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Shared confirm dialog (confirmDialog.ts) and the native dialogs that bypassed it. First PR of the UX audit series (confirm dialogs, part 1 of 2: the primitive; part 2 adds amounts/accounts to the Execute now, Run now and RI exchange confirms).

  • Destructive dialogs (or initialFocus: 'cancel') focus Cancel, so a reflex Enter no longer deletes. With hideCancelButton the safe target is the close-X.
  • aria-labelledby / aria-describedby on the dialog (axe aria-dialog-name violation gone).
  • Shift+Tab cycles backwards inside the trap.
  • Native confirm() in the unsaved-settings guard (tab switch and popstate) and bulk add to group, and native prompt() in registration reject (now a styled dialog with an optional reason textarea), replaced by confirmDialog.

Not changed: users/handlers.ts prompt() for #bulk-group-btn. That button is not in index.html (only in tests); the production toolbar uses the select. Left for the cleanup PR.

Refs #705 (native alert() at apikeys.ts:451 left for the toast work), #731 (the dialogs routed through openModal are not in this PR).

Verification

  • tsc --noEmit clean; eslint clean on touched files; jest: confirmDialog, navigation, users, registrations suites 336 passed (new tests: aria names, focus target, Shift+Tab, unsaved guard stay/leave).
  • Playwright against the mock API (admin users, Delete), before = origin/main e5ac75d, after = this head. Shots: /tmp/claude/ux-fixes/shots/dialog-delete-main-{1280,768,390}.png and dialog-delete-pr1a-{1280,768,390}.png.
  • Mock-based evidence, not a real backend.

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  • New Features
    • Replaced browser prompts and confirmation pop-ups for rejecting registrations, leaving the Admin tab with unsaved changes, and adding users to groups with styled confirmation dialogs. Registration rejections can include an optional reason.
    • Improved dialog accessibility and keyboard navigation, including clearer screen-reader labels and support for moving focus backward with Shift+Tab.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Cancelling an unsaved-changes prompt keeps the current tab active; confirming navigates as expected.

confirmDialog focuses Cancel for destructive dialogs (or when a caller
passes initialFocus: 'cancel'), names the dialog via aria-labelledby /
aria-describedby, and cycles focus backwards on Shift+Tab. The native
confirm() calls in navigation (unsaved settings guard) and bulk add to
group, and the native prompt() in registration reject, now use the styled
dialog.

Refs #705, #731

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • frontend/src/__tests__/confirmDialog.test.ts
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  • frontend/tests-e2e/history-action-confirmation.spec.ts
  • frontend/tests-e2e/ri-exchange-confirmation.spec.ts


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The confirmation dialog now supports accessible title and body associations, configurable initial focus, and reverse focus traversal. Registration rejection, bulk group addition, and unsaved-settings navigation use the dialog instead of native browser prompts or confirmations.

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Confirmation dialog and integrations

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dialog accessibility and focus behavior
frontend/src/confirmDialog.ts, frontend/src/__tests__/confirmDialog.test.ts
The dialog associates its title and body with ARIA attributes, sets initial focus based on options and destructive status, and supports reverse focus traversal. Tests cover these behaviors.
Rejection and group confirmations
frontend/src/modules/registrations.ts, frontend/src/users/userActions.ts, frontend/src/__tests__/users.test.ts
Registration rejection collects an optional reason in a confirmation dialog. Bulk group addition displays the group name and permission effect, and stops when the dialog is declined.
Unsaved-changes navigation
frontend/src/navigation.ts, frontend/src/__tests__/navigation.test.ts
Tab changes and browser-history navigation use a dialog to confirm leaving Admin settings with unsaved changes. Tests cover staying on the tab and leaving it.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant BrowserHistory
  participant Navigation
  participant confirmDialog
  User->>BrowserHistory: Requests back or forward navigation
  BrowserHistory->>Navigation: Reports a tab history change
  Navigation->>confirmDialog: Requests unsaved-changes confirmation
  confirmDialog-->>User: Shows leave and stay choices
  User->>confirmDialog: Selects leave or stay
  confirmDialog-->>Navigation: Returns the choice
  alt User confirms
    Navigation->>Navigation: Updates historyId and switches tabs without pushing history
  else User cancels
    Navigation->>BrowserHistory: Reverses movement when delta is nonzero
  end
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e56ae

In the new reject dialog, keyboard users may be unable to reach the optional reason field. Pressing Back repeatedly with unsaved Admin settings can open several dialogs and leave the shown tab out of step with the URL. Both should be resolved before merging.

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Review comments at @frontend/src/confirmDialog.ts:
- Line 133: Update the focus-cycle construction in the confirm dialog to use the
dialog’s rendered focusable elements in DOM order, including body controls such
as the rejection-reason textarea, instead of cycling only through buttons;
update the Shift+Tab test to expect that order.

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- Line 376: Update the popstate handler around confirmLeaveSettings so only the
latest Back navigation can apply its decision. Prevent opening overlapping
confirmation dialogs or invalidate earlier callbacks when a newer popstate
arrives, keeping switchTab and the browser URL synchronized with the confirmed
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if (delta !== 0) window.history.go(-delta);
return;
}
void confirmLeaveSettings().then(leave => {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Handle subsequent Back events while confirmation is pending.

If the user presses Back twice while Admin settings are dirty, this handler opens two dialogs with different history targets. If the user stays in the second dialog and then confirms the first, switchTab shows the first target while the browser URL remains on Admin. Keep one pending navigation decision, or invalidate stale callbacks when a newer popstate arrives.

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Review comment at @frontend/src/navigation.ts at line 376:
Update the popstate handler around confirmLeaveSettings so only the latest Back
navigation can apply its decision. Prevent opening overlapping confirmation
dialogs or invalidate earlier callbacks when a newer popstate arrives, keeping
switchTab and the browser URL synchronized with the confirmed target.

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Independent review (rv-ux-visual): PR #763 at e56aea5ed88547fac200e0c944f644fee32eaaee

Verdict: changes requested. One medium issue (keyboard users cannot reach the new reject-reason field). The core fix is verified and nothing else regressed.

Base: origin/main e5ac75d265c21b58005583c7dbb1c06148fe6d27. Both SHAs were built from GitHub tarballs (production webpack build) and served through the same mock API. Playwright Chromium at 1280/768/390, with axe-core 4.11 (WCAG 2.0/2.1/2.2 A+AA, plus best-practice on the dialogs). This is mock-based evidence, not a real backend.

Verified fixed (base vs head, same script)

Flow Base e5ac75d Head e56aea5
Delete user dialog: initial focus "Delete user" "Cancel" (all 3 widths)
Delete user: open dialog, press Enter by reflex DELETE /api/users/u2 sent no DELETE; dialog closes as Cancel
Delete user: accessible name / description none; axe aria-dialog-name (serious) named by title, described by body; aria-dialog-name gone
Shift+Tab inside the trap moved forwards cycles backwards (Delete user, ×, Cancel)
Unsaved settings, tab click native confirm() styled dialog, focus on "Stay on this tab"; Escape keeps /admin/general; "Leave without saving" goes to /home
Unsaved settings, browser Back native confirm() styled dialog; Escape restores /admin/general with Admin visible
Registration reject native prompt() styled destructive dialog with a reason textarea, focus on Cancel
Bulk add to group native confirm() styled dialog: "Add 1 user to "Purchasers"?", focus on "Add to group" (non-destructive, correct)

The only axe violation left inside the dialogs is color-contrast on the red confirm button (white on #ea4335, 3.92:1). That is pre-existing and tracked in #696.

No regressions

  • 11 pages x 3 widths (Home, Opportunities, Plans, Purchases, 3 Inventory sub-tabs, Admin General/Purchasing/Users/Accounts) were pixel-diffed base vs head. 30 of 33 are 0.00%. Admin Accounts (0.03%) and Admin Purchasing (0.01%) differ only in mock timestamps that are generated from the current time (12:43 vs 12:44).
  • Page-level axe results are identical on every page and width, and so are horizontal-overflow numbers. No console errors on either build.

Findings

  1. Medium: the reject-reason textarea is unreachable by keyboard (frontend/src/confirmDialog.ts, Tab handler cycle [confirmBtn, cancelBtn, closeBtn]; frontend/src/modules/registrations.ts handleReject).
    • The focus trap cycles over a hard-coded list of the three buttons. The textarea this PR adds to the dialog body is never in the cycle.
    • Live: from the initial focus (Cancel), six Tab presses visit ×, Reject registration, Cancel, ×, Reject registration, Cancel. #registration-reject-reason is never focused.
    • The native prompt() this replaces focused its input, so keyboard and screen-reader users lose the ability to give a reason. A mouse user can still click into it.
    • Fix: build the cycle from the dialog's focusable descendants, e.g. dialog.querySelectorAll('button, [href], input, select, textarea, [tabindex]:not([tabindex="-1"])') filtered to enabled ones, instead of the fixed button list. Add a jest case with an HTMLElement body containing a textarea. Optionally let the reject dialog put initial focus in the textarea: it is still safe, because Enter in a textarea inserts a newline and does not confirm.
  2. Nit: a double Back while the dialog is open stacks two dialogs.
    • Each popstate now opens its own async dialog. Live: 2 dialogs are open at once; after two Escapes the app ends correctly on /admin/general. Between the two Escapes, the URL reads /opportunities while Admin is shown.
    • Base was also wrong here (it ended on /opportunities), so this is not a regression.
    • Optional fix: keep a module-level pending promise in confirmLeaveSettings and return it while a dialog is already open.
  3. Nit: on the reject dialog, aria-describedby resolves to "Reason (optional)" (the whole body, which is just the label). Harmless. Pass a short sentence such as "The registrant will see this reason." above the field if you want a real description.
  4. Nit: reasonInput.style.width = '100%' adds another inline style (audit M8 / fix(frontend): undefined CSS custom properties and inline-styled MFA panels #745). A class or .modal-confirm-body textarea{width:100%} would keep it out of the TS.

Out of scope, noted for later PRs

  • Focus position is not visible: the delete-dialog screenshots are pixel-identical between base and head even though focus moved from "Delete user" to "Cancel". That is audit M4 (focus ring), not this PR.
  • CI at this SHA when reviewed: green except Playwright Chromium and Integration Tests, which were still running.

Evidence (local, on the review host): /tmp/claude/ux-pr/shots-763/ (dialog-*-{base,head}-{1280,768,390}.png, page shots, *-diff-*.png, flows-{base,head}.json, axe-{base,head}.json). Scripts: /tmp/claude/ux-run/{fetch-build.sh,review-shoot.js,review-diff.js,pr763-flows.js}.

cristim and others added 2 commits October 9, 2026 12:46
Tab now cycles every focusable in the dialog in DOM order, so the
registration reject reason textarea is reachable. The textarea width moves
from an inline style to a class.

Refs #705

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nter

Destructive confirm dialogs now open with Cancel focused, so the specs that
confirmed by pressing Enter (and asserted Confirm had focus) now click the
action button and assert the safe-action focus.

Refs #705

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Independent review, round 2 (rv-ux-visual): PR #763 at d7fb436f298da28a899a2279e489ad7751318d2a

Verdict: approved (no blocking findings). CI was still running at this SHA when I posted.

What changed since round 1 (e56aea5)

  • 2524d41 "confirm dialog focus trap includes body inputs": the Tab cycle is now dialog.querySelectorAll(FOCUSABLE_SELECTOR), reusing the selector from modal.ts, which excludes disabled and hidden inputs. The reject textarea's inline width moved to .registration-reject-reason in forms.css. This closes finding 1 and nit 4.
  • d7fb436: e2e specs only (tests-e2e/history-action-confirmation.spec.ts, ri-exchange-confirmation.spec.ts). They click the confirm button instead of pressing Enter, because destructive dialogs now open on Cancel. frontend/src is byte-identical to 2524d41 (GitHub compare 2524d41...d7fb436 touches only tests-e2e/), so the live evidence below, taken at 2524d41, applies to this SHA.

Re-verified live at 2524d41 (same mock and scripts as round 1)

  • Reject registration: from the initial focus (Cancel), Tab visits Reject registration, ×, #registration-reject-reason, Cancel, and so on. The field is reachable by keyboard; it was unreachable in round 1.
  • Delete user: still opens on Cancel; a reflex Enter sends no DELETE; Shift+Tab cycles ×, Delete user, Cancel (DOM order).
  • Unsaved-settings guard (tab click and browser Back) and bulk add to group: unchanged from round 1 and still correct.
  • Dialog axe: only color-contrast on the red confirm button remains (pre-existing, fix(frontend): core color tokens fail WCAG AA contrast #696).
  • Pages: Plans, Admin Users and Admin Accounts were compared against origin/main e5ac75d under the same mock. All are 0.00% except a 0.07% registration timestamp. There are no console errors.

Still open (non-blocking, fine as follow-ups)

  • Double browser Back while the dialog is open stacks two dialogs. The final state is correct; base was also wrong here.
  • On the reject dialog, aria-describedby resolves to the label "Reason (optional)".
  • Out of scope: focus position is still invisible on screen (audit M4).

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Merged at reviewed SHA d7fb436 (squash, --match-head-commit) as 2360338.

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