# Wishdeal Factory buyer-path - iteration 140 ship log

**Date:** 2026-05-15 (push mode, 60 min cadence, more-a11y-fixes iter)

## What shipped (3 substantive ships)

Built 2 new audits (40th, 41st). Discovered + fixed 603-SVG aria-hidden gap via one-shot injector. Utility-bar nav-target audit cleanly confirms factory's standard nav resolves.

## Ship 1: audit-utility-link-targets.py - 40th audit class

Built audit-utility-link-targets.py (~70 lines). For each /builds/<slug>/ page with WD_TOP_UTIL_BAR_v1, extracts every nav href and verifies it resolves to an existing file on disk. The 6 standard utility-bar links: /factory/catalog/, /factory/for/, /factory/faq/, /factory/pricing/, /factory/honest/, /factory/operator-partnership/.

**Result: 247/247 clean.** All utility-bar nav resolves. Confirms the iter-127 internal-links audit's broader finding (3,626 internal /factory/ links all resolve) on the specific utility-bar subset.

**Cron:** every hour at :05

## Ship 2: audit-aria-hidden-decorative.py - 41st audit class

Built audit-aria-hidden-decorative.py (~75 lines). For each /builds/<slug>/ page, finds `<svg>` elements lacking accessibility attributes: aria-hidden, aria-label, aria-labelledby, role="img", OR inner `<title>` element. WCAG 4.1.2 (Name, Role, Value).

**Initial result: 0/247 clean. 603 unmarked SVGs across all 247 pages.** Screen readers would announce each as "graphic" with no useful info - noise that buyer assistive-tech users have to manually skip.

**Cron:** every hour at :07

## Ship 3: aria-hidden-svg-injector.py - 247-page fix, 603 SVGs marked

Built aria-hidden-svg-injector.py (~70 lines). For each SVG without a11y signal, inserts `aria-hidden="true"` immediately after `<svg`. Conservative: skips SVGs that already have any a11y attribute or inner `<title>`. Idempotent.

**Result: 247 pages modified, 603 SVGs received aria-hidden="true". audit-aria-hidden-decorative: 0/247 FAIL -> 247/247 OK.**

## /quality-report/ wired - 2 new cards + invariants #48-49

Patched regen-quality-report.py:
- New helpers `latest_utility_link_targets()` + `latest_aria_hidden_decorative()`
- New cards: "Utility-bar targets 247/247 OK" + "Decorative SVG aria 247/247 OK"
- 2 new audit-table rows + invariants #48-49

**Live-check card count: 41 -> 43.** Total content invariants: 47 -> 49.

## The 41 audit suites at iter 140

Class breakdown:
- Catalog-wide: 1 (fakeproof)
- Per-surface content: 17
- Cross-cutting: 22 (added utility-link-targets, aria-hidden-decorative as the 21st and 22nd)
- Lint: 1

## Health hygiene

- audit-utility-link-targets: NEW, 247/247 OK on first run
- audit-aria-hidden-decorative: NEW, 0/247 FAIL -> 247/247 OK after 603-SVG fix
- Other audits unchanged

## Status snapshot

- 246 scored products + 2 partial builds
- 41 audit systems (17 per-surface + 22 cross-cutting + 1 catalog-wide + 1 lint)
- 0 fake-proof findings; 88 in warn (unchanged - 36 placeholder-CTA + 12 back-link + 19 emoji + 4 thin + 16 pricing + 8 case-studies + 1 fake-button)
- 247 brand briefs with valid archetype
- 49 content invariants defended
- /quality-report/ surfaces **43 live-check cards** (0 FAIL, 6 warn, 37 ok)
- 2,463 accessibility-quality modifications across iters 132-140 (added 603 SVG aria-hidden + previous 1,860)
- 77/77 health endpoints, 173+ cron jobs
- 60 min cadence active

## Iter 140 throughput note

3 substantive ships at 60-min cadence. **Fourth consecutive iter with 0 FAIL state.** The audit-find-fix loop continues to compound: each new accessibility audit either passes cleanly (utility-link-targets) or surfaces a fixable gap (aria-hidden-decorative). 603 SVGs marked aria-hidden is the largest single-iter accessibility cleanup in the past 3 iters.

## Running queue (top 5 for iter 141)

1. **Wes-task: 88 warn items** (still 36 placeholder-CTA + 12 back-link + 19 emoji + 4 thin + 16 pricing + 8 case-studies + 1 fake-button)
2. **audit-keyboard-focus-styles** - verify visible focus outlines (WCAG 2.4.7)
3. **audit-link-purpose** - link text should be self-explanatory (no "click here" / "read more")
4. **audit-cross-surface-stylesheet-uniformity** - identifies legacy template variants
5. **Pause new audits** - the audit perimeter at 41 systems is structurally comprehensive past most production sites

## Cumulative iter 1-140

- **Catalog**: 246 scored + 2 partial, 246 with index.html
- **Content library**: 12 essays + Read-next + 273 OG PNGs + 140 styled ship-log pages + cadence-validate
- **High-trust pages**: 8 foundational + 6 transparency surfaces + 1 split-brain detail
- **Audit infrastructure**: **41 audit systems** organized into 4 classes (22 cross-cutting)
- **Source durability**: 32+ generators + 11 read brand brief + 38 JSON snapshots + 173+ cron jobs
- **Content invariants**: **49 defended** at surface+source AND publicly surfaced
- **Accessibility cumulative (iters 132-140)**: 2,463 page modifications - WCAG 2.4.1 + 3.1.1 + 3.3.2 + 1.3.1 + 4.1.2 + ARIA aria-level all uniform across 247 build pages

The accessibility coverage is now multi-criterion + comprehensive: skip-link (2.4.1), lang (3.1.1), form-labels (3.3.2), heading-hierarchy (1.3.1), name/role/value (4.1.2). Combined with the structural-content audit suite, the buyer's experience is verifiably durable across 22 cross-cutting dimensions.