty sitemap, and no hreflang.

Phase 6C.2 File Inventory and Remaining Gates

Phase 6C.2 adds eight image assets, the two evidence reports, and the final offline reconciliation. It replaces the English and Arabic aba-school-readiness-guide.md files with one .mdx record per locale; modifies the English and Spanish school-readiness records and the English fall-break record; updates their direct footer relationships; adds the responsive article-table rule; extends the Library and Markdown assertions; teaches the blog audit its Arabic FAQ label; refreshes the blog audit report; and appends this implementation record. No dependency, route definition, publication policy, redirect, service page, form, analytics, advertising, ContactObfuscation, navigation, hosting, or deployment file changed.

The exact Phase 6C.2 paths are:

• public/assets/images/antecedent-behavior-consequence.webp
• public/assets/images/antecedent-consequence.webp
• public/assets/images/one-to-one-to-group-progression.webp
• public/assets/images/one-to-one-to-group-progression_es.webp
• public/assets/images/reduce-environmental-distractions.webp
• public/assets/images/reinforcement-replacement-behavior.webp
• public/assets/images/school-readiness-supports-infographic.webp
• public/assets/images/school-readiness-supports-infographic_es.webp
• reports/blog-content-audit.md
• reports/migration-summary.md
• reports/phase-6c2-source-evidence-2026-10-11.json
• reports/phase-6c2-translation-equivalence-2026-10-11.md
• reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-11-offline-20-48-03-927Z.json
• src/content/blog/ar/aba-school-readiness-guide.md (removed)
• src/content/blog/ar/aba-school-readiness-guide.mdx (added)
• src/content/blog/en/aba-school-readiness-arizona.mdx
• src/content/blog/en/aba-school-readiness-guide.md (removed)
• src/content/blog/en/aba-school-readiness-guide.mdx (added)
• src/content/blog/en/autism-fall-break-routine-tips-halloween-thanksgiving.mdx
• src/content/blog/es/aba-school-readiness-arizona.mdx
• src/data/blog-footers.json
• src/styles/blog.css
• tools/audit-blog-content.mjs
• tools/library.test.mjs
• tools/markdown.test.mjs

Manual acceptance must cover the complete English school-readiness, antecedent/consequence, and fall-break articles; the complete public-source Spanish school-readiness article; and the new Arabic antecedent/consequence article at desktop and approximately 390-pixel widths. Review headings, all tables and diagrams, all FAQs, contextual and footer links, English-to-Spanish/Arabic language choices, RTL ordering, abbreviation isolation, keyboard focus, and horizontal overflow with and without JavaScript.

Remaining Phase 6C work includes Phase 6C.4 metadata and featured-image accessibility, Phase 6C.5 link and related-post fidelity, and Phase 6C.6 final parity validation and acceptance. Outstanding gates also include fluent Spanish and Arabic review, clinical/editorial and organizational approval, localized Arabic diagrams or explicit acceptance of the accessible-text treatment, real screen-reader testing, the /lp/early-intervention ownership decision, deferred author archive SEO decisions, and Contabo/nginx slashless/HTTPS/redirect/404 verification. Phase 6C is not declared accepted, and reports/SESSION_HANDOFF.md remains unchanged.

Phase 6C.3 — Article Metadata, Featured-Image Accessibility, and Arabic Diagram Localization (2026-10-12 UTC)

Phase-numbering clarification

The originally planned Phase 6C.3 Spanish school-readiness reconciliation was incorporated into the expanded Phase 6C.2 multilingual implementation. The remaining phases have therefore been renumbered: metadata/accessibility becomes 6C.3, links/related-post reconciliation becomes 6C.4, and final parity acceptance becomes 6C.5. Historical implementation and audit records retain their original context.

This clarification supersedes the forward-looking Phase 6C.4/6C.5/6C.6 labels in the dated Phase 6C.2 record above without relabeling work that was actually performed. Spanish school readiness remains part of Phase 6C.2; no separate completed Spanish Phase 6C.3 milestone was created. The immutable Phase 6C parity audit, Phase 6C.2 evidence files, and reports/SESSION_HANDOFF.md were not rewritten.

Scope and evidence

Work continued from checkpoint a699d467f19fafbfdda5fce1ce6226baa6e5fc3c while preserving the complete unstaged Phase 6C, 6C.1, and 6C.2 working set. The implementation reconciles article hero descriptions, remaining source H1s, four truncated descriptions, supported modification dates, and the three English-text diagrams in the new Arabic antecedent/consequence article. It does not change article bodies beyond the Arabic image references and alternatives, publication eligibility, slugs, canonicals, translation keys, pagination, search, redirects, footer relationships, forms, tracking, or hosting.

The complete route matrix is reports/phase-6c3-metadata-reconciliation-2026-10-12.md; reproducible source details are in reports/phase-6c3-source-evidence-2026-10-12.json. Sixty-one bounded public GETs on October 12 returned HTTP 200 without route changes. They covered only records still lacking a hero description or modification date after Phase 6C.2. Requests used an audit user agent and Cache-Control: no-cache; TLS verification was bypassed because the sandbox CA path was unavailable. The evidence records HubSpot BlogPosting values, Last-Modified, prerender timestamps, and the earlier immutable audit's cache/hash observations. These cached public representations do not prove fresh origin content. No forms, searches, preview URLs, authenticated APIs, or unrestricted crawl were used.

Recalculated discrepancies and metadata decisions

Field	Original audit	After Phase 6C.2	After Phase 6C.3	Result
Missing or unsuitable hero alt	65	60	0	Sixty localized descriptions added after visual inspection; all 74 current heroes are informative.
Public H1 differences	12	7	0	Five material rewrites resolved five; seven remaining displayH1 values restored here.
Truncated descriptions	4 older plus 4 material rewrites	4	0	Four complete public English values restored.
Missing updatedDate	65	61	1	Sixty evidence-backed values added; one intentionally unresolved Arabic translation.

The seven restored headings are the Arabic first-then-cards-autism-transitions heading; Spanish executive-functioning-skills-autism and parents-guide-to-autism-and-aba; and English communication-social-skills-autistic-children-guide, executive-functioning-skills-autism, individualized-aba-therapy, and parents-guide-to-autism-and-aba. The exact public strings are recorded in the matrix and guarded by focused tests. The complete source descriptions were restored for English aba-therapy-benefits, community-highlight-meet-rula-diab, new-aia-scottsdale-office, and november-2022-aia-update. The two syndicated records retain their accepted external canonicals, noindex policy, sitemap exclusion, and schema exclusion.

All 74 current featured images were visually classified as informative in their article context. The 60 missing frontmatter values now contain concise English, Spanish, or Arabic descriptions of the actual image rather than blindly copying truncated, title-like, keyword-style, or wrong-language HubSpot alternatives. There are no decorative empty-alt exceptions in this audited corpus, but tests do not impose nonempty alt on future genuinely decorative assets. Article alt now agrees with og:image:alt and twitter:image:alt.

The 60 modification dates were present as explicit public BlogPosting dateModified values in both the October 11 audit evidence and the October 12 bounded pass, and each is on or after its locale-specific publication date. They are preserved as public structured-data metadata without claiming every CMS update was a substantive editorial revision. HTTP Last-Modified and prerender timestamps remain separate evidence and were not copied into frontmatter. The new /ar/library/aba-school-readiness-guide translation deliberately remains without updatedDate: its public Arabic URL still serves the superseded school-readiness article, so that article's timestamp cannot support the new translation. Original publication dates remain unchanged, and Library/author ordering still uses publication date followed by normalized route rather than modification date.

Arabic diagram localization

The Arabic antecedent/consequence article now references three separate self-contained SVGs instead of the English-text WebPs:

English source	Arabic counterpart	Visible Arabic treatment
antecedent-behavior-consequence.webp	antecedent-behavior-consequence_ar.svg	ABC headings, card labels, consequence, and first/then outcome localized; 800×450 source sequence retained.
reduce-environmental-distractions.webp	reduce-environmental-distractions_ar.svg	Calm-corner poster labels localized over the unchanged source photograph; 800×450.
reinforcement-replacement-behavior.webp	reinforcement-replacement-behavior_ar.svg	Situation, path, response, replacement, support, and reinforcement labels localized; 800×533.

Each SVG embeds the exact source raster to remain self-contained when served through an <img>, overlays Arabic labels, preserves semantically meaningful colors and relationships, and has a distinct _ar filename. The causal panel sequence remains left-to-right where reversing it could change the temporal meaning; individual labels use RTL direction. The MDX provides complete Arabic alternatives, and adjacent prose plus semantic tables continue to convey the same information without relying on the images. The SVGs were rendered locally at native dimensions for inspection. Browser/mobile overflow, fluent-Arabic terminology, clinical accuracy, and real screen-reader acceptance remain human gates.

At viewports up to 700 pixels, only these detailed diagrams keep a 720-pixel minimum image width inside a named, keyboard-focusable horizontal scroll region with a visible focus outline. This preserves label legibility without causing page-level horizontal overflow; generated markup and CSS were verified, while actual 390-pixel browser behavior remains on the manual checklist.

Publication, SEO, and validation results

No publication count changed. The indexing-enabled build contains 55 English, 12 Spanish, and seven Arabic Library records; 121 HTML routes; nine author archives; 107 sitemap URLs; 174 hreflang links across 53 routes; 107 index,follow pages; 14 intentional noindex,follow pages; and 121 unique canonical targets. Search indexes remain 55/12/7 records and the redirect registry remains nine definitions. The final staging build contains 121 HTML pages, all noindex,nofollow, an empty sitemap, and no hreflang.

Check	Result
npm run check	Passed: 91 files, zero diagnostics.
npm run test:markdown	Passed sequentially with TMPDIR=/tmp: 20/20.
npm run test:publication	Passed sequentially: 33/33.
npm run test:seo	Passed sequentially: 35/35, including exact dateModified and article/social alt behavior.
npm run test:library	Passed sequentially: 40/40, including metadata totals and Arabic asset references.
npm run test:routes	Passed sequentially: 10/10.
Normal and PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true builds	Passed; counts match the unchanged baseline.
npm run audit:links	Passed: zero broken internal links.
npm run audit:images	Passed: zero missing mapped page images.
npm run audit:blog	Passed: zero blog-content failures.
Offline route reconciliation	Final source-matching reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-12-offline-22-12-30-166Z.json generated from the accepted 70 saved requests; explicit read-only check passed with no network or writes.
SVG/generated output review	All three SVGs report the intended dimensions; Arabic HTML references only the _ar.svg body diagrams and retains complete Arabic alt text.
git diff --check	Passed in final structural review.

No Chromium, Playwright, Puppeteer, or screen reader was available. The three SVGs were rasterized and visually inspected with local image tooling, but desktop/390-pixel browser layout, touch, page overflow, fluent-language quality, clinical meaning, and assistive-technology behavior are not claimed as accepted.

Phase 6C.3 file inventory and remaining work

The 60 frontmatter records changed in this phase are identified exactly by file and route in phase-6c3-source-evidence-2026-10-12.json and exhaustively by route in the 74-record metadata matrix: six Arabic, 11 Spanish, and 43 English records. The Arabic aba-school-readiness-guide.mdx also changes its three body image references and alternatives. The other Phase 6C.3 paths are:

• public/assets/images/antecedent-behavior-consequence_ar.svg
• public/assets/images/reduce-environmental-distractions_ar.svg
• public/assets/images/reinforcement-replacement-behavior_ar.svg
• reports/accessibility-audit.md
• reports/migration-summary.md
• reports/page-imagery-audit.md
• reports/phase-6c3-metadata-reconciliation-2026-10-12.md
• reports/phase-6c3-source-evidence-2026-10-12.json
• reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-12-offline-22-12-30-166Z.json
• reports/seo-audit.md
• src/content/blog/ar/aba-school-readiness-guide.mdx
• src/styles/blog.css
• tools/library.test.mjs
• tools/seo.test.mjs

Historical Phase 6C.1/6C.2 reports and evidence were not modified. reports/SESSION_HANDOFF.md remains unchanged. No dependencies, publication-policy files, redirect files, Blog footer data, service/page content, navigation, ContactObfuscation, forms, APIs, analytics, advertising, or hosting/deployment configuration changed in Phase 6C.3.

The earlier untracked reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-12-offline.json was generated before the final narrow-screen diagram wrapper and is superseded by the timestamped source-matching report. It remains unmodified and unstaged as intermediate local evidence rather than being presented as the final reconciliation.

The revised remaining sequence is Phase 6C.4 for internal-link and related-post fidelity and Phase 6C.5 for final Library parity validation and acceptance. Other pre-cutover gates remain clinical/editorial and organizational approval, fluent Spanish and Arabic review, real screen-reader acceptance, the /lp/early-intervention ownership decision, deferred author-archive SEO policy, and Contabo/nginx slashless/HTTPS/redirect/404 verification. Phase 6C is not declared accepted.

Phase 6C.4 — Internal-link and related-post fidelity — 2026-10-13

Scope and source evidence

Work continued on faithful-astro-migration at a699d467f19fafbfdda5fce1ce6226baa6e5fc3c, with the complete Phase 6C–6C.3 working set preserved and no staged changes. This phase reconciles links and curated footer relationships across the actual 74-record Library catalog. It does not change publication policy, metadata, dates, translations/route identity, navigation, search, redirects, dependencies, forms, tracking, or hosting. SESSION_HANDOFF.md remains unchanged; Phase 6C is not declared accepted.

The complete 74-article matrix, all 37 changed footer entries, all 25 narrowly edited article files, validation and manual checklist are in reports/phase-6c4-link-reconciliation-2026-10-13.md. Exact source/body anchors, requested URLs, cache evidence, source hashes and before/after footer relationships are in reports/phase-6c4-link-evidence-2026-10-13.json.

The review uses 66 saved October 11 supplemental-audit responses and two later October 11 Phase 6C.2 responses, plus six bounded public article GETs on October 13 at 00:27:54–00:28:01 UTC. The six refreshed pages were Spanish school readiness, English antecedent/consequence, Spanish and Arabic self-advocacy, play/leisure, and behavior modification. All returned HTTP 200, HubSpot HIT, and October 3 prerender timestamps. These are served public/cache observations, not independent proof of origin freshness. Public robots rules were checked; no full-site crawl, form/search submission, authenticated API, or conversion event was performed. An initial GET batch failed CA validation; public read-only retrieval was repeated with TLS verification disabled because this environment lacks a usable CA bundle. No private headers, credentials, or full redundant HTML captures enter the repository evidence.

Re-established differences and implementation

Of the original 28 footer findings, 25 still had membership/title/previous-next differences. The three English rewrites already had the correct destinations and titles, but differed in source order. The new comparison also counted eight order-only differences in total. All 33 source comparisons are reconciled. Four additional Arabic footer entries still referenced the superseded back-to-school title; they now label the accepted Arabic antecedent/consequence replacement correctly while preserving the source relationships. Thus 37 footer records changed: 24 English, nine Spanish and four Arabic.

Previous, next and related recommendations remain separate curated fields in blog-footers.json; no date- or keyword-based recommendation algorithm was introduced. English/Spanish school-readiness labels use their verified related-widget titles, not interchangeable SEO titles. English antecedent/consequence labels use its current source H1. The four Arabic references use the current 6C.2 Arabic H1 instead of restoring obsolete HubSpot copy. The nine newly migrated articles' own footer records remain byte-for-byte equivalent as data to the phase-start snapshot. All final footer targets are eligible same-locale article publications, without duplicate recommendations or accidental self-recommendations. BlogPostFooter.astro needs no change.

Body edits affect 25 files: 17 English, five Spanish, three Arabic:

• Thirteen homepage destinations now point directly to / rather than /index, matching the public source (11 English, two Spanish). The two Spanish corporate homepage links intentionally retain the source English-root destination; the accepted locale-aware shared navigation is unchanged.
• Ten exact external URL occurrences in six articles regain the source .html suffix. Four distinct CDC/Indiana resources returned 404 without the suffix and 200 with it. This includes two escaped FAQ links missed by the first editing pass and caught by the final source comparison.
• The English and Spanish evaluation articles regain their source CDC screening links around existing wording. Three First/Then articles regain their source “Stay tuned” self-links; no shop URL is fabricated.
• Spanish and Arabic self-advocacy each gain one faithful localized version of the accepted English Halloween-planning sentence, immediately after the break/choice/no examples. Their public localized captures still lack this passage, so these are new local translations, not claimed HubSpot transcriptions. Both link to /library/halloween-and-autism with explicit en inglés / بالإنجليزية labels. Fluent-language review remains required. No translated Halloween route or new translation relationship is created.
• The behavior-modification article's ABC preview now links to the existing full-size worksheet. Its downloaded public source and local file have identical SHA-256 d6eb8194cb2e27127fc18f454016c9d56ca6ef8cf271fd4d53dedc1054b6a78c; no asset was added.
• Play/leisure retains two native full-size image links. The first now reaches the source expanded image; two duplicate expanded images and orphaned close symbols left by the old lightbox extraction were removed. This is an intentional static image-link alternative to HubSpot's modal overlay, usable without a client dependency. Browser Back/focus/visual acceptance remains manual.

The final selected-source comparison has no unexplained body-link differences after normalizing insignificant apostrophe typography. Remaining differences are explicitly accounted for: the approved Arabic rewrite, destination-language annotations, the two localized Halloween additions, self-hosted image targets/static image interaction, and the provisional consultation CTA. All four internal picky-eating section fragments resolve to unique IDs; all article HTML IDs are unique. External sensory-processing text fragments remain source references rather than claimed remote-browser acceptance.

All 25 edited article frontmatter blocks remain byte-identical to the phase-start snapshot, including publication/modification dates and featured-image alternatives. The five substantive Phase 6C.2 files and the two Phase 6C.1 English Halloween additions are unchanged. No body paragraphs were rewritten beyond the two authorized localized contextual additions and removal of duplicated lightbox implementation fragments.

Unresolved external and owner decisions

The Scottsdale syndicated original-article link now matches the source .html URL. Both tested variants were rate-limited with HTTP 429; the suffixless variant first redirected to a slash. Current availability is not claimed and needs an ordinary later human check. No rate-limit bypass or generic homepage substitution was attempted; the syndicated canonical/noindex exceptions remain intact.

The public /library/how-many-hours-aba-child-need body points to /lp/early-intervention, while local /client-consultation remains unchanged and provisional. These destinations are not declared equivalent. No landing-page import, /lp/ route/redirect or backend was created. Explicit owner authorization under the Phase 9 gate is still required before cutover.

Validation and publication safeguards

Tests ran sequentially with TMPDIR=/tmp for fixture compatibility:

Command	Result
npm run check	91 files, zero diagnostics
npm run test:markdown	20 passed
npm run test:publication	33 passed
npm run test:seo	35 passed
npm run test:library	44 passed
npm run test:routes	10 passed
npm run build	Passed; normal staging output restored last
PUBLIC_ALLOW_INDEXING=true npm run build	Passed
npm run audit:links	Zero broken internal links
npm run audit:images	Zero missing mapped page images
npm run audit:blog	Zero failures
git diff --check	Passed

Four added Library tests inspect every footer's eligibility, locale and rendered labels/order, all article-body internal destinations/assets/fragments, representative source relationships, current recommendation titles, duplicate/self-recommendation prevention, multilingual Halloween links, exact FAQ/external URLs, static image links and the unresolved CTA exception. Generated-output tests use the shared publication manifest; they do not substitute for editorial, linguistic or accessibility acceptance.

Initial scratch Library/route-check invocations from the repository root failed before running a suite and were reissued from www. Two inherited trailing whitespace endings on touched lines were removed to satisfy git diff --check. After the final comparison exposed two still-suffixless FAQ URLs, those were corrected and Markdown/SEO/Library tests, both builds and all three output audits passed again. No unresolved automated failure remains.

The final totals remain 55/12/7 articles and search records, 74 total records, 121 HTML routes, nine author archive routes, 107 indexing-enabled sitemap URLs, 174 hreflang links across 53 routes, and nine redirects. All 121 HTML documents have one canonical and 121 unique canonical targets, preserving the external syndicated targets. Author archives remain self-canonical/noindex,follow, sitemap-excluded and hreflang-excluded in indexing-enabled mode. Library and author page 6 each retain five cards with their different approved SEO policies. Final staging has 121 noindex,nofollow pages, zero sitemap URLs and zero hreflang.

Final schema-2 offline evidence is reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-13-offline-03-01-03-889Z.json. It was generated with npm run audit:routes -- --offline --evidence reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-12-offline-22-12-30-166Z.json, then validated with npm run audit:routes -- --check --evidence reports/route-reconciliation-2026-10-13-offline-03-01-03-889Z.json. Both passed. The report reuses 70 saved production requests and contains 133 dispositions. Its 102 inherited production sitemap observations must not be confused with the new 107-URL Astro sitemap. The earlier route-reconciliation-2026-10-13-offline.json is retained as superseded intermediate evidence captured before the final FAQ URL repairs; the timestamped report matches the final application fingerprint. No historical report was overwritten.

Browser limitations, inventory and review gate

Local Chromium failed because sandbox socket creation was denied. Remote Playwright could open a blank page but could not reach loopback output; subsequent interception/snapshot calls failed with a closed transport. No successful local desktop/mobile, keyboard, touch, no-JavaScript browser or screen-reader acceptance is claimed. All static links, targets and unique fragment IDs were checked in generated HTML. Manual acceptance must cover exact footer titles/order, previous/next navigation, the two localized additions, full-size image opening and Back, fragments, focus, 390px wrapping and no-JavaScript navigation. The existing Arabic diagram raster-label concealment and Arabic legibility checks remain outstanding.

The phase-specific inventory is 25 article files listed in the reconciliation matrix, plus src/data/blog-footers.json, tools/library.test.mjs, reports/migration-summary.md, and the appended finding in reports/accessibility-audit.md. New files are the dated link matrix/evidence JSON and the two separately named October 13 offline reconciliation artifacts. No assets or components were added or modified. The matrix includes the final cumulative git status --short and git diff --stat, which also include earlier unstaged Phase 6C work.

merge-plan.md was not read, modified or checksummed. Both protected superseded October 11/12 reports remain untouched and untracked. The staging area remains empty; no commit, push, deployment or redirect activation occurred. The living handoff is unchanged.

Next remains Phase 6C.5 — Final Library parity validation and acceptance; it has not begun. Other gates remain clinical/editorial/organizational approval, fluent Spanish/Arabic review, Arabic diagram visual-language acceptance, real screen-reader testing, the Phase 9 landing-page ownership decision, deferred author archive SEO decisions and Contabo/nginx slashless routing, HTTPS, redirect and 404 verification.

Phase 6C.5 Final Parity Validation — 2026-10-13

Starting state, evidence and scope

Verified faithful-astro-migration at a699d467f19fafbfdda5fce1ce6226baa6e5fc3c, with zero staged paths, 75 modified tracked files, two deleted Markdown records replaced by MDX, and 71 untracked files. Cumulative Phase 6C–6C.4 work was preserved. No handoff update, staging, commit, push, deployment or activation occurred. The latest Phase 6C.4 offline report passed an explicit read-only consistency check before any final corrections.

The final comparison derives all 74 articles and 19 translation relationships from the content collection/shared publication helpers. It reuses the selected October 11/13 body observations and October 12 metadata evidence; there were no new public content requests or unrestricted crawl. Cache-qualified public parity is not independent origin freshness or browser acceptance. The Halloween independent-reader limitation remains explicit. Historical diagnostic and implementation evidence is unchanged.

Complete route-by-route classifications, source provenance, counts and review requirements are in phase-6c5-final-parity-evidence-2026-10-13.json and phase-6c5-final-library-acceptance-2026-10-13.md. Final primary classifications: 10 parity confirmed, 58 parity with accepted intentional deviations, one minor discrepancy remaining, five human review required, zero material discrepancies remaining, zero insufficient-verification records against the selected dated evidence. Every source remains cache-qualified. These are not 74 professional editorial approvals.

Bounded corrections discovered during final inspection

No substantive wording, clinical guidance, frontmatter, dates, alt descriptions, footer relationships, publication policy or locale-navigation rules changed.

• English and Spanish autism-evaluation-what-to-expect.mdx: restored the three-column, three-row screening/evaluation/diagnosis table. Its wording and CDC link had survived as flattened paragraphs.
• English play-leisure-skills.mdx: moved the existing closing consultation CTA outside the last FAQ into its source-supported position after the accordion. The four FAQ answers now match the public FAQ/schema boundary.
• English aba-toilet-training-child-autism.mdx: separated ten inline H3 labels from adjacent list prose; one narrowly scoped rule in src/styles/blog.css retains inline presentation.
• English and Spanish social-pragmatic-communication-autism.mdx: separated the opening H2 from the following quoted paragraph without changing its words.
• reinforcement-replacement-behavior_ar.svg: wrapped the existing Path A subtitle so it fits the colored panel.
• reduce-environmental-distractions_ar.svg: raised the overlay by 10 pixels after raster inspection exposed remnants of the original English title.
• tools/library.test.mjs: added meaningful generated-heading/list coverage and extended table/FAQ-boundary checks. Library tests increase from 44 to 45.

All three Arabic SVGs were rasterized and inspected. The final previews show no exposed English labels or clipped Arabic text. Temporary inspection copies used installed DejaVu fonts and losslessly decoded PNG backing because the available librsvg did not display embedded WebP directly. Production SVG artwork remains source-backed WebP. Browser font fallback, mobile scrolling, keyboard behavior, fluent Arabic and screen-reader acceptance are still unverified.

Final technical results

• Library/search inventory: 55 English / 12 Spanish / seven Arabic, 74 total.
• 121 HTML routes and unique canonical targets, nine author archives, nine unchanged repository redirects.
• Indexing-enabled output: 107 sitemap URLs, 174 hreflang links on 53 routes.
• Final normal staging: 121 noindex,nofollow pages, empty sitemap, no hreflang.
• 72 BlogPosting entities, with the two syndicated exclusions preserved; 182 visible/schema-aligned FAQ answers on 30 articles; all 74 featured images have their previously reviewed alternatives; 73 supported modification dates, with the new Arabic guide's date intentionally absent.
• All 74 original publication dates agree with selected source calendar dates. Ordering remains publication-date descending then normalized route; no new date or eligibility flag was introduced to force counts.
• Both English page-6 routes have the same five source-supported final records, correct previous page, current-page state and no page 7. Spanish remains 10/2 and Arabic seven on one page. Author noindex/sitemap/hreflang rules remain.
• All 74 rendered footers match the final Phase 6C.4 relationships and titles after insignificant apostrophe normalization. Its 37 corrected records, all contextual repairs, four internal fragments and static image links remain.

Validation ran sequentially with TMPDIR=/tmp: Astro check 91 files and zero diagnostics; Markdown 20, publication 33, SEO 35, Library 45, routes 10 passing. Normal and indexing-enabled builds passed. Link audit: zero broken links; image audit: zero missing mapped images; blog audit: zero failures; git diff --check passed. Relevant checks were repeated after the last SVG correction. Temporary preview module/path/font failures were confined to inspection tooling; no application workaround or dependency was introduced. Remote Playwright again returned Transport closed; no browser, touch or screen-reader pass is claimed. A redundant route recheck from the repository root failed because package.json lives in www; the same read-only command passed from www, without source changes. Final comparison also confirms that all 74 visible article word/punctuation sequences remain unchanged in this phase.

Final schema-2 offline evidence: route-reconciliation-2026-10-13-offline-06-21-20-316Z.json, source fingerprint f11726b057b1d2f0a59ee1b952d847712caab05cf2f1539b36e80442372f2b00. It reuses 70 production requests, retains 133 dispositions, and passes the explicit read-only --check --evidence command. The intermediate route-reconciliation-2026-10-13-offline-06-16-06-857Z.json predates the final mask correction: retain locally but exclude from checkpoint. The inherited 102 production sitemap observations are not the new 107-URL local sitemap.

Remaining human and production gates

The 19 translation pairs comprise 17 substantively aligned comparisons, one technically reconciled Arabic replacement awaiting semantic/clinical acceptance, and one minor Spanish localization gap. Public Spanish reinforcement retains an English Tip paragraph; it is also present locally and needs a bounded fluent translation. The new Arabic guide and both self-advocacy additions remain ahead of their public localized sources. All revised Spanish/Arabic wording, alternatives and diagrams require fluent review.

Five primary human-review rows are the new Arabic guide, both localized self-advocacy additions, the summer-routine eligibility disagreement and the hours article's /lp/early-intervention versus provisional /client-consultation ownership gate. The summer article's local 2–17/2–8 ranges were not silently changed to different public age statements; AIA must resolve program scope against general ABA eligibility of 18 months through eight years. School access, Preparatory Academy eligibility/staffing, behavior intervention/safety and author claims still require professional/organizational review. Scottsdale reference reachability remains unverified after prior 429s.

Desktop/mobile keyboard and no-JavaScript acceptance, real screen-reader testing, fluent Arabic diagram review, Phase 9 landing-page ownership, forms/privacy and analytics/consent gates, author SEO decisions, and Contabo HTTPS/slashless/query/ redirect/404 verification remain separate. Repository redirects are not deployed.

Recommendation: Technically ready with documented nontechnical release gates. The final report contains a reviewer/date/status checklist. The explicit proposed file inventory and exclusions are in phase-6c5-checkpoint-manifest-2026-10-13.md. This recommendation does not accept Phase 6C on the user's behalf. Wait for user review and a separate checkpoint instruction before updating the living handoff or staging any path.

Phase 7 — Multilingual reconciliation — 2026-10-14

Implemented locally from signed Phase 6C checkpoint b5bc95bc2b8e36c58e8b4d8ab4b11391374a7883; technically ready with documented human-review gates, not accepted, staged or committed. The ratified sequence remains Phase 7 multilingual, Phase 8 visual/accessibility, Phase 9 human decisions, Phase 10 final QA/cutover. The living handoff is unchanged.

The complete Phase 7 report contains all 30 non-Library page records, metadata/translation/eligibility matrices, source comparisons, exact changes, validation and review requirements. Public evidence records 21 bounded read-only GETs on October 13. Responses are cache-qualified HubSpot prerenders; normal certificate validation failed and the disclosed public-only retrieval fallback bypassed TLS verification. Neither source transport nor cached content is represented as independently verified current-origin freshness.

• Recovered the complete Spanish privacy policy at /es/privacy-policy, with its February 19, 2025 revision date and ten source sections. Generated text exactly matches the captured body after whitespace/contact decoding. Localized SEO title/description, semantic heading repair and existing contact obfuscation are intentional implementation differences. English policy unchanged; all HIPAA/COPPA/security/retention/analytics promises require privacy/legal approval.
• Explicit page locale now drives Spanish form labels, options, instructions, disabled notices and Contact map alternatives/zoom labels. Empty POST actions, disabled controls and provider behavior remain. This does not prove complete Enter/no-JavaScript isolation or activate a backend.
• Localized Spanish/Arabic author archive labels and isolated Arabic BCBA/LBA text. Author identities/biographies/graph and SEO remain unchanged. Arabic physician-like biography wording versus English “clinician” is a specific organizational/fluent-language review issue, not a verified qualification.
• Translated the complete Spanish reinforcement tip, preserving its examples, frontmatter and surrounding article. This supersedes the implementation discrepancy recorded in Phase 6C.5; historical evidence remains intact and fluent-Spanish/clinical acceptance remains pending.
• Created the Phase 8-supporting verification plan and Phase 9 decision register, P9-01 through P9-10 all Pending decision. Hosted preview requires separately implemented/tested API isolation because noindex and empty API configuration do not prevent current production-counter requests. No hosting or integration was changed. README now accurately documents Node >=22.12.0 and Nix Node 24; dependencies unchanged.

Validation: Astro check 92 files, zero diagnostics; Markdown 20, publication 33, SEO 35, Library 49, routes 10 passing, sequentially with TMPDIR=/tmp. Both build modes pass. Link/image/blog audits report zero failures. Stale test expectations for translation counts and English form notices were corrected for the new eligible privacy pair and locale-aware text; no publication policy changed.

Actual indexing-enabled output: 122 HTML routes / 122 unique canonicals, 108 sitemap URLs, 180 hreflang links across 55 routes. The one Spanish privacy route and reciprocal EN/ES/x-default account for all increases. Library remains 74 records (55/12/7), nine author archives, nine redirect definitions and search 55/12/7; both English page-6 routes retain five cards. Final normal staging build has 122 noindex,nofollow pages, empty sitemap and zero hreflang.

New schema-2 offline evidence reuses the explicit final Phase 6C artifact's 70 historical production requests, with 133 dispositions and a source-matching read-only check. No new route crawl, historical report overwrite or redirect activation. Git diff whitespace check passes. Playwright opened about:blank then lost transport on the local-site attempt; no actual site browser, keyboard, mobile, no-JS or screen-reader acceptance is claimed. Phase 8 reviewers must complete the supplied checklist.

Clinical/organizational, fluent Spanish/Arabic, privacy/legal, diagrams, accessibility, landing-page/portal/form/API, analytics/consent, author SEO, hosting/rollback and launch approval gates all remain explicit. Stop here for Phase 7 review; no Phase 8 implementation or production activation authorized.

Phase 7 checkpoint-preparation clarification — 2026-10-14

Phase 7 is technically accepted for user-controlled checkpoint preparation; production and human acceptance remain separately gated. The living handoff now advances to Phase 7 and identifies Phase 8 Visual and Accessibility Acceptance as next. The future signed SHA is not known until the user commits.

Recomputed HEAD and working-tree manifests confirm non-Library counts 20 EN / 8 ES / 1 AR draft → 20 EN / 9 ES / 1 AR draft, eligible 28 → 29, EN–ES pairs 8 → 9. The final 30-record matrix excludes all three Library-root records. Including all Library roots gives 21/9/2 → 21/10/2, eligible 31 → 32, pairs 9 → 10. The proposed 20/9/1 → 20/10/1 expectation mixes populations by including only the Spanish Library root. No publication change was made to force it.

Spanish privacy parity is only against the saved cache-qualified response: standard TLS validation failed and fallback retrieval disabled certificate verification. This does not prove authenticated origin fidelity. A trusted-source comparison is mandatory before production, alongside fluent Spanish and privacy/legal approval of both policies. No trusted replacement was available for this checkpoint; P9-07 explicitly carries the unresolved gate. No new public retrieval, policy rewrite or evidence overwrite was performed.

See checkpoint manifest for the final exact-path inventory, validation results, exclusions and host-terminal procedure. All ten Phase 9 decisions remain pending.