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While a chat message waits for acknowledgement, the Send button looks the same as it does with an empty draft. Following the maintainer's suggestion in #319, the button now shows a small stepped progress ring, with an accessible "sending" name and a busy state. With reduced motion the ring stays static. Draft retention and the handling of acknowledgements and refusals work as before.

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  • bun run typecheck passes.
  • Targeted draft, i18n, CSS/motion, script convention and changelog tests: 62 pass, 0 fail.
  • bun scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts passes, and its held-receipt assertion failed before the fix. It covers success and refusal, unchanged button bounds, all six palettes, reduced motion, Claude and Codex, desktop and phone, and dark and light themes.
  • I reviewed eight screenshots made from fictional demo data.

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  • New Features
    • The Send button now shows a progress indicator while a message is being sent and remains visible until the send is acknowledged.
    • Drafts clear after a successful send and remain available to retry if the send is refused.
  • Accessibility
    • The button announces when a message is sending, and its progress indicator respects reduced-motion settings.

The composer displays a stepped progress ring while a send is pending and keeps the Send control visible. Regression checks cover successful and refused sends across agent types, screen sizes, themes, palettes, and motion settings.

Changes: Composer Send Progress

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pending Send UI
src/components/Composer.tsx, src/components/Composer.css, src/lib/composerDraft.test.ts, DESIGN.md, changelog.d/composer-send-progress.md
The Send control shows a busy progress indicator while sending and remains visible during that state. Styling supports reduced motion. Tests cover draft retention, duplicate-send blocking, and send settlement. Documentation and changelog describe the progress behavior.
Send receipt regression checks
scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts
The demo can hold submit frames and dispatch success or refusal results. Browser checks cover pending state, button geometry, draft handling, and recovery across the listed configurations.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: devswha

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3390d

While a message is pending, the button does not announce the promised sending state. This is a bounded accessibility issue to fix before merge if possible.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

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Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 3 files. (3 skipped: 3… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Passed Passed checks: 4 passed
Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: showing Send progress until acknowledgement.
Description check Passed The description includes both required sections. It explains the behavior change and lists validation results, including typecheck, targeted tests, regression coverage, and screenshot review.
Linked Issues check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Review comments at @src/components/Composer.tsx:
- Line 1302: Update the Send button in Composer so its aria-label is “Sending…”
while sending and “Send message” otherwise. In DESIGN.md (line 1168), retain the
documented behavior; in changelog.d/composer-send-progress.md (line 4), describe
the changed accessible name rather than an accessible description; and in
scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts (line 237), use a locator stable across
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  • DESIGN.md
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  • src/components/Composer.tsx
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className="composer-action composer-send"
aria-label={t("Send message")}
title={t("Send message")}
title={sending ? t("Sending…") : t("Send message")}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Give the pending Send button its promised accessible name. The explicit aria-label="Send message" overrides the new “Sending…” title. The pending button therefore does not have the accessible name documented by this change.

  • src/components/Composer.tsx#L1302-L1302: change aria-label to “Sending…” while sending is true.
  • DESIGN.md#L1168-L1168: retain the stated behavior once the button implements it.
  • changelog.d/composer-send-progress.md#L4-L4: describe the changed accessible name rather than an accessible description.
  • scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts#L237-L237: use a locator stable across both names and assert the pending accessible name.
📍 Affects 4 files
  • src/components/Composer.tsx#L1302-L1302 (this comment)
  • DESIGN.md#L1168-L1168
  • changelog.d/composer-send-progress.md#L4-L4
  • scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts#L237-L237
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Review comment at @src/components/Composer.tsx at line 1302:
Update the Send button in Composer so its aria-label is “Sending…” while sending
and “Send message” otherwise. In DESIGN.md (line 1168), retain the documented
behavior; in changelog.d/composer-send-progress.md (line 4), describe the
changed accessible name rather than an accessible description; and in
scripts/composer-fit-demo-regression.ts (line 237), use a locator stable across
both names and assert the pending accessible name.

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devswha merged commit 9a224b8 into devswha:main Oct 14, 2026
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