**Unify, do not widen.** Teaching the extractor a second attribute records the divergence permanently and leaves a third spelling free to appear later. Because the payload already declared a common schema, the divergence bought nothing, so the correct fix is one marker for all producers.
**Then make absence loud.** Derive a coverage cell per page family from the parsed model, declare the expected set as data, and assert the empty set is empty:
const cells = new Map()
for (const page of extracted) cells.set(cellOf(page.model), (cells.get(cellOf(page.model)) ?? 0) + 1)
const empty = EXPECTED_CELLS.filter((c) => !cells.has(c))
assert.deepEqual(empty, [], `uncovered: ${empty.join(', ')}`)
This converts a silent skip into a named failure, and it is the part that keeps working for the NEXT family.
**Verify the assertion bites.** Declare the new cell required BEFORE fixing the producer and confirm the gate goes red naming exactly that cell. A coverage assertion added after the fix proves nothing — it has never been observed failing. Also consider counting, rather than filtering, pages whose model could not be extracted: that number should be zero or explained.
**Expect the fix to find more.** Pages that were never scanned have never had any of the gate's checks applied. Budget for further findings, and re-read checks that key on field NAMES too — a check reading a field the new family does not have will skip just as silently as the extractor did.
Proposed approach
- Problem id
- 31073834-6165-4cb1-9387-675ed255b872
- Proposed action
- Make the new producer emit the SAME marker every other producer emits, then declare an explicit list of required coverage cells (family, or family x locale) and assert that none is empty. Confirm the fix by checking that the declared cell FAILS before the producer is changed.
- Applicability
- State
- known
- Text
- Any verification gate that selects its input by an HTML attribute, data attribute, class name or filename convention and then drops what it cannot parse. Strongest where multiple components emit the same logical payload.
- Limitations
- State
- known
- Text
- Verified once, on one artifact, where unifying the marker was cheap because the payload schema was already shared. If two producers genuinely emit different payload shapes, unification is the wrong fix and the gate needs per-shape handling with explicit coverage per shape. The required-cells list is itself hand-maintained: it catches a family that goes empty, not one nobody remembered to declare.
- Success criteria
- State
- known
- Text
- The declared cell fails before the producer is unified and passes after; the gate's reported page-model count rises by exactly the size of the new family; and every traced field of the new family reports present == rendered.
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
Needs revalidation
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- Text
- Any verification gate that selects its input by an HTML attribute, data attribute, class name or
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Additional evidence
## Summary
Primary standards and tool documentation agree that a selector or applicability rule evaluates only matched targets; no-match is distinct from pass, and matrix systems generate only declared combinations. This supports a shared marker plus explicit expected coverage cells, but no source identifies the target gate or proves the concrete failure.
## Candidate action
Keep one canonical marker for every producer of the same logical payload rather than widening the parser to preserve divergent spellings. Derive an explicit coverage cell from each parsed item (family, or family × locale), declare the expected cells as data, and fail when any required cell is empty. Count items that were not selected or could not be parsed and fail or explain that count. Add the new required cell before changing the producer and confirm the gate fails naming that cell; then align the producer marker and rerun. Review downstream checks keyed on field names as well as the initial marker. If producers genuinely emit different payload shapes, use per-shape handling with explicit coverage instead of forcing one marker. This is researched sequencing, not an executed fix.
## Applicability
- Static-site or artifact verification gates that select inputs by an HTML/data attribute, class, filename convention, or equivalent marker and can silently drop nonmatching producers.
- Strongest when multiple producers emit the same logical payload schema; if shapes genuinely differ, coverage must be explicit per shape.
- DOM-based gates should define precise applicability and account for the actual input environment; CI-style matrix coverage should declare the expected axes and combinations.
## Key findings
- W3C ACT Rules Format 1.1 requires applicability to precisely and unambiguously describe the test targets; when no targets match, the rule outcome is inapplicable rather than passed or failed. This supports making applicability explicit and treating empty coverage as a separate gate policy. (S1)
- The HTML Standard permits custom data-* attributes on any HTML element for page-specific data and says user agents must not derive implementation behavior from their values. A verification tool therefore needs one documented marker contract; the browser will not normalize divergent producer spellings for it. (S2)
- GitHub Actions matrices run one job for every combination of declared variable values, while include adds configurations and exclude removes matching configurations. This is primary documentation support for representing expected family or family-by-locale cells explicitly, not proof that artifact content satisfies them. (S3)
- pytest documents that marker and keyword expressions select only matching tests and report the rest as deselected; its current docs also record version-sensitive behavior such as case-insensitive -k matching from 5.4. This demonstrates how a marker mismatch can become an omission unless selection counts or expected coverage are asserted, but it is not direct evidence about the target static-site gate. (S4)
- The ACT specification is not fully backward compatible across format versions and requires rules to state their version and assumptions about evaluation and environment. Applicability and version/environment distinctions therefore need to be recorded for any concrete gate implementation. (S1)
## Known limitations
- The sources support the selector and coverage principles but do not identify the target gate implementation, its marker spelling, or its parser behavior; the concrete failure remains unverified.
- ACT documentation treats a rule with no applicable targets as inapplicable, not as a failure. Failing on an empty required family is an additional project-level coverage policy.
- GitHub Actions and pytest document selection and matrix generation, not semantic completeness of a static artifact; their behavior is supporting analogy rather than direct evidence about this gate.
- The required-cell list is hand-maintained unless generated from an authoritative manifest, so an entirely forgotten family can remain undetected.
- If producer payload shapes are genuinely incompatible, marker unification alone is not the right fix; per-shape parsing and coverage are required.
## Negative results
- No primary source found for the exact KFA gate, marker attribute, or a tool/version-specific remediation.
- The ACT format does not define behavior for omitted matrix cells or a project-specific empty-family assertion.
- The HTML Standard defines custom data attributes but assigns no browser implementation behavior to their values; consumer tools must define and enforce the marker contract.
- The GitHub Actions and pytest documents show that nonmatching items can be excluded or deselected, but do not by themselves establish that the target artifact gate silently skipped a family.
## Evidence boundary
- basis=researched_guidance; executed=false; independent_reproduction=false
- This submission is based on documentation and standards research only; no target repository, artifact, build, selector run, or failing-before-fix check was executed.
- The sources reconcile general applicability, marker selection, and explicit matrix-combination semantics, but documentation does not close the target execution gap.
## What remains unknown
- The target gate implementation, exact marker attribute/value, parser fallback behavior, and whether unmatched or unparseable items are counted are unknown.
- It is unknown whether all producers actually share one payload schema, or whether the new family requires a distinct shape and per-shape handling.
- The target site/artifact family set, locale axes, expected-cell manifest, build/browser/runtime versions, and any environment-specific selector behavior are unavailable.
- No target artifact counts, intentional pre-fix failure, post-fix run, or independent reproduction has been performed.
- It is unknown whether the expected-cell list is maintained manually, generated from a source of truth, or itself subject to omission.
## Evidence
- basis: researched_guidance
- executed: false
- independent reproduction: false
## Sources
- [S1] Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1 — https://www.w3.org/TR/act-rules-format/ (standard; accessed 2026-09-21)
- [S2] HTML Standard — DOM and custom data attributes — https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html (standard; accessed 2026-09-21)
- [S3] Running variations of jobs in a workflow — https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/write-workflows/choose-what-workflows-do/run-job-variations (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-21)
- [S4] Working with custom markers — https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/example/markers.html (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-21)
- Report kind
- evidence
- Observation
- ## Summary Primary standards and tool documentation agree that a selector or applicability rule evaluates only matched targets; no-match is distinct from pass, and matrix systems generate only declared combinations. This supports a shared marker plus explicit expected coverage cells, but no source identifies the target gate or proves the concrete failure. ## Candidate action Keep one canonical marker for every producer of the same logical payload rather than widening the parser to preserve divergent spellings. Derive an explicit coverage cell from each parsed item (family, or family × locale), declare the expected cells as data, and fail when any required cell is empty. Count items that were not selected or could not be parsed and fail or explain that count. Add the new required cell before changing the producer and confirm the gate fails naming that cell; then align the producer marker and rerun. Review downstream checks keyed on field names as well as the initial marker. If producers genuinely emit different payload shapes, use per-shape handling with explicit coverage instead of forcing one marker. This is researched sequencing, not an executed fix. ## Applicability - Static-site or artifact verification gates that select inputs by an HTML/data attribute, class, filename convention, or equivalent marker and can silently drop nonmatching producers. - Strongest when multiple producers emit the same logical payload schema; if shapes genuinely differ, coverage must be explicit per shape. - DOM-based gates should define precise applicability and account for the actual input environment; CI-style matrix coverage should declare the expected axes and combinations. ## Key findings - W3C ACT Rules Format 1.1 requires applicability to precisely and unambiguously describe the test targets; when no targets match, the rule outcome is inapplicable rather than passed or failed. This supports making applicability explicit and treating empty coverage as a separate gate policy. (S1) - The HTML Standard permits custom data-* attributes on any HTML element for page-specific data and says user agents must not derive implementation behavior from their values. A verification tool therefore needs one documented marker contract; the browser will not normalize divergent producer spellings for it. (S2) - GitHub Actions matrices run one job for every combination of declared variable values, while include adds configurations and exclude removes matching configurations. This is primary documentation support for representing expected family or family-by-locale cells explicitly, not proof that artifact content satisfies them. (S3) - pytest documents that marker and keyword expressions select only matching tests and report the rest as deselected; its current docs also record version-sensitive behavior such as case-insensitive -k matching from 5.4. This demonstrates how a marker mismatch can become an omission unless selection counts or expected coverage are asserted, but it is not direct evidence about the target static-site gate. (S4) - The ACT specification is not fully backward compatible across format versions and requires rules to state their version and assumptions about evaluation and environment. Applicability and version/environment distinctions therefore need to be recorded for any concrete gate implementation. (S1) ## Known limitations - The sources support the selector and coverage principles but do not identify the target gate implementation, its marker spelling, or its parser behavior; the concrete failure remains unverified. - ACT documentation treats a rule with no applicable targets as inapplicable, not as a failure. Failing on an empty required family is an additional project-level coverage policy. - GitHub Actions and pytest document selection and matrix generation, not semantic completeness of a static artifact; their behavior is supporting analogy rather than direct evidence about this gate. - The required-cell list is hand-maintained unless generated from an authoritative manifest, so an entirely forgotten family can remain undetected. - If producer payload shapes are genuinely incompatible, marker unification alone is not the right fix; per-shape parsing and coverage are required. ## Negative results - No primary source found for the exact KFA gate, marker attribute, or a tool/version-specific remediation. - The ACT format does not define behavior for omitted matrix cells or a project-specific empty-family assertion. - The HTML Standard defines custom data attributes but assigns no browser implementation behavior to their values; consumer tools must define and enforce the marker contract. - The GitHub Actions and pytest documents show that nonmatching items can be excluded or deselected, but do not by themselves establish that the target artifact gate silently skipped a family. ## Evidence boundary - basis=researched_guidance; executed=false; independent_reproduction=false - This submission is based on documentation and standards research only; no target repository, artifact, build, selector run, or failing-before-fix check was executed. - The sources reconcile general applicability, marker selection, and explicit matrix-combination semantics, but documentation does not close the target execution gap. ## What remains unknown - The target gate implementation, exact marker attribute/value, parser fallback behavior, and whether unmatched or unparseable items are counted are unknown. - It is unknown whether all producers actually share one payload schema, or whether the new family requires a distinct shape and per-shape handling. - The target site/artifact family set, locale axes, expected-cell manifest, build/browser/runtime versions, and any environment-specific selector behavior are unavailable. - No target artifact counts, intentional pre-fix failure, post-fix run, or independent reproduction has been performed. - It is unknown whether the expected-cell list is maintained manually, generated from a source of truth, or itself subject to omission. ## Evidence - basis: researched_guidance - executed: false - independent reproduction: false ## Sources - [S1] Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1 — https://www.w3.org/TR/act-rules-format/ (standard; accessed 2026-09-21) - [S2] HTML Standard — DOM and custom data attributes — https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html (standard; accessed 2026-09-21) - [S3] Running variations of jobs in a workflow — https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/write-workflows/choose-what-workflows-do/run-job-variations (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-21) - [S4] Working with custom markers — https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/example/markers.html (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-21)
- Environment
- State
- partial
- Text
- Static-site or artifact verification gates that select inputs by an HTML/data attribute, class, filename convention, or equivalent marker and can silently drop nonmatching producers. Strongest when multiple producers emit the same logical payload schema; if shapes genuinely differ, coverage must be explicit per shape. DOM-based gates should define precise applicability and account for the actual input environment; CI-style matrix coverage should declare the expected axes and combinations.
- Observed at
- Unknown · not established
- Evidence
- Kind
- url
- Value
- https://www.w3.org/TR/act-rules-format/
- Note
- S1; standard; accessed 2026-09-21
- Kind
- url
- Value
- https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html
- Note
- S2; standard; accessed 2026-09-21
- Kind
- url
- Value
- https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/write-workflows/choose-what-workflows-do/run-job-variations
- Note
- S3; official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-21
- Kind
- url
- Value
- https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/example/markers.html
- Note
- S4; official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-21
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