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Summary

• Option, item, pair, row, distractor and dropdown-option lists warn past 5 entries.
• Non-blocking, styled and announced like the single-option warning.
• Simultaneous warnings (e.g. associate pairs and distractors) announce as one message.

References

Closes #6345. Related: #6316.

Reviewer guidance

Suggested review: Full code review, then manual QA once the reviewer sets Needs QA.

• User-visible files changed: contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/views/QTIEditor/components/ValidationMessage/index.vue, contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/views/QTIEditor/constants.js, contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/views/QTIEditor/interactions/associate/Editor.vue, contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/views/QTIEditor/interactions/choice/Editor.vue, contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/views/QTIEditor/interactions/inlineChoice/Editor.vue….
• Decide whether shared ValidationMessage should keep its module-level queue, which defers every QTI warning announcement by one frame, including the existing single-option one, and lets it override an order announcement sent in that frame.
• Decide whether a closed inline choice chip with more than 5 options should show the warning, since only its open options panel does.
• With a screen reader, check that associate/match with both lists over 5 reads both warnings, and that the inline choice warning is still heard after focus moves to the new 6th option.

• No real screen reader run.

Manual QA

QA team: question editors warn past 5 list entries. Screen reader announcements are the most probable regression.

Requires: a screen reader and an exercise's Questions tab.

1. Single Choice. Make a question with 6 options. Click "Close".
   • Click "Edit". "Questions with more than 5 options can be harder for learners to follow…" is read one time.
   • Click "Delete choice" until 1 option is left. Only "This question has only one answer option…" is read, one time.
   • Click "Add choice" until there are 6 options. The more-than-5 warning is read one time.
   • Click "Delete choice" on option 6. Nothing is read.
2. Associate and Match. Add 6 pairs or rows and 6 distractors. Each list shows its warning until it has 5.
3. Inline choice. Make dropdowns with 6 and 5 options. Only the 6-option panel shows the warning.

Look out for:

• Reopen an Associate question with 6 pairs and 6 distractors. Look out for one of the two warnings not read.

Ordering, Multi select, "Show answers" and saving were verified.

Evidence

Single choice: 5 → 6 → 5 options

Step	Screenshot
5 options: no warning
6 options: warning above "Answer options"
Closed with 6 options: saved, no error

Single choice announcements: 2 → 1 → 6 → 5 options, close and reopen

single-choice-announcements.webm

• Live region: each warning read once; none for a 6th option removed or closed in the same frame; the next 6th option is read.

More captures (27)

Step	Screenshot
Multi select, 6 options: warning below "Choose a correct answer"
Multi select, two correct: warning only
Multi select, Show answers: no warning
Ordering, 6 items, Show answers: no warning
Ordering, saved: no error
Associate, 6 pairs: pairs warning
Associate, 6 pairs and 6 distractors: both warnings
Associate, Show answers: no pairs warning
Match, 6 rows: rows warning
Match, 6 rows and 6 distractors: both warnings
Match, distractor 6 deleted: rows warning stays
Match, closed: no warnings
Match, Show answers: no warning
Inline choice panel, 5 options: no warning
Inline choice panel, 6 options: dropdown warning
Inline choice, second dropdown at 5: no warning
Inline choice panel, empty option error
Inline choice panel, duplicate error plus warning
Inline choice, reopened after undo: dropdown-level error
Inline choice, closed and saved
Single choice, 1 option: single-option warning
Single choice, reopened with 6 options: options warning

Single choice 1 → 2 → 1 → 6 options:

s3-single-choice-1-2-1-6-options.webm

Multi select close, save, reopen:

multi-select-close-save-reopen.webm

Ordering 5 → 6 → 5 items:

ordering-add-6th-remove-to-5.webm

Associate, delete distractor then pair:

s5-associate-remove-distractor-then-pair.webm

Inline choice panel add, remove, reorder:

inline-panel-add-remove-reorder.webm

AI usage

Claude Code wrote the warnings and tests; verified with editor Jest suites, pre-commit, and headless-Chromium screenshots plus axe.

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