Let a tooltip linger, and tell the screen reader what it says

A plain tooltip vanished the instant the pointer left, where M3 keeps one for
1.5s and shows only one at a time — these are popover="manual", so nothing was
closing the last one. A rich tooltip's bubble was never associated with its
trigger at all, so the explanation it exists to give was never announced; the
script now writes aria-describedby (and aria-haspopup/aria-expanded when it is
persistent) onto the focusable control in the trigger slot, and again after a
morph. Plan step 18, actions.md ACT-22, ACT-25.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qwx5USif3wFFmxtHg5U1g9
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Andreas Reinhold
2026-09-14 06:13:14 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 56d82b71f3
commit 05236ecb3a
5 changed files with 77 additions and 19 deletions
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@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
* Transient (the default): like a plain tooltip — after a short hover on a pointer that can hover,
* at once on keyboard focus, and it stays while the pointer moves onto the bubble to reach its
* actions. Persistent: a press on the trigger opens it as a light-dismiss popover.
*
* The trigger is pointed at the bubble with `aria-describedby`, so the explanation — the whole
* point of a rich tooltip — is read out with the control rather than never at all; a persistent
* one also says `aria-haspopup="dialog"` and whether it is open. The server cannot write any of
* it: the trigger comes from a slot, and only script knows which element in it takes the focus.
* A Livewire morph strips attributes the server did not render and gives the bubble a new id, so
* they are written again whenever the trigger is reached.
*/
const HOVER_DELAY_MS = 500
const LEAVE_GRACE_MS = 200
@@ -17,6 +24,28 @@ document.addEventListener('alpine:init', () => {
const wrapper = this.$el
const open = () => bubble.matches(':popover-open')
const control = () => [...wrapper.querySelectorAll('button, a[href], [tabindex]')].find((element) => !bubble.contains(element))
const describe = () => {
const trigger = control()
if (!trigger) {
return
}
trigger.setAttribute('aria-describedby', bubble.id)
if (persistent) {
trigger.setAttribute('aria-haspopup', 'dialog')
trigger.setAttribute('aria-expanded', String(open()))
}
}
describe()
bubble.addEventListener('toggle', describe)
wrapper.addEventListener('focusin', describe)
wrapper.addEventListener('pointerenter', describe)
if (persistent) {
wrapper.addEventListener('click', (event) => {
if (bubble.contains(event.target)) {