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+import { render } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { THIRD_PARTY_STATUS_BADGE } from "../../../playwright/axe-scope";
+
+import { Footer } from "./footer";
+
+// The hole the axe exclusion opened, closed.
+//
+// `apps/www/playwright/axe-scope.ts` excludes the Phare status-badge iframes from the accessibility
+// audit, because axe walks INTO frames and a violation inside a vendor's cross-origin document is not
+// something we can fix — it just reds the whole suite, ~55 tests at once, three times in two days.
+//
+// That exclusion is right, but `.exclude()` drops the element AND its subtree, so axe no longer checks
+// the one thing about those iframes that IS ours: the `title` on the element itself. Delete the title
+// tomorrow and the suite stays green, having been told not to look. An exemption is only as safe as
+// whatever replaces what it gave up — this is that replacement.
+describe("footer status badge", () => {
+  it("gives every status-badge iframe a title, which axe no longer checks for us", () => {
+    const { container } = render(<Footer />);
+    const badges = container.querySelectorAll(THIRD_PARTY_STATUS_BADGE);
+
+    // Anti-vacuity: if the selector stopped matching — a vendor change, a moved embed — this test would
+    // pass by finding nothing, exactly when it most needs to fail. Two variants: light and dark.
+    expect(badges.length).toBe(2);
+
+    for (const badge of badges) {
+      expect(badge.getAttribute("title")?.trim()).toBeTruthy();
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("uses the same selector the audit excludes, so the two cannot drift apart", () => {
+    // If the exclusion were widened to `iframe` or narrowed to one theme variant, this test would keep
+    // asserting the old shape and the gap would reopen silently. Sharing the constant is what prevents
+    // that: the thing we exempt and the thing we guard are one string.
+    expect(THIRD_PARTY_STATUS_BADGE).toContain("status.webhook.co");
+    const { container } = render(<Footer />);
+    expect(container.querySelectorAll("iframe").length).toBe(
+      container.querySelectorAll(THIRD_PARTY_STATUS_BADGE).length,
+    );
+  });
+});