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Closes #463.

An attachment filename containing " terminated the data="…" attribute it was written into, so the fixture's <GreaterThan> was parsed as a start tag and a spurious element entered the DOM. Since #458 publishes a rendered report to a public Pages URL on every merge, this is a stored-injection surface rather than a local-file curiosity.

Escaping alone would have been a half-fix

stringByEscapingXMLChars maps ' to &apos;, but a browser HTML-decodes an attribute value before compiling it as JavaScript. So onclick="showText('&apos;;alert(1);&apos;')" decodes straight back to a live breakout: escaping fixes data="…", src="…" and id="…", and cannot fix a value sitting inside a JS string literal.

So this is two halves:

Escape every leaf value the seam substitutes. Not just Attachment's three, but the titles, log source, device fields and screenshot-flow sources contributed by Test, Iteration, Run, RunDestination and TestScreenshotFlow — the same seam feeds all of them, and a test title is as author-controlled as a filename. Values that are already rendered markup (SUB_TESTS, ACTIVITIES, DEVICE_RESULT, …) keep passing through untouched. Nothing in HTML.swift can enforce that split, so it now documents which of three cases a new placeholder falls into.

Stop interpolating into handlers. The five attachment templates now read the data attribute they already carry — onclick="showScreenshot(this.getAttribute('data'))" — instead of interpolating the filename into a JS string.

toggle(this, '…') and selectDevice('…', this) still interpolate, deliberately: what they pass is an IdentifierPath.identifier, the first 128 bits of a SHA-256 hex-encoded, which cannot contain a metacharacter. testEveryIdentifierReachingAScriptHandlerIsAHexDigest pins that shape so the assumption fails loudly if identifier generation ever changes.

The injection and a broken feature were the same defect

A truncated data attribute meant clicking a preview opened a prefix of the filename. Both data and the id="screenshot-…" it looks up now carry the whole name, and they still agree because getAttribute returns the decoded value.

Tests

  • SummarySeamTests.testHostileAttachmentFilenameDoesNotBreakOutOfAttribute loses its XCTExpectFailure in the same commit — an unexpected pass would otherwise fail the suite on a correct fix.
  • New HTMLEscapingTests: the hostile filename is escaped and no raw copy survives; no onclick carries attachment text; a run whose every leaf string is hostile renders escaped; identifiers reaching handlers are digests; and — guarding against over-correction — nested markup is still markup.
  • New visual/tests/injection.spec.ts: no <greaterthan> element in the DOM, the whole filename reaches the attribute, and dispatching a click previews the file it names. All three fail against the pre-fix render; behaviour.spec.ts exercised no click path through preview-icon, so the handler change was otherwise unguarded in the browser.
  • Both goldens refreshed; the diff is escaping and handler rewrites only.

Verified locally: 126 Swift tests, 0 failures (with generated .xcresult fixtures); 11 Playwright tests, 0 failures.

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  • New Features

    • Improved report accessibility with semantic navigation landmarks, descriptive labels, media alt text, iframe titles, and lazy loading.
    • Enhanced attachment previews for screenshots, GIFs, videos, text files, and links while preserving filenames and content.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved HTML escaping for attachment names, test titles, device details, log sources, and other report metadata.
    • Prevented special characters from creating unintended page elements or affecting attachment actions.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified safe handling requirements for HTML placeholder values.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for HTML escaping, accessibility, attachment previews, and injection-resistant rendering.

…#463)

An attachment filename containing `"` terminated the `data="…"` attribute it
was written into, so `<GreaterThan>` from the fixture's hostile filename was
parsed as a start tag and entered the DOM. The report is published to a public
GitHub Pages URL on every merge (#458), which makes this a stored-injection
surface rather than a local-file curiosity.

Two halves, because escaping alone is not enough:

`stringByEscapingXMLChars` now runs over every leaf value the `HTML` seam
substitutes — not just `Attachment`'s, but the titles, log source, device
fields and screenshot-flow sources that `Test`, `Iteration`, `Run`,
`RunDestination` and `TestScreenshotFlow` contribute. Values that are already
rendered markup keep passing through untouched; `HTML.swift` now documents
which case a new placeholder falls into, since nothing can enforce it.

Escaping cannot fix `onclick="showText('[[SOURCE]]')"`, though: a browser
resolves `&apos;` back to `'` before compiling the attribute as JavaScript, so
an escaped filename is still a live breakout. The five attachment handlers now
read the `data` attribute they already carry instead of interpolating anything
— `showText(this.getAttribute('data'))`. `toggle` and `selectDevice` keep
interpolating, deliberately: what they pass is an `IdentifierPath.identifier`,
a hex digest by construction, and a test pins that shape.

The escaping also repairs the feature the injection broke. A truncated `data`
attribute meant the preview opened a prefix of the filename; it now opens the
file it names.

`SummarySeamTests.testHostileAttachmentFilenameDoesNotBreakOutOfAttribute`
loses its `XCTExpectFailure` here — an unexpected pass would otherwise fail
the suite on a correct fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The report now escapes XML-sensitive placeholder values, retrieves attachment preview data through data attributes, and emits semantic and accessible markup. XCTest and Playwright coverage validates hostile filenames, metadata, DOM structure, preview behavior, and accessibility enforcement.

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Report rendering safeguards and accessibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Escape report placeholder values
Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/Models/*, Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/Protocols/HTML.swift
Attachment, test, iteration, run, destination, and screenshot-flow values are XML-escaped before HTML substitution. Placeholder categories are documented.
Update attachment preview rendering
Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/HTMLTemplates.swift, Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/Models/TestScreenshotFlow.swift
Preview handlers retrieve screenshot, GIF, video, text, and link payloads from data attributes. Media gains alternative text and lazy loading.
Update report snapshots and layout
Tests/XCTestHTMLReportTests/Snapshots/*
Snapshots reflect semantic landmarks, accessible labels, media attributes, data-based preview handlers, file-download layout, and copied preview alternative text.
Validate escaping and accessibility
Tests/XCTestHTMLReportTests/*, visual/tests/*
Tests validate hostile values, safe DOM structure, complete preview filenames, accessibility attributes, snapshot masking, and critical or serious Axe gating.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fe58b

Repeated attachment filenames can cause clicking a preview to open a different attachment, so the PR is not merge-ready until preview lookup uses a unique attachment identifier.

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  participant HTMLTemplates
  participant PreviewIcon
  participant PreviewHandler
  HTMLTemplates->>PreviewIcon: Render escaped filename in data attribute
  PreviewIcon->>PreviewHandler: Click and getAttribute('data')
  PreviewHandler->>PreviewHandler: Open the attachment preview
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes escape affected leaf values, remove filename interpolation from JavaScript, preserve identifiers, and add regression coverage for issue #463.
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…462) (#467)

`HTMLTemplates.swift` contained zero `alt=` and zero `title=` attributes,
which was the whole cause of both gating findings: image-alt (critical, six
nodes) and frame-title (serious). Four more were moderate or minor. All six
are fixed here.

- Every `<img>` carries an `alt`. Attachment and screenshot-flow images take
  the attachment's display name; the two preview panes ship `alt=""`, which
  is how a decorative placeholder declares itself, and inherit the name of
  whatever is put in them.
- Both frames are named: `#text-attachment` and the run's `#logs-iframe`.
- `#device-header` becomes an `h2`, so heading levels no longer skip h1 to h4.
- `#left-sidebar`, `#main-content` and `#right-sidebar` become `nav`, `main`
  and `aside`, which answers landmark-one-main and region together. Every
  rule and script hook is id- or class-based, so nothing else moves.
- `#file-attachment` stops being an empty `h2`. It holds a download link, not
  a section heading, so it is a `p` — and the two rules that centred it as a
  heading now name it directly.

The gate goes back to `['critical', 'serious']`, so a new critical or serious
finding fails the build; moderate and minor stay informational, which is the
level #462 prescribed. The test's name says what it asserts again.

The two rules that survive without a browser — every image has alt text,
every frame has a name — are also restated as `AccessibilitySeamTests`, so
they hold in the `test` jobs and not only in `visual`.

One knock-on: `alt` puts the attachment display name in a second place, and
that name is a divergence the modern reader already declares. The
`attachmentDisplayNames` allow-list entry now masks both sites; masking only
the text line would have let `alt` reintroduce a difference already accounted
for.

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1586-1622: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use a unique attachment identifier for preview lookup.

FILENAME is not unique in one report. The snapshots contain repeated screenshot-screenshot.png IDs. getElementById then returns the first matching element, so a preview can show a different attachment with the same filename.

Use a stable unique attachment identifier for DOM IDs and handler lookup. Keep the filename only for displayed download text and accessible labels.

  • Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/HTMLTemplates.swift#L1586-L1622: use the unique identifier for screenshot, GIF, video, and link preview mappings.
  • Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/Models/TestScreenshotFlow.swift#L48-L59: use the same unique identifier for screenshot-flow IDs.
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In `@Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/HTMLTemplates.swift` around lines 1586 -
1622, Replace filename-based DOM IDs and preview handler lookup values with the
stable unique attachment identifier across the screenshot, GIF, video, and link
templates in HTMLTemplates.swift lines 1586-1622; retain FILENAME only for
displayed download text and accessible labels. Apply the same unique identifier
to screenshot-flow IDs in TestScreenshotFlow.swift lines 48-59 so all generated
attachment references remain consistent.

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In `@Sources/XCTestHTMLReportCore/Classes/HTMLTemplates.swift`:
- Around line 1586-1622: Replace filename-based DOM IDs and preview handler
lookup values with the stable unique attachment identifier across the
screenshot, GIF, video, and link templates in HTMLTemplates.swift lines
1586-1622; retain FILENAME only for displayed download text and accessible
labels. Apply the same unique identifier to screenshot-flow IDs in
TestScreenshotFlow.swift lines 48-59 so all generated attachment references
remain consistent.

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  • Tests/XCTestHTMLReportTests/KnownLossMasker.swift
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