Answer the press instead of eating it

The card picker greys out a card that is already dealt and hangs the reason
off a `title`. Measured on an iPhone with three hands out: seven of the
fifty-two were dead, none of them could take focus, and tapping one changed
nothing at all — no toast, no text, not a byte of DOM. The tool's answer to
"who has the ace of spades?" existed and was reachable only with a mouse.
The header's two buttons were the same, on a new dealer's first screen, and
Export CSV was greyed out with no explanation written anywhere.

`disabled` is the wrong attribute whenever there is something to say: it
drops the control out of the tab order, so a screen reader never lands on it
to hear the description, and it eats the tap on a touch screen, where the
hover that would have shown the `title` does not exist. `aria-disabled`
announces the same state and leaves the control reachable, so one capture
listener can turn the press into a sentence — in a toast, or inside a sheet
that is standing on top of the toast.

It paid for itself in the picker's keyboard too. The arrows hunted past
dealt cards because a `disabled` button cannot hold focus, and the hunting
did the exact thing the grid's no-wrap rule was written to prevent: Right
from A-spades over a dealt A-hearts landed on A-diamonds, so the column
shifted and the next press of Down walked a different suit. A cell that can
hold focus needs no hunting, and the APG asks for that inside a composite
widget anyway.

The line that answers is one line by measurement, not by taste. Its box is
318px on a Galaxy S8 at 20px of root text; the first wording drew 332px and
wrapped, shoving fifty-two targets 21px down mid-tap, and twenty-four capital
Ws draw 434px whatever the wording, so the box is what holds.

Two things the sweep found on the way. It opened the card picker by
un-hiding an overlay whose grid had never been painted, so for its whole
life it audited an empty sheet; it now opens it the way a dealer does, with
cards out and the answer showing. And the slot buttons above the grid were
named to a screen reader by the em dash they draw when empty.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
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@@ -28,7 +28,25 @@ const VIEWPORTS = [
const OVERLAYS = [
["rulings", () => document.getElementById("openRulingsBtn").click()],
["seat menu", () => SeatMenu.open(HoldemState.load(), {}, 0)],
["card picker", () => { document.getElementById("cardPickerOverlay").hidden = false; }],
// Opened the way a dealer opens it, with cards already out. This used to un-hide the
// overlay and nothing else, so the grid inside it was whatever `paint()` had last
// drawn — which on a freshly loaded page is nothing at all. For the whole life of
// this sweep the card picker was audited as an empty sheet: no slots, no fifty-two
// targets, no dealt cards, none of the three things it is made of.
["card picker", () => {
const state = HoldemState.load();
const playing = state.seats.filter(seat => seat.inHand);
if (playing[0]) playing[0].cards = ["AS", "KH"];
if (playing[1]) playing[1].cards = ["QD", "QC"];
state.board = ["7C", "2H", "TS", "", ""];
const empty = playing[2] || playing[0];
CardPicker.open(state, { onPick: () => {}, onDone: () => {} }, state.seats.indexOf(empty), 0);
// And with its answer showing. The line that says where a dealt card went is the
// one piece of this sheet that is empty until something is pressed, so pressing
// one is the only way the sweep ever sees it holding text.
const out = document.querySelector('#cardPickerGrid .pickerCard[aria-disabled="true"]');
if (out) out.click();
}],
["add chips", () => AddChips.open(HoldemState.load(), 0, () => {})],
["pot wizard", () => document.getElementById("resolvePotBtn").click()],
];