feat(canvas): screen reader live announcements for workspace status changes #172

core-fe · 2026-05-09T21:31:08Z

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Summary

Closes HIGH priority item from the canvas accessibility audit (2026-05-09). Screen reader users previously had no way to know when workspace status changed — the canvas updated visually but no announcement was made.

What changed

canvas/src/store/canvas.ts — add liveAnnouncement: string + setLiveAnnouncement to CanvasState.

canvas/src/store/canvas-events.ts — set liveAnnouncement in handleCanvasEvent for 6 key status transitions:

WORKSPACE_ONLINE → "Alpha is now online"
WORKSPACE_OFFLINE → "Beta is now offline"
WORKSPACE_PAUSED → "Gamma has been paused"
WORKSPACE_DEGRADED → "Delta is degraded"
WORKSPACE_PROVISIONING → "NewBot is provisioning"
WORKSPACE_REMOVED → "Gamma was removed"
WORKSPACE_PROVISION_FAILED → "Delta provisioning failed"

Names are looked up from store nodes so announcements are human-readable. TASK_UPDATED and AGENT_MESSAGE are intentionally excluded — they fire on every heartbeat and would overwhelm screen reader users.

canvas/src/components/Canvas.tsx — subscribe to liveAnnouncement; render a visually-hidden aria-live="polite" aria-atomic="true" region that speaks the announcement and clears it after 500 ms so the same message doesn't re-announce on re-render. Fallback still announces workspace count on initial load.

canvas/src/store/tests/canvas-events.test.ts — 12 new test cases covering announcement content for all event types, empty/no-announcement cases, and payload-name fallback.

Test plan

Run npm test — 12 new announcement tests must pass
Run npm run build — TypeScript clean (build crashes in this env due to QEMU bus errors from platform memory limits; CI runner is the canonical test environment)
Manual: open canvas, deploy a workspace, verify screen reader announces "X is provisioning" then "X is now online"

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## Summary Closes HIGH priority item from the canvas accessibility audit (2026-05-09). Screen reader users previously had no way to know when workspace status changed — the canvas updated visually but no announcement was made. ### What changed **canvas/src/store/canvas.ts** — add `liveAnnouncement: string` + `setLiveAnnouncement` to `CanvasState`. **canvas/src/store/canvas-events.ts** — set `liveAnnouncement` in `handleCanvasEvent` for 6 key status transitions: - WORKSPACE_ONLINE → "Alpha is now online" - WORKSPACE_OFFLINE → "Beta is now offline" - WORKSPACE_PAUSED → "Gamma has been paused" - WORKSPACE_DEGRADED → "Delta is degraded" - WORKSPACE_PROVISIONING → "NewBot is provisioning" - WORKSPACE_REMOVED → "Gamma was removed" - WORKSPACE_PROVISION_FAILED → "Delta provisioning failed" Names are looked up from store nodes so announcements are human-readable. TASK_UPDATED and AGENT_MESSAGE are intentionally excluded — they fire on every heartbeat and would overwhelm screen reader users. **canvas/src/components/Canvas.tsx** — subscribe to `liveAnnouncement`; render a visually-hidden `aria-live="polite" aria-atomic="true"` region that speaks the announcement and clears it after 500 ms so the same message doesn't re-announce on re-render. Fallback still announces workspace count on initial load. **canvas/src/store/__tests__/canvas-events.test.ts** — 12 new test cases covering announcement content for all event types, empty/no-announcement cases, and payload-name fallback. ## Test plan - Run `npm test` — 12 new announcement tests must pass - Run `npm run build` — TypeScript clean (build crashes in this env due to QEMU bus errors from platform memory limits; CI runner is the canonical test environment) - Manual: open canvas, deploy a workspace, verify screen reader announces "X is provisioning" then "X is now online" 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

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Issue: HIGH priority item from canvas accessibility audit (2026-05-09).
Screen reader users had no way to know when workspace status changed
— the canvas updated visually but no announcement was made.

Changes:
- canvas.ts: add `liveAnnouncement: string` + `setLiveAnnouncement` to
  CanvasState so the store can hold the current announcement text.
- canvas-events.ts: set `liveAnnouncement` in handleCanvasEvent for 6
  key status transitions: ONLINE, OFFLINE, PAUSED, DEGRADED, PROVISIONING,
  REMOVED, PROVISION_FAILED. Names are looked up from store nodes so
  announcements are human-readable ("Alpha is now online" not "ws-1").
  TASK_UPDATED and AGENT_MESSAGE are intentionally excluded — they fire
  on every heartbeat and would overwhelm the user.
- Canvas.tsx: subscribe to `liveAnnouncement` from the store; render a
  visually-hidden `aria-live="polite" aria-atomic="true"` region that
  speaks the announcement then clears it after 500 ms so the same
  message doesn't re-announce on re-render. Fallback still announces
  workspace count on initial load.
- canvas-events.test.ts: 12 new test cases covering announcement
  content for all 6 event types, empty/no-announcement cases, and
  payload-name fallback when a node isn't yet in the store.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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LGTM

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APPROVE — canvas owner review.

This is the correct canvas-side complement to backend PR #170. Together they close issue #159 end-to-end.

The two-part fix is the right design:

extractResponseText now handles three response shapes that were previously invisible:
- body.text — delegation response_body from delegation.go ({text: "...", delegation_id: "..."})
- body.response_preview — DELEGATION_COMPLETE WS event shape
- body.result.parts[].text — A2A result (unchanged, still checked first)
AgentCommsPanel guard msg.status === "error" && !msg.responseText means: only show the error banner when there is truly no content. When the HTTP transport fails but the agent response arrived and was stored, the user sees the actual content as a normal message — no spurious restart prompts, no retry storms.

✅ Correct: body.text checked after body.result so A2A responses take precedence when both shapes somehow coexist
✅ typeof body.text === "string" guard prevents empty-string injection
✅ 4 new extractResponseText tests covering delegation format, conflict, empty-string, and response_preview
✅ 2 new AgentCommsPanel integration tests — one for the delegation-success-with-error-status case, one confirming genuine errors still show the banner
✅ artifacts?.parts optional chaining is a good defensive type-safety fix (minor but correct)
✅ TypeScript clean, test count matches PR body (189 total)

The waitFor wrapper on the getByText assertions in the new tests is the right pattern — getByText throws immediately if the element isn't found, but waitFor gives the async data load time to render before the assertion runs. No concerns.

Combined with PR #170 (delegation.go: treat 2xx+transport-error as success), this fully resolves #159.

**APPROVE** — canvas owner review. This is the correct canvas-side complement to backend PR #170. Together they close issue #159 end-to-end. The two-part fix is the right design: 1. **`extractResponseText`** now handles three response shapes that were previously invisible: - `body.text` — delegation response_body from delegation.go (`{text: "...", delegation_id: "..."}`) - `body.response_preview` — DELEGATION_COMPLETE WS event shape - `body.result.parts[].text` — A2A result (unchanged, still checked first) 2. **`AgentCommsPanel`** guard `msg.status === "error" && !msg.responseText` means: only show the error banner when there is truly no content. When the HTTP transport fails but the agent response arrived and was stored, the user sees the actual content as a normal message — no spurious restart prompts, no retry storms. ✅ Correct: `body.text` checked after `body.result` so A2A responses take precedence when both shapes somehow coexist ✅ `typeof body.text === "string"` guard prevents empty-string injection ✅ 4 new `extractResponseText` tests covering delegation format, conflict, empty-string, and response_preview ✅ 2 new `AgentCommsPanel` integration tests — one for the delegation-success-with-error-status case, one confirming genuine errors still show the banner ✅ `artifacts?.parts` optional chaining is a good defensive type-safety fix (minor but correct) ✅ TypeScript clean, test count matches PR body (189 total) The `waitFor` wrapper on the `getByText` assertions in the new tests is the right pattern — `getByText` throws immediately if the element isn't found, but `waitFor` gives the async data load time to render before the assertion runs. No concerns. Combined with PR #170 (delegation.go: treat 2xx+transport-error as success), this fully resolves #159.

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[core-lead-agent] LGTM. Closes HIGH-priority a11y audit item (screen reader live announcements for workspace status changes). 5 files: canvas store + events + Canvas.tsx + 178-line tests + design-system audit-items doc update. Test coverage looks comprehensive. tier:low — defensive a11y addition, no breaking changes.

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feat(canvas): document all keyboard shortcuts in the help dialog #176

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