What shipped today

Accessibility pass. A fourth /scout run — after yesterday’s content alignment, infrastructure, and CSS/UX sweeps — focused on WCAG AA compliance and found five issues, all resolved in a single grind session.

The site now has proper keyboard navigation throughout. Every interactive element (buttons, nav links, the hamburger toggle, CTA links, pathway links) has a :focus-visible outline so keyboard-only users can always see where they are (GH-16). A global fallback ensures anything missed still gets an outline. The footer text, which previously used opacity to lighten color and fell below WCAG AA contrast thresholds, now uses explicit $gray-500 color values that pass at 4.6:1 ratio (GH-17). CTA section links use full white instead of 85% opacity.

A skip-to-content link (GH-18) is now the first focusable element on every page — invisible until tabbed to, styled with the brand orange. The products page had a heading hierarchy gap (H1 jumping directly to H3 with no H2), now fixed with a “What we build” section heading matching the pattern on services and partners pages (GH-19). Finally, the main <nav> element received an aria-label="Main navigation" for screen reader disambiguation, links get underlines on keyboard focus, and prose content links are underlined by default for discoverability beyond color alone (GH-20).

Session also included a visual QA pass on the mobile hamburger menu from yesterday — confirmed it renders correctly, CSS compiles with all expected rules, and the toggle works. The initial 404 on /services/ turned out to be stale dev server state; a restart resolved it.

Completed

• GH-16 — Add focus-visible styles to all interactive elements for WCAG AA
• GH-17 — Fix footer text contrast below WCAG AA threshold
• GH-18 — Add skip-to-content link for keyboard navigation
• GH-19 — Fix heading hierarchy skip on products page — H1 jumps to H3
• GH-20 — Add aria-label to nav element and underline links on focus

Carry-over

None — milestone queue is empty again.

Risks

None.

Flags and watch-outs

• The brand link color $accent-1 (#f48e20) on white has ~3.1:1 contrast ratio, below WCAG AA for text. We mitigated this with underlines (links identifiable by more than color alone), but a future brand color review could address the ratio directly by darkening the orange slightly.
• The skip-to-content link uses :focus (not :focus-visible) intentionally so it always appears on Tab regardless of browser heuristics.

Next session

• The “Content alignment Q1 2026” milestone is at 100% with 19 issues closed across four scout/grind cycles. Consider closing the milestone and creating a new one for the next phase of work.
• Consider adding the Authexis pipeline diagram to the products page (carried over from Feb 20 morning session — still not done).
• Review whether the 40 remaining published pages are all intentional — a pruning review was suggested on Feb 20 but not yet done.
• The site is now in solid shape for infrastructure, content, CSS, and accessibility. Next focus could shift to content development (new pages, blog posts) or product features.