high priority low complexity testing pending testing specialist Tier 3

Acceptance Criteria

Semantics tree for AccessibleSearchInputField contains a node with label matching the field's labelText, hint matching hintText, and textField semantic role
Live region announcement node is present in the semantics tree after search results load, with value containing result count (e.g. '5 results found')
Empty state widget renders its descriptive text and is exposed to the semantics tree with the correct label when the result list is empty
Offline banner widget is visible and has a semantics label announcing offline status when connectivity is false
All interactive touch targets (search field, voice button, result items, clear button) meet minimum 44x44dp touch target size per WCAG 2.2 AA success criterion 2.5.8
All widget tests pass with zero accessibility-related failures reported by the flutter_test semantics checker
Test file is co-located with the widget under test or in the corresponding test/ directory mirror structure
Each WCAG 2.2 AA requirement covered is documented in a comment above the relevant test case

Technical Requirements

frameworks
Flutter
flutter_test
performance requirements
All widget tests must complete in under 30 seconds total to keep CI feedback loop fast
ui components
AccessibleSearchInputField
SearchResultsList
OfflineBanner
EmptyStateWidget
VoiceSearchButton

Execution Context

Execution Tier
Tier 3

Tier 3 - 413 tasks

Can start after Tier 2 completes

Implementation Notes

Import 'package:flutter_test/flutter_test.dart' and enable semantics with ensureSemantics() at the top of each test. Wrap widgets in a ProviderScope (Riverpod) or BlocProvider (BLoC) depending on the state management used by the search UI components. For live region tests, use SemanticsFlag.isLiveRegion on the target semantics node. For touch target tests, retrieve the render object with tester.renderObject(find.byType(YourWidget)) and assert size >= Size(44, 44).

Group tests logically: one group per WCAG criterion covered (e.g., group('1.3.1 Info and Relationships', ...), group('2.5.8 Target Size', ...)). Use setUp() to reduce boilerplate for common widget tree construction. Do not mock platform channels for this task — pure widget tests are sufficient.

Testing Requirements

Use flutter_test widget testing exclusively (no integration_test package for this task). Each test should call tester.pumpWidget() with the target widget wrapped in a MaterialApp and any required BLoC/Riverpod providers. Use tester.getSemantics() and the SemanticsController to assert tree structure. Use tester.tap() and tester.pump() to simulate interactions.

Assert touch target sizes by checking the RenderBox size of each interactive element via tester.getSize(). Include negative tests: assert that the live region does NOT announce when results have not yet loaded. Use expect(tester.takeException(), isNull) after each interaction to catch unexpected errors. Target 100% statement coverage of the accessibility-specific code paths.

Epic Risks (2)
medium impact medium prob technical

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.

low impact low prob dependency

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.