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1. 2026-04-29Self-audit

   Two passes shipped today: design polish, then a Notion feedback list with explicit a11y wins.

   • Coral as inline body text on white is retired across the marketing surface in favor of plain ink (16:1+) or coral-background pills with dark text. About 100 sites swept. Contrast moves from "passing" to "comfortable" almost everywhere it had been tight.
   • Section gaps inside the Pulse app increased from 32 to 48 px, page wrappers loosened top and bottom, and home modules now sit 20 px apart instead of flush against each other. Targeted at the older end of the user base where less density measurably helps.
   • The horizontal scrollers on the Pulse home (news, recipes, topics, collections) had been silently breaking link clicks because a custom drag implementation was intercepting pointer events. Switched to Embla, which handles drag-vs-click correctly. WCAG 2.1.1 keyboard equivalence restored on carousel cards.
   • Accessibility text-size widget redesigned from a +/- button pair into a discrete-step draggable slider with five steps (small to extra-large). Keyboard accessible via arrow keys, respects prefers-reduced-motion, value readout announced. Direct improvement to WCAG 1.4.4 resize text affordance, which the previous control did not visually communicate.
   • Back-button on every detail page (news, articles, recipes) now returns to the page the user came from instead of the canonical listing. Reduces orientation cost (WCAG 3.2.3-adjacent), particularly for users with cognitive load constraints who lose the sense of where they are after multiple back presses.
   • Community avatars fall back to Google-style initial circles when no photo is on file. Avoids decorative-image-as-content traps (WCAG 1.1.1) and gives screen readers a meaningful aria-label (the person's name) instead of an empty img element.
   • Meal plan grocery list moved from inline expansion into a bottom drawer, so the page no longer reflows the rest of its content when the list opens. Helps focus management for keyboard and screen-reader users.
   • Three references to .png avatar images on the home page were 404ing while the files on disk are .webp. Fixed.
2. 2026-04-28Self-audit

   Marketing surface fully passes WCAG 2 AA color-contrast, automated coverage extended.

   • Cleared the 16 routes that the previous pass had been tracking as known-failure. The cause was two recurring patterns: a coral accent at 2.5:1 on white where it was being used for inline body text, and a faded gray for captions at 2.6:1 on white.
   • Coral is now split into three context-appropriate variants: a bright accent for hero decoration only, a darker variant for inline coral text on light backgrounds (5.1:1 on white), and a lighter variant for coral text on dark hero sections (8.1:1 on the inverse surface).
   • Inline links inside long-form prose (legal pages, blog detail, insights articles) now underline by default, so the link is recognizable without relying on color alone.
   • Several localized marketing routes had been gated behind login by accident, so axe-core was not exercising them. Those pages are public again, axe coverage now includes them, and they pass on the same criteria as the rest of the surface.
3. 2026-04-27Self-audit

   First end-to-end accessibility pass on the marketing surface.

   • Eight contrast violations on uppercase eyebrow chips and proof-stat rows, fixed.
   • Two glass-card backdrops produced ambiguous contrast, switched to solid backgrounds.
   • No alt-text gaps; no keyboard traps; semantic heading hierarchy verified.
   • axe-core wired into Playwright with critical and serious as the merge-blocking threshold.

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