Integration checkpoint for epic-contact-search-accessible-ui
epic-contact-search-accessible-ui-integration-task — Integration Task
Integration Purpose
Verify integration with dependent epics: epic-contact-search-service-infrastructure
This integration checkpoint ensures proper coordination and compatibility between different epics. It verifies that all interfaces, data flows, and dependencies are correctly implemented before proceeding.
Integrates With Epics
Execution Context
Tier 4 - 323 tasks
Can start after Tier 3 completes
Handles integration between different epics or system components. Requires coordination across multiple development streams.
| Status | pending |
| Type | Integration |
| Estimated | 4h |
| Tier | 4 |
Flutter's Semantics live region support for announcing dynamic result count changes may behave inconsistently between VoiceOver (iOS) and TalkBack (Android), particularly regarding announcement throttling and focus management, causing the feature to pass testing on one platform and fail on the other.
Mitigation & Contingency
Mitigation: Test live region announcements on both iOS (VoiceOver) and Android (TalkBack) early in development using the existing accessibility test harness. Reference the existing LiveRegionAnnouncer component (608-live-region-announcer) patterns used elsewhere in the app.
Contingency: If cross-platform consistency cannot be achieved, implement a platform-specific announcement strategy using the SemanticsService.announce API with platform-conditional announcement timing to work around OS-specific throttling behaviour.
Voice-to-text progressive enhancement for Blindeforbundet may not be available or may behave unpredictably on all device/OS combinations, particularly older Android devices, potentially causing crashes or silent failures that degrade the search experience.
Mitigation & Contingency
Mitigation: Implement voice-to-text as a strictly optional enhancement: detect availability at runtime, show the microphone button only when the platform speech API reports availability, and wrap all voice invocations in try/catch with graceful degradation to standard text input.
Contingency: If voice-to-text causes instability on a subset of devices discovered during TestFlight/beta, disable the feature flag for that platform version while a fix is investigated, without impacting the core text-based search functionality.