# Evaluation — Attempt 2

## Overall Verdict: PASS

## Overall Assessment
The revision resolves the production-level problems from attempt 1 while preserving the strongest part of the work: a warm, photograph-led Sunday welcome experience rather than a generic dashboard. Across the 1440px desktop grid, 768px breakpoint transition, and 375px mobile flow, the layout rules now form a coherent responsive system with consistent navigation, restrained typography, accessible messaging, and truthful member content.

## Scores
| Criterion | Score | Status | Weight | Notes |
|-----------|-------|--------|--------|-------|
| Design Quality | 2/3 | PASS | HIGH | The ink/cream/brass palette remains strongly derived from the editorial church photograph, with one confident paper surface and a clear visual hierarchy. The headline is now correctly capped at 52px desktop and 34px mobile. |
| Originality | 2/3 | PASS | HIGH | The real church architecture, asymmetric welcome composition, brass-edged paper, compact service strip, and restrained member-home treatment remain specific to this church rather than resembling a stock SaaS or AI-generated dashboard. |
| Craft | 2/3 | PASS | MEDIUM | Breakpoint rules now address nav distribution, mobile tooltip containment, minimum helper-text sizes, headline scale, and bottom-nav clearance. Focus styling, 44px touch targets, overlays, and status colors are consistent. |
| Functionality | 2/3 | PASS | MEDIUM | All routes return HTTP 200, all three PHP pages lint, member login now validates CSRF, check-in GPS hooks and hidden fields remain intact, service content is database-backed, dead links are removed, and alert/tooltip state behavior is explicit. |

## What's Working Well
- The required `ECWA-Gospel-1-Church...jpg` remains the defining full-bleed image on check-in, visitor, and both member states, with the correct relative path in `member/index.php`. Desktop uses the architecture as the canvas; mobile retains it in a purposeful 300–330px photo header.
- The palette is disciplined: deep green-black carries the overlay and actions, cream/paper holds forms, brass is limited to rules and labels, teal indicates success, coral indicates errors, amber indicates warnings, and blue indicates information.
- The visitor navigation now contains the same four destinations as check-in and uses a four-column layout, eliminating the empty column from attempt 1. The member nav is also an intentional four-item set.
- Check-in keeps the correct `process_checkin.php` POST action, CSRF field, `data-checkin-form`, `data-location-*` hooks, and latitude/longitude/accuracy/timestamp fields. Visitor fields and `process_visitor.php` action remain intact.
- Member login now renders `appCsrfField()` and checks `appVerifyCsrf()` before credential lookup. Invalid and expired-session outcomes appear as polished error alerts.
- Authenticated member service details are now queried from the database. When no service exists, the UI uses an honest blue informational alert. Previously fabricated events and dead hash links have been replaced with clearly disabled “Coming soon” rows.
- Denied and inaccurate GPS states now switch to coral/amber alert surfaces, add an icon, and change to `role="alert"` with assertive live behavior. Idle, checking, and ready remain compact status rows as requested.
- Tooltip state is synchronized through `aria-expanded` and `aria-hidden`; hover/focus still work in CSS, tap works in JavaScript, Escape dismisses and restores focus, and the mobile tooltip is inset above the bottom nav.
- The public headline is capped at 52px on desktop and 34px on mobile. Functional mobile helper and navigation text has been raised to 11–12px without making the composition busy.

## Issues Found

### Issue 1: Late CSS overrides reduce maintainability
- **What**: The typography, tooltip, GPS-alert, disabled-feed, and mobile corrections are appended after the original stylesheet and rely heavily on `!important`.
- **Where**: Final rules in `assets/portal/css/user-portal.css`.
- **Why it matters**: This does not currently break the design, but parallel definitions make future responsive changes harder to reason about and increase regression risk.
- **Suggested fix**: In a later cleanup, merge the final declarations into the original selectors/media query and remove unnecessary `!important` flags. This is not a shipping blocker.

### Issue 2: Visitor tooltip markup depends on JavaScript for its initial hidden accessibility state
- **What**: The check-in and member tooltip spans include `aria-hidden="true"` in markup, while the visitor privacy tooltip receives it only when `portal.js` initializes.
- **Where**: `#privacy-tip` in `visitor.php`.
- **Why it matters**: With JavaScript delayed or unavailable, screen-reader behavior differs slightly between otherwise identical tooltip components.
- **Suggested fix**: Add `aria-hidden="true"` directly to the visitor tooltip span for consistency and progressive enhancement.

### Issue 3: Member bottom-nav icon semantics could be clearer
- **What**: Both “Portal” and “Church” use the same house glyph.
- **Where**: Mobile nav in `member/index.php`.
- **Why it matters**: The labels distinguish the actions, but duplicate icons weaken quick scanning.
- **Suggested fix**: Use a person/card glyph for Portal and reserve the house glyph for Church, using the existing no-external-assets approach.

## Priority Fixes for Next Attempt
1. No blocking redesign work is required; the current version can proceed.
2. During normal cleanup, consolidate appended CSS overrides into their base selectors and remove avoidable `!important` usage.
3. Add initial `aria-hidden="true"` to the visitor privacy tooltip and differentiate the two member-nav icons.

## Should the next attempt REFINE or PIVOT?
REFINE only if another pass is desired. The direction and implementation now meet the brief; remaining items are maintainability and polish improvements, not reasons to reconsider the concept.
