diff --git a/tests/holdem/uiAudit.js b/tests/holdem/uiAudit.js
index 98b270d..0c1bca8 100644
--- a/tests/holdem/uiAudit.js
+++ b/tests/holdem/uiAudit.js
@@ -368,8 +368,18 @@ const LayoutAudit = {
             : [...document.querySelectorAll("*")];
 
         nodes.forEach(el => {
-            if (el.children.length > 0) return;               // leaf text only
-            const text = (el.textContent || "").trim();
+            // An element's *own* text, not its descendants' — they get measured on
+            // their own turn, against their own colour.
+            //
+            // This used to be "leaf elements only", which quietly stopped measuring
+            // anything the moment a child was added to it. The undo control went that
+            // way the day a <kbd> was appended to it: its label became invisible to
+            // this check, with no sign that anything had changed.
+            const text = [...el.childNodes]
+                .filter(node => node.nodeType === 3)
+                .map(node => node.textContent)
+                .join(" ")
+                .trim();
             if (!text) return;
             const rect = el.getBoundingClientRect();
             if (rect.width === 0 || rect.height === 0) return;
@@ -390,11 +400,18 @@ const LayoutAudit = {
                 unmeasured.push(`${this.describe(el)} :: faded (opacity ${opacity}), contrast not checked`);
                 return;
             }
-            // Decoration is exempt by definition: the watermark on the felt is meant
-            // to be barely there, and holding it to a reading threshold would mean
-            // making it not a watermark. Marked aria-hidden so screen readers skip it
-            // too, which is the same claim expressed where it also does some good.
-            if (el.closest("[aria-hidden='true']")) return;
+            // aria-hidden used to exempt text here, on the grounds that decoration
+            // marked for screen readers was decoration for everyone. Those are two
+            // different questions and the answer differs: the bet chips on the felt are
+            // aria-hidden because their amounts are already announced by the seat and
+            // the action bar, and repeating them would be noise — but they are exactly
+            // what a sighted dealer reads the felt for, and this check had stopped
+            // looking at them. Hiding something from one audience is not a claim about
+            // whether the other audience can read it.
+            //
+            // Nothing is exempt now. If something genuinely decorative turns up, it
+            // should say so in its own words rather than borrowing an attribute that
+            // means something else.
 
             const fgRaw = this.parseColour(style.color);
             if (!fgRaw) return;