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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions .Jules/palette.md
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## 2025-07-31 - Explicit Game Controls
**Learning:** When building interactive HTML5 widgets or games with custom keyboard event bindings, users may not intuitively know which keys to press, leading to confusion.
**Action:** Always provide explicit, visible instructional text for custom keyboard controls so users know the required inputs.
## 2024-05-24 - Dynamic Score Announcement
**Learning:** Dynamic text changes like game scores are invisible to screen readers unless explicitly marked. Also, static text should not be inside an aria-live region to avoid repetition.
**Action:** Extract static text and add aria-live="polite" to the container of the dynamic value.
11 changes: 7 additions & 4 deletions src/views/mario-game.njk
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background: #2ecc71;
}

#score {
#score-container {
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
left: 10px;
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<body>

<div id="game">
<div id="score">Score: 0</div>
<div id="score-container">
<span>Score: </span>
<span id="score-value" aria-live="polite">0</span>
</div>
<div id="instructions">Press Space or ↑ to jump!</div>
<div id="mario"></div>
<div class="ground"></div>
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<script>
const mario = document.getElementById("mario");
const game = document.getElementById("game");
const scoreText = document.getElementById("score");
const scoreText = document.getElementById("score-value");

let jumping = false;
let score = 0;
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clearInterval(move);
goomba.remove();
score++;
scoreText.innerText = "Score: " + score;
scoreText.innerText = score;
} else {
position -= 6;
goomba.style.left = position + "px";
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