Prototype Design QA v6

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Life in Days v6 — independent design and interaction QA

Date: 2026-08-14

Version: v6 PVA-001 Private Search State

Branch: prototype/calendar-ui-v6-private-search

Independent QA agent: /root/v6_independent_qa

Verdict: PASS — may be frozen

Disposition

Severity	Open findings
Critical	0
High	0
Medium	0
Low	0

The first QA pass found one High accessibility defect: pressing Enter from the labelled Search input did not submit. The candidate was not version-incremented. The implementation added one shared, keyboard-safe submission path used by both Enter and form submission; the fresh QA agent reran the affected and full matrices and recorded a pass.

Acceptance results

Area	Result and evidence
Syntax and diff integrity	PASS — npm run check:v6, JavaScript syntax, and git diff --check.
Fresh Search	PASS — no suggestions, recent memories, results, or generated answer.
Button and Enter	PASS — both submit; the result heading receives focus.
No result	PASS — the term remains only in the input and is not echoed into error copy.
Clear	PASS — clears the live value and returns focus to the input.
URL/title privacy	PASS through submit, result opening, Back, Forward, legacy URL, and reload. Title remains Life in Days; no q survives.
History state	PASS — only known navigation fields are written; incoming legacy query state is replaced with a safe prototype state.
Persistent browser storage	PASS — Search is absent from local and session storage; only inherited theme/rail preferences use local storage.
Back/Forward	PASS — the term and results remain available from live memory while the same page instance remains open.
Reload	PASS — term and results clear intentionally.
Legacy q	PASS — ignored and stripped without populating Search.
Desktop 1280 px	PASS — no horizontal overflow and form/scope/results remain readable.
Compact 390 px	PASS — stacked form, readable scope, four-item compact navigation, and no overflow.
Narrow 320 px	PASS — controls and results fit without page-level overflow.
Accessibility semantics	PASS — visible label, Search landmark, polite status region, focusable result heading, skip link, and autocomplete/autocapitalization/spellcheck disabled.
Browser console	PASS — no warnings or errors.
Inherited Calendar	PASS — landing, selected Museum Margin, and full Journal Day.
Inherited Almanac	PASS — six synthetic chapters and collapsible index.
Inherited Settings	PASS — routes and truthful prototype disclosures remain present.
Boundary	PASS — fictional frontend evidence; no integration, security, logging, encryption, persistence, recovery, or deployment claim.

Current-run evidence

• docs/prototypes/v6/search-landing-desktop-v6.jpg — 1280 × 720 initial viewport.
• docs/prototypes/v6/search-landing-desktop-full-v6.jpg — complete initial-state explanation.
• docs/prototypes/v6/search-results-rain-desktop-v6.jpg — literal rain results with no query in the visible address state.
• docs/prototypes/v6/search-landing-mobile-390-v6.jpg — compact initial viewport.
• docs/prototypes/v6/search-landing-mobile-390-full-v6.jpg — full compact state.

Evidence boundary

This QA verifies the current static frontend candidate and local server behavior only. It does not verify deployed reverse-proxy/CDN access logs, telemetry allowlists, server-side Search, authentication, encryption, storage, Telegram, VoiceNotes, AI providers, backup, recovery, Hetzner, Cloudflare, or production privacy controls.