docs: close plan 007 and open 008 on the last open audit

All six phases of 007 shipped. The plan moves to completed/ with a recap
rather than a rewrite: its seven "where the plan was wrong" lists are
seventy-nine entries and about a third of them are the audit being wrong,
which is the material 008 is planned against.

008 is a11y.md, the only audit with open items and the least verified
material in the repo. A grep pass closes at least five findings the
coverage map still shows open, including a11y.7, which the map assigns to
phase 6 and which phase 1 fixed. The triage in the plan is recorded as
hypotheses for that reason.
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# 008 — The last audit, and the one binding that outlived six phases
**Status:** active
**Branch:** main
**Created:** 2026-08-12
**Follows:** 007-ui-reconciliation
**Source:** `.planning/audits/2026-08-11-ui/a11y.md` (34 findings), plus
one item inherited through all six phases of 007.
## Problem
Three of the four audits from 2026-08-11 are closed. `a11y.md` is not,
and it is **the least verified material in the repo** — 007's own notes
say so twice, and every pass that touched it found the audit wrong about
something.
Two things follow from that, and they are the shape of this plan.
**The coverage map lies, and it lies in the direction of more work than
exists.** 007's map assigns `a11y.7` (top-results cards are click-only
divs) to Phase 6; the code has carried `role="button" tabindex="0"` and
an Enter/Space handler since Phase 1. It is not alone. A grep pass over
all 34 findings against the current tree closes at least five the map
still shows open, and three of those (`17`, `19`, `27`) were closed by
phases that were not about them.
**And what survives is not evenly distributed.** Of the ~13 that look
open, three are genuine loss of function and the rest are Minor or
Polish. One of the three — `15` — is a hard WCAG conformance failure
that has been sitting under a "Major" heading being read as a nice-to-
have.
Cutting across both: **two items in this audit were never measured at
all.** Colour contrast is flagged borderline (`--yj-text-tertiary` on
`--yj-bg-surface` ≈ 4.1:1 against 11 px text) with "that needs a real
measurement" written next to it, and 007 parked it under "deliberately
not planned — worth measuring before planning". The mouse-only resize
handles (`28`) were dropped as "cosmetic preference, no function lost",
which is a judgement made by reading. Both are claims with no number
behind them, which by this repo's own standard is not a finding yet.
Separately, and not from any audit: **`tracklist.delete`**. Advertised
in Settings as configurable, bound to nothing, and carried through six
phases because it needs an operation that does not exist.
## The triage, as of 2026-08-12
Grep-level against `1e4a4e6`. **Every row is a hypothesis** — this is
where the audit's claims are, not where the code is. Nothing here is
fixed until it has been reproduced in the running app.
**Closed** (verified present in code): `1`, `2`, `3`, `4`, `5`, `6`,
`7`, `8`, `12`, `13`, `16`, `17`, `19`, `27`, `33`.
**Closed by argument rather than by code**, to confirm by reading:
`20` (the type-scale/`_itemSize` coupling is now documented in
`tokens.css.ts`, which is what the finding asked for), `31` (one of
`cover-grid`'s two `<img>`s has an `alt`; the finding named one).
**Open:**
| # | Level | What the grep says |
|---|---|---|
| `15` | Major | `now-playing` is not among the four files carrying `prefers-reduced-motion`. WCAG 2.2.2: moving content over 5 s with no pause mechanism. |
| `14` | Major | `combobox.ts` has no `aria-controls`, no `aria-activedescendant`, no option ids. |
| `11` | Major | No `altKey` handler in `queue-panel`. The *other* half of this finding — "no keyboard path to add a track to the queue or a playlist" — was closed by Phase 5's `MenuKeyboard`. |
| `21` | Minor | `body { height: 100vh; overflow: hidden }` unchanged. WCAG 1.4.10. |
| `22` | Minor | `queue-panel` gained `aria-current`; `track-list` did not, and neither has a non-colour marker. |
| `24` | Minor | No `title` on the truncating element in `track-info`, `playlist-view`, `queue-panel` or `track-list`. |
| `25` | Minor | `<wa-progress-bar value=…>` with no label, verbatim as filed. |
| `28` | dropped | Four `@mousedown` `<div>`s with no `role="separator"`. Never measured. |
| `29` | Polish | `<h3 class="subtitle">` for type size. |
| `30` | Polish | No skip link anywhere. |
| `32` | Polish | `title="Remove from queue"`, not identifying the track. |
| `34` | Polish | The 10 px sort arrow, unchanged. |
| — | — | Colour contrast, never measured. |
## Ordering principle
By **what is lost**, then by containment.
Phase 1 first because it is the only phase where something a user needs
is unavailable: a marquee they cannot stop, a combobox that announces
nothing while they arrow through it, and a queue whose order cannot be
changed without a mouse.
Phase 2 second because both of its items are *questions*, and the
answers change what Phase 3 contains. If the contrast measurement comes
back below 4.5:1 it is a Phase 1 item wearing a Polish hat; if the
resize handles turn out to lose function rather than preference, `28`
stops being dropped.
Phase 3 is the tail, batched, because each item is a line and the cost
is in the verification rather than the change.
Phase 4 is `tracklist.delete`, last, because it is the only work in this
plan that can destroy a user's data and it should not share a pass with
anything.
---
## Phase 1 — The three that lose function
### `15` — the marquee cannot be stopped
`now-playing`'s title and artist scroll continuously while a track plays
when `scrollMode === 'always'` (persisted in localStorage), re-armed in
a loop by `onScrollCycleEnd`.
**Ships:** a `prefers-reduced-motion: reduce` guard that treats `always`
as `never` and disables the transition. The setting stays; the query
overrides it, which is the right precedence — a stated OS-level
accessibility preference outranks an app default the user may never have
touched.
**Reproduce first:** the guard is two lines and will look like it
worked whether or not it did. Check under an emulated
`prefers-reduced-motion` in the running app, and check that the *hover*
scroll (`scrollMode === 'hover'`, the default) is also covered — the
finding names `always` and the mechanism is shared.
**Watch for:** `now-playing`'s geometry work in `updated()` keys on the
two scroll flags, because `.will-scroll .scroll-content` carries
`padding-right: 2em` and changing the class changes the distance the
marquee travels. A guard that suppresses the animation without telling
the geometry key will leave a stale measurement behind.
### `14` — the combobox announces nothing
`role="combobox" aria-expanded aria-autocomplete="list"` on the input
and `role="listbox"`/`role="option"` below it, with no `id` on the
listbox, no `aria-controls`, no `aria-activedescendant`, and no `id` on
the options. `aria-selected` is used to mean "highlighted".
**Ships:** ids on the listbox and each option, `aria-controls`,
`aria-activedescendant` tracking the highlight, and `aria-selected`
meaning *chosen*.
**Reproduce first:** the a11y snapshot could not see a dialog's name and
may not see this either — 007 lost twenty minutes to exactly that.
CDP's `Accessibility.getFullAXTree` reports the computed value and where
it came from; use it, not the snapshot.
### `11` — queue order cannot be changed without a mouse
Reordering is `draggable="true"` with the drop index computed from
cursor Y. There is no keyboard equivalent and no `aria-` substitute.
**Ships:** Alt+ArrowUp / Alt+ArrowDown moves the focused queue item, on
the roving tab stop `utils/roving-rows.ts` already gives that list, with
a live region announcing the new position.
**Watch for:** Alt+Arrow is unmodified-adjacent but not unmodified, so
`focusedControlOwnsKey` does not apply — this is a panel binding in
`backend/shortcuts/config.go`, registered the way `tracklist.*` is, not
a document listener. And the queue panel renders no list at all when
closed, so anything asserting on it has to open it first.
**This is the risky one.** It is a new interaction model, it touches the
backend shortcut table, and the drag path it parallels computes its drop
index geometrically. It lands last in the phase, alone.
### Verification
`make ui-test` per rule, and then **run the existing tests** — that is
what has caught every bad version of a new rule in 007, including twice
in the last pass. `make ui-visual` for `15` (it changes what renders).
An e2e case for `11`, because the queue panel's animated width means a
click issued while it moves lands on whatever slid under the pointer.
A manual pass per landing, with a screenshot read.
---
## Phase 2 — The two that were never measured
Neither is a fix. Both are a number, and the number decides whether
there is work.
**Colour contrast.** Measured against the rendered app, not against the
token file: the tokens are what a component *may* use, and what matters
is the pairs that actually appear. Sample the real computed colours at
the real sizes, report the ratios, and only then decide. The audit's own
number (≈ 4.1:1) is a hand calculation from two hex values and has the
status of a hypothesis.
**`a11y.28`, the resize handles.** Four of them: the sidebar, the queue
panel, the now-playing column, and the track-list column resizers.
"Cosmetic preference, no function lost" is the claim to test. The
track-list one is the suspicious member — a column narrowed to its floor
clips its label (007 phase 5 found "Durat…" at 800 px), so widening a
column may be the only way to read a value, which is function.
**Record both outcomes either way.** A measurement that closes a finding
is worth as much as one that opens it, and this plan's predecessor got
about a third of its value from findings that evaporated.
---
## Phase 3 — The tail
`21`, `22`, `24`, `25`, `29`, `30`, `32`, `34`, plus whatever Phase 2
promotes or closes. One landing, batched, each item confirmed against
the code before it is touched.
Two of them are not one-liners and should be treated as such:
- **`21`** (the shell is `100vh; overflow: hidden`) is a layout change
to the app frame, and 007 phase 5 already measured the frame's real
minimum at 800×600. Reflow at high zoom is the same question one
variable over. It may want its own landing.
- **`22`** asks for a non-colour marker on the playing row, which is a
visual change to the densest list in the app and moves a baseline.
---
## Phase 4 — `tracklist.delete`, and the operation behind it
### The decision
*(Decided 2026-08-12, before any code.)*
**"Remove from library" removes the database row and excludes the path
from future scans. It does not touch the file.**
The comment at `backend/shortcuts/config.go:36` states the fork exactly:
the row (which the next scan puts back unless the path is also excluded)
or the file (a delete-your-music button one keystroke from a focused
row). Three shapes were considered:
- **A — row + path exclusion.** Reversible, needs an exclusions table,
so a schema file *and* a migration.
- **B — delete the file**, to the platform trash. Real user intent for
an app with duplicate detection, genuinely destructive, and a new
cross-platform dependency.
- **C — ship the operation as a menu command only**, leave `Delete`
unbound.
**A, delivered as C**, and then the keystroke. Without the exclusion,
A is a button that undoes itself on the next scan, which is worse than
no button — so the exclusion is not an enhancement, it is what makes the
operation mean anything. `Delete` is bound only to *open the
confirmation*, never to perform the removal: that makes the keystroke a
request rather than an action, which is the only version defensible one
key from a focused row.
**B is not foreclosed and is not in this plan.** It deserves its own
argument.
### What ships
- An exclusions table, following the two-file schema discipline
(`sql/schemas/` for the target shape, `sql/migrations/` for the
existing install, column order matching, no index on a migrated
column in the schema file).
- `RemoveFromLibrary(filePaths)` — rows deleted, paths excluded, one
event carrying enough for the stores to patch rather than invalidate.
It is a *write*, so it goes through `ExecContext`, not the read pool.
- A context-menu command behind `confirmAction()`, with impact copy
naming the count and saying explicitly that files on disk are not
touched.
- `tracklist.delete` re-advertised, bound to opening that dialog.
- The scanner honouring the exclusion list, which is the half that makes
the rest true.
### Verification
A Go test that a removed path survives a rescan; an e2e case that the
row is gone, the dialog said so, and the file still exists. Both halves
matter — the second is the promise the copy makes.
---
## Deliberately not in this plan
- **Splitting `explore-view.ts`** (1 900 lines). The shelves are in it
because a separate component would need its own art fetching and
therefore its own cache, cap and probe, and `perf.M7` exists because
that view never unmounts. The reasoning holds; the size is the price.
- **A `make perf` before/after for Phase 6's shelves.** Both seeds get
their catalog from the artifact rather than from the seed tarball, so
a before and an after are not the same corpus unless the e2e staging
fixture is extended to bulk scale. Recorded as unmeasured in 007
rather than implied to be free.
- **The unowned badge's `+` glyph.** It becomes correct the day the
badge becomes a button. Changing it now touches four components'
visual baselines for a call better made then.
- **The albums shelf leading with one act.** Needs dump-side data to
express "these eight artists are one group and its solo members".
A plan, not a fix.
- **WebKit2GTK-specific behaviour** (page zoom in the Wails shell, how
Orca traverses the virtualizer's windowed DOM). Only answerable on the
real shell, and CI is the only place WebKit runs.
## First step
Phase 1, and within it `15` — reproduced under an emulated
`prefers-reduced-motion` **before** the guard is written, because a
two-line CSS change looks identical whether or not it worked, and this
plan's predecessor met that failure in seven different costumes.
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# 007 — UI reconciliation: lifecycle, truth, voice, scale, shape, and one thing that was never built
**Status:** active — Phases 1, 2 and 3 shipped, each with one or two
deliberate deferrals (see the "what actually shipped" sections below).
**Phase 4 is complete** after six passes; the sixth landed `m5`, `m4`
and `m2`, which was the whole remaining tail.
Phase 3 was the plan's own clean cut: stopping here leaves the data-loss
bug, the lying player and the silent failures all fixed.
**Branch:** —
**Status:** implemented — all six phases shipped.
**Branch:** main
**Created:** 2026-08-11
**Follows:** 006-orientation-fixes
**Followed by:** 008-the-last-audit
**Source:** `.planning/audits/2026-08-11-ui/``hands-on.md` (24
findings reproduced in the running app), `a11y.md` (34), `perf.md`
(30), `errors.md` (30).
## Recap
~118 findings, which were five problems each spread by copying. All six
phases shipped, over eleven passes, and three of the four source audits
are closed: `hands-on.md`, `perf.md` and `errors.md` have nothing open.
`a11y.md` does, and is plan 008.
- **Phase 1 — a cached view now has a lifecycle.** `viewActivated` /
`viewDeactivated`, the ambient shortcut scope the mechanism was built
for and had never had a caller, and keyboard reach for the sidebar,
the track rows, the card grids and the closed queue panel.
- **Phase 2 — the player reports its own position.** 1 Hz from the
backend, `PlaybackFailed` from both failure paths, auto-advance that
skips, and a bar that no longer counts itself 30 s adrift.
- **Phase 3 — one notification surface, four levels**, replacing 84
`catch` blocks that ended at `console.error` and two private toasts.
- **Phase 4 — works offline and at 50 000 tracks**, over six passes:
bundled icons, route splitting, the `TrackPlayCountChanged` split,
bounded caches, `utils/track-index.ts` (36 s → 68 ms), and the
virtualizer repaint rule.
- **Phase 5 — one app, not eleven pages**, over four passes: one
`<page-header>`, a measured window minimum, every dialog a named
`wa-dialog`, one menu keyboard model, the `?` overlay, and an album
page with a primary action that means the same thing in three
different ownership states.
- **Phase 6 — Explore opens with shelves**, plus the two inherited
one-liners: the badge that was an inert button, and the card grids
that moved to the end rather than by a row.
**What it is worth reading for**: the seven "where the plan was wrong"
lists below, seventy-nine entries across the passes. About a third are
the audit being wrong rather than the code, and they are the reason
plan 008 treats every remaining `a11y.md` claim as a hypothesis.
**Inherited, unfinished, and carried into 008**: `tracklist.delete`,
which survived all six phases because it needs a "remove from library"
operation that does not exist and a decision about what it removes.
## Problem
A full pass over the UI — the app driven by hand headless, plus three
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`config.toml` and DB rows — the same discipline `sql/schemas/` gets,
for the same reason.
See `.planning/plans/active/005-agent-development-harness.md`.
See `.planning/plans/completed/005-agent-development-harness.md`.
## Architecture