Prototype Design QA v7

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Life in Days v7 — independent design and interaction QA

Date: 2026-08-14

Version: v7 PVA-002 Calendar Contract Completion

Branch: prototype/calendar-ui-v7-calendar-contract

Independent QA agent: /root/v7_independent_qa

Final candidate hashes:

• index-v7.html: 03cdafe8c3499ed496eb4cf6f353b1be8f64794b2e270c23775be8fc02e55841
• app-v7.js: 90f2d2b847a7534708b0b43aa4c09c69d31077b2aa954548c54a5bc57917c2dc
• styles-v7.css: 0fe7faec523f1cb80de69db21918b87f8485f907dfb108ec8a14a966d3fe6da3

Verdict: PASS — may be frozen

Disposition

Severity	Open findings
Critical	0
High	0
Medium	0
Low	0

The independent run was restarted after implementation changes and passed on the exact hashes above. A separate adversarial static review also reached a clean disposition before final QA. Candidate repairs remained within v7; no partially reviewed version was released.

Acceptance results

Area	Result and evidence
Syntax and diff integrity	PASS — npm run check:v7, JavaScript syntax, and git diff --check.
Month/year chooser	PASS — exactly 12 Jan–Dec buttons, viewed/current semantics, 44 × 44 px year controls, focus trap/return, draft-year cancellation, immediate commit, and safe four-digit edge states.
Month navigation	PASS — July empty month, September future browse, Today return, safe URL, generic title, and private-safe live announcements.
History and focus	PASS — Back restores month and roving focus; direct deep-link close canonicalizes safely; closing detail does not reopen it; full-day return and switched-selection focus return are coherent.
Calendar state language	PASS — Today dotted, selected solid, and keyboard focus dashed layers remain independent and outside image pixels.
C-01 image-only cells	PASS — real-photo/artwork cells contain only image plus date; no source, AI, attention, title, caption, count, tag, or watermark overlay.
Progressive disclosure	PASS — days 13, 11, 6, and 4 expose exact source/AI/attention/failure only in safe accessible names and the external Museum Margin.
Authentic-cover precedence	PASS — 13 August uses its selected Telegram photo even though generated artwork also exists.
Paper and empty states	PASS — 8 August retains the council-approved paper treatment; at compact width it becomes date plus a quiet paper rule; 3 August creates nothing; July uses a quiet empty-month note.
Media failure	PASS — 4 August uses a neutral no-image cell and external Calendar Cover unavailable, authentic-journal availability, and simulated retry disclosure.
Keyboard	PASS — one roving tab stop; Arrow, Home/End, Page Up/Down cross months; Enter/Space, Escape, chooser trap, drawer trap, and focus restoration work.
Responsive	PASS — 1280, 960, 700, 390, and 320 px; seven columns; 3 px compact gaps; 62/54.6/48 px compact cell heights; no horizontal page overflow.
Compact chooser	PASS — 3 × 4 grid, 52 px month buttons, 44 px year controls, no clipping or private previews.
Drawer stacking	PASS — 960 px scrim/drawer and compact full-width sheet; selection layer is above compact navigation and background is inert.
Theme and motion	PASS — light/dark states and reduced-motion equivalence. 200%/400% were observations only under the council's v35 conformance boundary.
Accessible naming	PASS — counts, cover type, attention, Today, and Selected are available without private titles, captions, summaries, tags, journal text, or image descriptions.
Frozen v6 Search	PASS — legacy q removed; term never enters URL/title; Back preserves live-memory term; reload clears it; no suggestion/recent-memory regression.
Browser console	PASS — no warnings or errors across final test tabs.
Evidence boundary	PASS — static fictional-data frontend evidence only; no backend, security, integration, accessibility-conformance, deployment, or production claim.

Current-run visual evidence

• docs/prototypes/v7/calendar-landing-light-1280-v7.png — light default Calendar with image-only cover cells and external Today perimeter.
• docs/prototypes/v7/calendar-selected-today-dark-1280-v7.png — Today + selected authentic cover and external Museum Margin.
• docs/prototypes/v7/calendar-selected-artwork-dark-1280-v7.png — artwork-only day with provenance outside image pixels.
• docs/prototypes/v7/month-chooser-dark-1280-v7.png — wide twelve-button chooser.
• docs/prototypes/v7/calendar-selected-drawer-dark-960-v7.png — responsive selected-day drawer.
• docs/prototypes/v7/calendar-landing-dark-390-v7.png — compact seven-column Calendar.
• docs/prototypes/v7/month-chooser-dark-320-v7.png — 320 px chooser sheet.
• docs/prototypes/v7/calendar-empty-month-dark-320-v7.png — compact ordinary empty month.

Evidence boundary

This QA verifies the current static frontend candidate and local server behavior only. It does not verify persistence, authentication, server logs, cache headers, Telegram, VoiceNotes, AI providers, encryption, backup, recovery, Hetzner, Cloudflare, deployment, formal WCAG conformance, or production privacy controls.