# Website state — 2026-09-16

Milestone 1 implements nine static pages, shared design tokens, responsive
navigation, documentation layout, an original rack illustration, roadmap/status
system, Fedora build guide and changelog. No browser audio workstation is present.
The current visual theme uses a light silver/grey page surface with colorful
status accents; the rack illustration and code blocks retain dark hardware contrast.

## Product evidence

The application reference is version 0.1.0, commit e5a47e3, local tag v0.1.0.
README, BUILDING, ARCHITECTURE, DEVELOPMENT, CHANGELOG and CMakeLists were inspected.
Seven Markdown reference snapshots are included in docs. The application
repository was not modified. Its test results are attributed to that project,
not represented as freshly run website checks.

## Website assets and interactions

- Original mark in assets/logo.svg and favicon.svg.
- Original assets/rack-diagram.svg and a responsive HTML signal-flow diagram.
- Keyboard-operable mobile menu with expanded state and Escape dismissal.
- Device category filters with visible pressed state and result announcements.
- Command copying with success/failure feedback when the Clipboard API is usable.
- Native expandable troubleshooting sections.
- Core reading and navigation work without JavaScript. No external assets load.

## Validation

- Internal-link check: 9 HTML pages; 218 local page, document, asset and anchor references passed. No broken links remain.
- Browser: Chromium tested every page at 320, 375, 768, 1024, 1440 and 1920 pixels (54 page/viewport combinations), with no horizontal page overflow or missing images.
- Accessibility: one H1 per page, image alt attributes, keyboard menu activation, expanded state, Tab navigation, Escape/focus return, skip link, keyboard filters, native details, live announcements and reduced motion checked.
- All nine pages passed 200% root text enlargement at 375 pixels. This check caught a homepage grid overflow; grid sizing and heading wrapping were fixed and the suite passed on rerun.
- Clipboard success and denied-write fallback were exercised. Copying does not hide or replace command text.
- All pages passed JavaScript-disabled navigation/readability checks. All ten devices stay visible without JavaScript.
- Direct file-URL navigation from home to product passed.
- Tested over a local static server rooted at release/public_html, using the actual staged deployment files. No HTTP failures, JavaScript errors or external asset requests were observed.
- Desktop/mobile homepage and desktop documentation screenshots were visually inspected.
- Screen-reader behavior, Firefox/Safari, physical mobile devices and the actual cPanel host were not tested. These checks are not an accessibility certification.

## Deployment and limitations

Upload the contents of the prepared cPanel archive to the target document root;
see DEPLOYMENT.md. No live deployment was performed. No production domain has
been supplied, so canonical and og:url metadata are omitted and sitemap.xml has
no entries until the confirmed origin is provided to the packaging tool.

No public application repository or packaged binary is available in the reference.
There are no fake source/download links. Device faces, routing, sequencer and
format descriptions are labelled as planned. Device-specific bitmap artwork is
deferred; this foundation uses small original vector and HTML diagrams.

## Recommended next website work

1. Confirm the production domain and generate origin-specific metadata/sitemap.
2. Supply a public source URL when the application repository is published.
3. Update statuses only after subsequent application phases have documented tests.
4. Add genuine application screenshots when they help explain implemented behavior.
5. Validate the uploaded site on the actual cPanel host and with assistive technology.

## File inventory

- Pages: index.html, product.html, devices.html, architecture.html, roadmap.html, docs.html, building.html, changelog.html, download.html.
- Shared assets: styles.css, script.js, favicon.svg, assets/logo.svg, assets/rack-diagram.svg.
- Crawl metadata: robots.txt and sitemap.xml (production origin pending).
- Maintainer documentation: root README.md and CHANGELOG.md; docs/DEPLOYMENT.md and this file.
- Application snapshots: docs/README.md, BUILDING.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, DEVELOPMENT.md, CHANGELOG.md, CONTRIBUTING.md and VERSIONING.md.
- Optional local tools: maintenance/check_links.py, browser-check.cjs and package.py.
- Deliverables: release/public_html/ and release/rivet-website-cpanel.zip.
- The master build prompt and protected metadata directories were not changed.