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💡 What is the current behavior?

In Angular applications, initial ARIA attribute bindings can trigger Stencil @Watch handlers before the lazy component instance is initialized. This can cause runtime errors and prevent attributes such as aria-label and aria-level from being forwarded to the component’s internal interactive element.

GitHub Issue Number: #2716
Internal tracked: EIX-220

🆕 What is the new behavior?

  • Replaces native ARIA @Watch handlers with one shared, attribute-filtered MutationObserver, avoiding the unsafe Stencil initialization path without changing the Stencil runtime or enabling initializeNextTick.
  • Preserves initial and dynamic ARIA forwarding, including removals, disconnects and reconnects. Updates are applied in the next microtask and batched per component.
  • Uses weak registrations and tears down the shared observer when unused, preventing retained component references.
  • Adds direct mixin, lifecycle, memory, accessibility and Angular regression coverage.
  • Preserves component-specific host semantics, including the tablist role used by ix-tabs.

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  • 🦮 Accessibility (a11y) features were implemented
  • 🗺️ Internationalization (i18n) - no hard coded strings
  • 📲 Responsiveness - components handle viewport changes and content overflow gracefully
  • 📕 Add or update a Storybook story — not required; no visual or usage changes
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  • 🧪 Unit tests were added/updated and pass (pnpm test)
  • 📸 Visual regression tests were added/updated and pass (not required; rendered appearance is unchanged)
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  • Accessibility Improvements
    • Improved ARIA label and level handling for nested Angular menus, including dynamic updates.
    • Preserved custom ix-tabs roles and labels while maintaining internal tablist semantics.
    • Improved ARIA attribute inheritance and synchronization across menu items and other components.
    • Preserved accessibility attributes when badges switch between link and standalone modes.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved component initialization and cleanup to keep accessibility state consistent.
  • Tests
    • Added regression coverage for dynamic ARIA updates, disconnected components, and tab accessibility behavior.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds shared, batched ARIA mutation observation, updates inherited ARIA lifecycle handling, preserves the tabs tablist role, adds component regressions, and validates dynamic Angular menu initialization.

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ARIA accessibility behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared ARIA observer
packages/core/src/components/utils/a11y.ts, packages/core/src/components/utils/internal/mixins/accessibility/aria-attribute-observer.ts
Exports the ARIA attribute list and adds shared registration, batching, suppression, flushing, cleanup, and error reporting.
Inherited ARIA synchronization
packages/core/src/components/utils/internal/mixins/accessibility/inherit-aria-attributes.mixin.ts, packages/core/src/components/utils/internal/mixins/accessibility/test/*
Replaces Stencil watchers with shared mutation observation. Lifecycle, reconnect, removal, filtering, and error-isolation tests cover the new behavior.
Component lifecycle and role integration
packages/core/src/components/badge/badge.tsx, packages/core/src/components/menu-item/menu-item.tsx, packages/core/src/components/menu-item/test/*, packages/core/src/components/popover/popover.tsx, packages/core/src/components/tabs/tabs.tsx, packages/core/src/components/tabs/test/*
Components call inherited lifecycle methods. Badge reads host ARIA attributes through the mixin. Tabs preserves its internal tablist role. Component tests cover observer reuse, garbage collection, dynamic attributes, and role preservation.
Angular menu regression coverage
packages/angular-test-app/src/app/app.component.spec.ts, .changeset/fix-angular-menu-aria.md
Adds a dynamic nested menu fixture and verifies hydration, runtime errors, and category ARIA attributes. Adds the patch changeset.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2d409

The PR changes ARIA forwarding lifecycle behavior, but unresolved edge cases can leave host and internal ARIA state inconsistent or alter consumer-owned attribute removal behavior. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DynamicMenuComponent
  participant MenuItem
  participant MutationObserver
  participant InheritAriaAttributesMixin
  DynamicMenuComponent->>MenuItem: update aria-label and aria-level
  MenuItem->>MutationObserver: register host for ARIA mutations
  MutationObserver->>InheritAriaAttributesMixin: deliver batched mutations
  InheritAriaAttributesMixin->>MenuItem: forward or remove inherited attributes
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  • siemens/ix#2573: Both changes modify menu-item.tsx and use InheritAriaAttributesMixin.
  • siemens/ix#2612: Both changes modify inherit-aria-attributes.mixin.ts.
  • siemens/ix#2666: Both changes cover ARIA inheritance, observation utilities, lifecycle handling, and Tabs.
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@danielleroux danielleroux changed the title fix: use custom observer to prevent lifecycle issues of stencil fix: use custom observer to prevent lifecycle issues of lazy components Aug 20, 2026

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Inline comments:
In @.changeset/fix-angular-menu-aria.md:
- Line 5: Update the changeset summary to describe the consumer-visible
outcome—reliable forwarding of dynamic ARIA attribute changes—rather than the
internal microtask batching implementation, while retaining the fixes for
Angular menu initialization errors and ix-tabs role behavior.

In `@packages/core/src/components/menu-item/test/menu-item.ct.ts`:
- Around line 30-52: Update the regressionTest setup around the
window.MutationObserver replacement and getAriaObserverCount assignment to save
both original values, then wrap the test assertions in try/finally and restore
each global in finally, including when assertions fail. Keep the observer-count
instrumentation behavior unchanged during the test.

In
`@packages/core/src/components/utils/internal/mixins/accessibility/aria-attribute-observer.ts`:
- Around line 112-134: Replace the boolean-style suppression tracking used by
runWithoutAriaAttributeObservation with a per-host nesting counter. Increment
the host’s count before callback execution, decrement it in the finally block,
and remove the entry only when the count reaches zero; preserve the existing
dispatchMutations suppression check and mutation flushing behavior.

In
`@packages/core/src/components/utils/internal/mixins/accessibility/inherit-aria-attributes.mixin.ts`:
- Around line 25-29: Document the public contract member
readAriaAttributesFromHost and the LifecycleWithInheritAriaAttributesMixin
addition with JSDoc, including the appropriate `@since` tags. State that
readAriaAttributesFromHost reads matched attributes from the host and that
a11yHostAttributes also removes those matched attributes; apply the same
documentation requirement to the related declarations in the referenced range.
- Around line 136-167: Remove `#patchAriaAttributeRemoval` and its
hostElement.removeAttribute monkey patch, relying on the existing
MutationObserver to synchronize removals across all DOM removal APIs. If
synchronous handling is required at a specific call site, invoke
flushAriaAttributeMutations there; otherwise preserve the current
observer-driven behavior without replacing consumer-owned DOM methods.
- Around line 188-207: Update the reconnect handling around
`#ariaAttributesBeforeDisconnect` and _updateInheritedAriaAttribute so newly
forwarded role or aria-* attributes are removed from the host after being
inherited, while preserving unrelated host attributes and existing
synchronization behavior. Add a regression test covering attributes added while
menu-item or popover is disconnected and verifying they exist only on the
internal inherited element after reconnect.

In
`@packages/core/src/components/utils/internal/mixins/accessibility/test/inherit-aria-attributes.mixin.spec.ts`:
- Around line 184-215: Add a test covering the ignored-attribute branch in
`#handleAriaMutations`: override getIgnoredAriaAttributes to return ['role'], set
the host role, notify the mutation observer, and assert inheritAriaAttributes
remains unchanged, then clean up the component.
- Around line 10-12: Update the core test-runner references in CONTRIBUTING.md,
ARCHITECTURE.md, and .github/copilot-instructions.md from Jest to Vitest, noting
that packages/core uses Vitest and packages/core/vitest-setup.ts registers
`@testing-library/jest-dom/vitest`. Leave the test implementation unchanged.
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@nuke-ellington nuke-ellington added this to the 5.2.1 milestone Aug 21, 2026
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