Fighter90/career-ops-ui v1.41.0

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[1.41.0] — 2026-05-18

WS2 — senior UX/usability audit + cross-cutting focus-management fix.

A 10+ yr heuristic audit (Nielsen × WCAG 2.2 AA × project conventions) of
all 17 routes produced a 40-finding, severity-ranked queue
(.planning/.../UX-AUDIT.md); HIGH→MEDIUM→LOW are now shipped one fix per
release. This release lands the #1 cross-cutting HIGH.

🐛 Fixes

• fix(a11y): move focus to the new view on every route change — router.js render() replaced #content on each hashchange but never moved focus, so keyboard / screen-reader users stayed on the destroyed node and lost their place (WCAG 2.4.3 Focus Order / 4.1.3 Status Messages — cross-cutting, affected all 17 screens). New focusNewView(content) focuses the new view's first h1/.page-title (concise SR announcement + correct focus order), making the heading focusable (tabindex=-1) if needed and falling back to #content. The very first paint is skipped so it never fights the skip-link. Wired on both the success and error render paths. Verified live: after nav, document.activeElement is the new view's H1.page-title.

🧪 Tests

• test(router): focus-management static guarantees — 4 cases in router.test.mjs (helper defined, heading-target + content fallback, first-paint skip guard, ≥2 call sites). 631 → 635.

📝 Documentation

• .planning/.../UX-AUDIT.md — full 40-finding audit + prioritized fix queue + per-release ship grouping (v1.42 → v1.51). Drives the remaining WS2 iterations.

Verification

$ npm run test:ci
# 635 / 635 · ✓ no .also( leftovers · ✓ CHANGELOG parity: all 8 locales at v1.41.0
# Playwright: #/dashboard → #/config → #/tracker · activeElement = new H1.page-title · 0 console errors