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fix: adaptive-header a11y — single h1, breadcrumb nav, heading order (#1994)#2199

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Summary

Fixes the adaptive-header accessibility issues reported in #1994 (keyboard/AT sweep):

  1. Duplicate h1 — the page title is rendered twice (desktop AdaptiveHeaderRoot + the mobile AdaptiveHeaderSlot mirror). The breakpoint-inactive copy is now aria-hidden (driven by useIsMobile), so exactly one h1 stays in the accessibility tree even where the responsive display:none isn't applied.
  2. Heading order
    • Chat: the role="log" message-history label was an sr-only h2 that preceded the page h1 (e.g. the welcome heading). It's now a plain sr-only <span> still referenced via aria-labelledby, so it leaves the heading outline.
    • EmptyState now renders its title as an h2 by default (was h3), so a list empty state directly under a page h1 no longer skips h1h3. The level is overridable via a new headingLevel prop.
  3. Breadcrumb — the agent detail trail was a single h1 of links, with the parent "Agents" crumb auto-tagged aria-current="page" by TanStack's <Link>. It's now a semantic nav[aria-label] > ol; the parent link uses activeOptions={{ exact: true }} to drop the stale aria-current, and only the leaf (the page's single h1) carries aria-current="page".

Tests

  • packages/ui empty-state: default h2 + headingLevel override.
  • platform adaptive-header: only one h1 exposed when the title is mirrored into the slot.
  • Existing chat / data-table / conversations empty-state suites pass unchanged.
  • tsc --noEmit green for both @tale/platform and @tale/ui; oxlint clean.

Closes #1994

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Several adaptive-header accessibility fixes from a keyboard/AT sweep:

- Duplicate page-title h1: the title is rendered twice (desktop root +
  mobile slot mirror). Mark the breakpoint-inactive copy aria-hidden so
  exactly one h1 stays in the accessibility tree even where the responsive
  display:none isn't applied.
- Heading order: the chat message-history label was an sr-only h2 that
  preceded the page h1 — make it a plain sr-only span still referenced via
  aria-labelledby, so it leaves the heading outline. EmptyState now renders
  its title as an h2 by default (was h3), so a list empty state under a page
  h1 no longer skips h1->h3; level stays overridable via headingLevel.
- Breadcrumb: the agent detail trail was a single h1 of links with the
  parent crumb auto-tagged aria-current=page by TanStack's Link. Render it
  as nav[aria-label] > ol; the parent uses activeOptions={{ exact: true }}
  to drop the stale aria-current, and only the leaf (the page's single h1)
  carries aria-current=page.

Closes #1994
The previous pass flipped EmptyState's default heading level to h2 to stop the
documents empty state skipping h1->h3. But that regressed every table that
lives under a settings section h2 (e.g. Teams): its 'No <x> yet' title became a
second h2, so the settings-depth e2e (getByRole('heading', { name: 'Teams',
level: 2 })) hit a strict-mode violation matching both the section heading and
the empty-state title.

Restore EmptyState's default to h3 (correct for the common in-section / in-dialog
case) and thread an explicit headingLevel through DataTable -> DataTableEmptyState.
Only the documents table — which sits directly under the page h1 'Knowledge'
with no intervening section heading — opts into headingLevel=2, fixing the
h1->h3 skip without making any in-section empty state a duplicate h2.
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Desk review — #1994 adaptive-header a11y

Verdict: NOT READY — CHANGES REQUIRED. The PR correctly fixes the duplicate-h1 and the breadcrumb, but it does not fix the reported chat heading-order bug (it changed the wrong element), and it fixes the h1→h3 skip for only one of several affected tables.

Evidence

  • CI: green — 48 checks pass, 3 conditional skips (Trivy, fork-PR jobs); zero failing or pending.
  • Tests (run locally on this branch):
    • bunx vitest run src/components/feedback/empty-state.test.tsx (packages/ui) → 11 passed
    • bunx vitest run app/components/layout/adaptive-header.test.tsx (platform) → 3 passed
    • bunx vitest run app/components/ui/data-table/ app/features/documents/179 passed (1 unrelated Storybook-story iframe load error from the sandbox browser runner; the story file is untouched by this PR and CI's Storybook/UI checks are green)
    • bunx vitest run app/features/chat/731 passed

What's correct (credit)

  • Duplicate h1 (part 1): aria-hidden toggled by useIsMobile on AdaptiveHeaderRoot/AdaptiveHeaderSlot correctly leaves exactly one h1 exposed on desktop and on mobile. Works for both AdaptiveHeaderTitle and the standalone={false} breadcrumb.
  • Breadcrumb (part 3): nav[aria-label] > ol > li is well-formed; activeOptions={{ exact: true }} is the correct TanStack Router API to stop the parent /agents <Link> auto-tagging aria-current="page"; the leaf <Heading level={1} aria-current="page"> forwards the attribute correctly; aria.breadcrumb is present in en/de/fr with real translations.
  • Documents empty state: headingLevel: 2 reaches the Heading end-to-end; the h1→h3 skip is fixed for that one table.

Blocking findings

1. (BLOCKING) The reported chat h2 'Chat' before the h1 is still present — the fix changed the wrong element.
The issue's chat repro is chat_headings=[h2 'Chat', h1 'How can I assist you?']. That h2 'Chat' is chat-interface.tsx:1165<h2 id={chatRegionLabelId} className="sr-only">{t('aria.chatRegion')}</h2>, where chat.aria.chatRegion = "Chat" in en/de/fr. It is rendered unconditionally as an early child of the chat region, before the welcome <h1> (welcome-view.tsx:46). chat-interface.tsx is not touched by this PR (git diff is empty for it).
What the PR changed instead is chat-messages.tsx — the aria.messageHistory label (text "Message history", not "Chat") from h2span. Those labels live inside ChatMessages, which is not rendered on the welcome screen (showMessages is false), so the change has no effect on the reported repro.
Fix: Convert the <h2 id={chatRegionLabelId}> region label in chat-interface.tsx:1165 to a non-heading element (e.g. a <span className="sr-only"> still referenced via aria-labelledby), mirroring the pattern already applied in chat-messages.tsx. Also apply the same to the remaining unchanged sr-only <h2 id={messageHistoryLabelId}> in shared-chat-view.tsx:225.

2. (BLOCKING) The h1→h3 heading skip is fixed only for documents; other empty-state tables under a page h1 still skip.
EmptyState's default headingLevel is 3 (note: the PR description claims the default was changed to h2 — it was not; only the documents call site passes 2). Confirmed pages that render a DataTable empty state directly under the page h1 with no intervening section h2, do not pass headingLevel, and therefore still render h3h1→h3 skip when empty:

  • Agents list /agents/all — page h1 via AdaptiveHeaderTitle (agents.tsx:104); empty state at agents-table.tsx:322-326 (no headingLevel). (This is the same agents page the issue examined.)
  • Projects /projects — page h1 at projects/index.tsx:40; empty state at projects-table.tsx:230-234 (no headingLevel).
  • Same pattern flagged for the Knowledge-section tables: knowledge-entries-table.tsx, products-table.tsx, vendors-table.tsx, websites-table.tsx, customers-table.tsx.
    Fix: Either pass headingLevel={2} at each call site that sits directly under a page h1 with no section heading (as done for documents), or make the systemic fix the PR description already claims and verify each remaining site does not then skip. Confirm each affected table’s empty AND no-search-results branches.

Non-blocking (should address)

  1. No test for the breadcrumb refactor (agents/$agentId.tsx): nothing asserts nav[aria-label], aria-current="page" on the leaf only, or that the parent link is NOT aria-current. Add coverage so this a11y contract can't silently regress.
  2. adaptive-header.test.tsx only exercises the desktop branch (isMobile=false); the mobile path (aria-hidden flipping) is untested. Add a case with useIsMobile mocked to true.
  3. Minor robustness: useIsMobile's useState initializer reads matchMedia at client init while SSR returns false, so on a mobile viewport the aria-hidden attribute can mismatch on hydration. And aria-hidden on a container with focusable children is only safe because the inactive copy is also display:none (root hidden md:flex; slot's parent <header className="md:hidden">) — fine in steady state, but the safety depends on that CSS.
  4. PR description inaccuracy: it states EmptyState now defaults to h2; the code keeps the default at 3. Align the description with the implementation (ties into finding 2).

NOT READY — CHANGES REQUIRED:

  1. Fix the chat region heading: convert chat-interface.tsx:1165 <h2 id={chatRegionLabelId}> (text "Chat") to a non-heading sr-only element (keep it as the region's accessible name via aria-labelledby), and do the same for the remaining sr-only <h2 id={messageHistoryLabelId}> in shared-chat-view.tsx:225, so no h2 precedes the page h1 on /chat.
  2. Resolve the h1→h3 skip on the other empty-state tables under a page h1 (at minimum agents-table.tsx and projects-table.tsx; also the Knowledge-section tables knowledge-entries, products, vendors, websites, customers) — pass headingLevel={2} where the table sits directly under the page h1 with no section h2.

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