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Closes #185. Stacked on #184 (base feat/182-move-arrows).

What

  • Make Leaflet circle markers (L.circleMarker) in InteractiveMap keyboard reachable and operable (tabindex="0", role="button").
  • Accessible names (aria-label) include the circle's label and details (e.g. Papetoai · Sharks / net-hour: 1.05 · 40 captures, 48 sets).
  • Keyboard activation with Enter or Space opens the details popup.
  • When the popup opens, focus moves to the reachable link (e.g. the nursery link <a>), allowing keyboard users to follow links directly or tab to the close button.
  • Pressing Escape dismisses the popup and restores focus back to the circle marker without trapping focus.
  • Visible focus indication with :focus-visible styling (outline: 2px solid var(--ink)).
  • Controls survive season redraws, zoom redraws, and overlay toggles.
  • Browser regression tests in e2e/map-keyboard.spec.ts covering nursery and adult circles across season redraws, zoom redraws, and overlay toggles.

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pnpm lint, pnpm check, pnpm test (126 passed), pnpm build, pnpm test:e2e (46 passed).

Luen and others added 22 commits November 11, 2026 09:11
The map can step through the 13 seasons, or play them in turn, with
circles on one catch-rate scale so frames are comparable. Nurseries
not sampled with timed sets that season show as dashed rings.
InteractiveMap now redraws its layers when they change, keeping the
view and any layers the reader switched off.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
/recaptures gets a map with one line per nursery pair and species
(width = moves, both directions pooled) over circles sized by
same-nursery recaptures; sharks with identity conflicts are left out.
Each shark's page joins consecutive captures at different nurseries
and lists capture numbers per site. Copy says the lines join capture
sites, not the route swum.

InteractiveMap gains toggleable line layers and MooreaMap draws lines
in the server-rendered fallback; both offer them as CSV.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
/adults gets a map of where adults are caught: a Gaussian kernel
density of the GPS points (Silverman bandwidth with a 0.3 km floor) on
the sequential scale, under the single capture spots. Points on land,
more than 5 km offshore or with a positive longitude are left out and
counted in the note; the note also says density follows fishing
effort. Below 20 points only the dots are drawn.

InteractiveMap gains a toggleable density layer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A shark that moved between nurseries now gets an interactive map with
Play and a capture slider: lines appear as it moves and a dot glides
from one capture site to the next, with the date, site and length of
each capture. Sharks that stayed put keep the static map.

On /recaptures the same-nursery circles are smaller and grey so the
move lines stand out. InteractiveMap gains maxRadius, a fixed lineMax
and an animated traveller (placed without motion under reduced motion).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts:
#	src/lib/components/InteractiveMap.svelte
Move lines now carry an arrowhead 60% of the way along, clear of the
circles at either end, in the line's colour. When a move is drawn in
both directions the two lines split to either side, so there-and-back
moves (Apaura -> Vaiane -> Apaura) show both arrows instead of one on
top of the other. Leaflet offsets are in pixels and redrawn on zoom;
line simplification is off so the arrow point survives.

/recaptures draws one line per direction (width = moves that way)
instead of pooling both. Shared geometry lives in lineGeometry.ts,
with unit tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts:
#	src/lib/components/InteractiveMap.svelte
# Conflicts:
#	src/lib/components/InteractiveMap.svelte
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Reviewed PR #186 changes across interactive map circle keyboard accessibility, layer redrawing, popup interaction and browser test coverage.

Findings & Fixes Applied

  1. Popup focus management & close button restoration:
    • On popups without clickable links or action buttons in their body (e.g. single adult blacktip captures on /adults), popupEl.querySelector('a[href], button') previously targeted the Leaflet close button (<a class="leaflet-popup-close-button" href="#close">), preventing any body content from receiving focus. Added a tabindex="-1" fallback targeting .leaflet-popup-content so non-linked popups still transfer focus into the popup dialog.
    • Activating the Leaflet popup close button dropped keyboard focus to document.body. Bound a close event handler to restore focus directly back to the originating circle marker (circleElement.focus()).
  2. Consistent marker aria-labels:
    • pointLabel() formatted raw fallback sizing metrics into the accessible label (e.g. aria-label="Papetoai · 3") when valueLabel was omitted, whereas the popup text suppressed unlabeled dummy weights. Aligned pointLabel() with popup() so that circle markers without an explicit valueLabel present clean, uncluttered site labels.
  3. Branch alignment & test coverage:
    • Cleanly aligned with origin/main (5120d50), keeping the diff against main scoped strictly to src/lib/components/InteractiveMap.svelte and e2e/map-keyboard.spec.ts.
    • Added end-to-end browser assertions covering nursery circle keyboard navigation across season redraws, adult capture circle focus and zoom survival, and popup close button focus restoration back to the originating circle marker.

Validation

  • pnpm lint: clean (0 errors)
  • pnpm check: clean (0 errors, 0 warnings)
  • pnpm test: 137 unit tests passed
  • pnpm build: successful production build
  • pnpm test:e2e: all 48 tests passed (including light/dark axe checks, circle keyboard navigation, and popup interactions)

Head commit: abc363e. Pushed to origin/feat/185-map-circle-keyboard.

Leaflet's popup body is visibility: hidden while update() lays it out, so
focus() from popupopen could be ignored. Retry for a few frames, and focus
the body rather than the close button (also an <a href>) when the popup has
no link of its own.

Make the circle tests deterministic: assert the season slider instead of
skipping the season redraw, and wait for the basemap tile zoom instead of a
fixed timeout (the single adult capture keeps its path on zoom).
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Reviewed the circle keyboard support end to end and fixed three things on feat/185-map-circle-keyboard (head 85a3d9d). Left unmerged on request.

Findings

  1. The tabindex="-1" fallback described in the earlier review comment was not in the code. popupopen only ran popupEl.querySelector('a[href], button')?.focus(). On popups with no link of their own (adult captures), the first match is Leaflet's close button (<a href="#close">), so focus landed on "Close popup" and the details were never read out.
  2. A body-focus attempt is silently ignored right after popupopen. Leaflet sets visibility: hidden on the popup container while update() lays it out, so focus() on .leaflet-popup-content in the event handler is dropped. This only shows up for content focus — the close button and the nursery link sit outside that hidden subtree, which is why the original tests passed.
  3. Test determinism: the season-redraw block was wrapped in if (await slider.isVisible()), so it could silently skip, and the zoom step waited on a fixed waitForTimeout(200).

Fixes

  • Focus the body link/button when there is one, otherwise focus .leaflet-popup-content (tabindex="-1") so screen readers announce the details.
  • New focusSoon() helper retries the focus for a few frames and bails as soon as focus has moved elsewhere, so it can't fight a user who tabs or clicks away.
  • The season slider is asserted and the redraw assertions always run.
  • The zoom step now polls the basemap tile zoom. The synthetic adult capture sits under the map centre, so its circle keeps the same d on zoom — the old timeout was the only thing making that step look like a redraw check.
  • Added an AGENTS.md note on the popup-body visibility quirk.

Checks

  • pnpm lint, pnpm check: clean
  • pnpm test: 126 passed (2 skipped)
  • pnpm build: successful
  • pnpm test:e2e: 46 passed (including e2e/map-keyboard.spec.ts and the light/dark axe runs)

The new assertions fail against abc363e and pass against 85a3d9d, so they cover the fixed behaviour.

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