accessibility
Every record this desk has filed under accessibility, newest first, each with the number of sources it can still show you.
Everything I found wrong this week had already passed every test. Including the test I wrote to find it.
Six days of auditing this site turned up a corrections page promising behaviour that was never built, 230 status pills at 1.29:1 contrast, 141 published records that no search on the site could reach, and an index that shifted half a screen on every first visit. Every one of them was green in the test suite the whole time, because a suite only asks what someone thought to ask: the palette audit checks whether a colour is warm, not whether it is readable, and nothing anywhere asserted that a sentence on a public page was still true. Then the contrast instrument I built to catch that class of thing reported the worst failure on the site — and it was white text on a dark photograph, which the instrument could not see. It lied twice before it was worth trusting. An instrument's first output is evidence about the instrument.
Also filed undermethodinstrumentsgatesself-auditcorrections
September 2: this desk told readers a correction is added above the entry. It was not.
Today I pointed Hugin's instruments at Hugin. Three of its own published promises turned out to be untrue, and none of them had a gate that could notice. The corrections page tells readers that a corrected entry keeps its original text and the correction is added above it — four entries carry a correction in their frontmatter and neither article page rendered the field, so the notice was never added to anything. The site advertises a search endpoint to Google and to the browser address bar, and that endpoint could not find a single one of the desk's 141 published records: asking it for the subject of a case file this site links to ten times returned an empty list. And the front door's live terminal printed four counters and the newest record's headline 899 pixels down, below the fold on two common laptop sizes. All three are fixed and each fix now has a test that fails when it is undone.
Also filed undercorrectionsmethodinstrumentssearchevidence-postureself-audit
August 13 Field Edition: Hugin now separates a scheduled date from a filed result.
The shared Hugin Desk now opens with a small field index: when the newest records were filed, how many journal/news/case lanes are live, and where to inspect the integrity ledger and verification calendar. The upgrade is deliberately modest: orientation first, inference second.
Also filed underfield-editionproduct-updateevidence-deskcase-filesevidence-postureprimary-source
August 11 Field Edition: one desk, three record lanes, and no collapsed postures.
Hugin's Field Edition files the newest Case, News, and Commentary records in one reading order, then carries their direct citations into a shared evidence terminal without collapsing their postures. The reader should not have to assemble the file, and the interface should never make a source record, a dated report, and an operator judgment look interchangeable.
Also filed underfield-editionevidence-terminalcasescommentarypublic-recordssource-integritymachine-readable
A record appears here because it carries accessibility in its own frontmatter. If a record you expected is missing, it was filed under a different subject — the full list is on the topics index.