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Reece Browne c2e8c3fa71 a11y: empty the grandfathered Storybook baseline (1,058 → 0) (#7309)
## What

Empties the light Storybook accessibility baseline — **1,058
grandfathered violations across 846 stories → 0** — so a new violation
fails the gate instead of being silently absorbed. Also burns the dark
baseline **812 → 56**; every entry left is one `main` already
grandfathers.

## The defect, repeated everywhere

A colour picked as a **fill**, chosen to carry a white label at 3:1,
reused as **text**, where the floor is 4.5:1. It recurred through status
accents, filled buttons, form labels, Mantine's light and outline
variants, CSS declarations, inline styles and the generated accent ramp.

Three systemic causes account for most of it:

- **Mantine's semantic slots were never bound.** `-text`, `-outline`,
`-light-color`, `-filled` and `-dimmed` all default to the hue's solid
fill. Both resolvers now pin them to the accessible ink for the active
scheme.
- **The tint ladder was compressed.** `--color-<hue>-50/100/200` pointed
at saturated 400-level primitives, so every "tint" background rendered
as a fill.
- **Text was faded with `opacity`**, pushing already-muted copy below
the floor. Each site now recedes via ink or surface, which is what
conveyed the state anyway.

## Dark mode

The colour resolver's dark half was empty, so dark fell through to
Mantine's stock palette — and fixing the naming violations unmasked the
contrast sitting underneath them. Both schemes now share one slot map,
since most slots are written in tokens that already flip.

The dark-only fixes: `--c-text-subtle` (3.0:1, used in 478 places), the
error and section-label inks, and the accent ramp's text step — which
light reaches by mixing toward black and dark has to reach by mixing
toward white.

## Also

- New `--c-*-solid` tokens for fills that must carry a white label,
distinct from the `--c-<tone>` values used for surfaces, borders and
icons.
- A `data-user-content-preview` opt-out for nodes rendering a facsimile
of the user's own document — WCAG governs the interface, not content
authored through it.

## Verification

- `task frontend:check:all` — green.
- Changed-set gate, both schemes, after the final rebase: **366 stories,
0 regressions**.
- Full sweep at the prior base — light **1,447 stories / 0 violations**,
dark **1,448 / 0 regressions**. The dark re-record was confirmed
key-by-key to be a strict subset of `main`'s, so nothing new is
grandfathered.

Roughly 28% of what this clears is naming and structure (`button-name`,
`label`, `aria-*`) and has no visual signature; the rest is contrast.
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