Fixes

utils/compile_bible.py

@@ -588,8 +588,21 @@ def render_inline(nodes, book, chapter, out):
         elif kind == "verse":
             # Trailing space keeps the number off the text before any CSS
             # lands; style .v with padding and it stays correct either way.
-            out.append('<span class="v" id="%s">%s</span> ' % (
-                verse_id(chapter, node["label"]), esc(node["label"])))
+            #
+            # A control, said here rather than by a pass over the page once it
+            # has landed. role is what announces it and what earns Reboot's
+            # [role=button] pointer cursor, tabindex is what puts it in the tab
+            # order, and the label is what a screen reader says in place of a
+            # bare number. All three are true of every verse in the corpus and
+            # none of them depends on anything only the browser knows, so
+            # there is nothing here for a script to work out: app.js used to
+            # set them on load, after every htmx swap and after every history
+            # restore, walking a whole book each time. The click itself never
+            # needed that pass -- it is delegated at #content in base.njk.
+            label = esc(node["label"])
+            out.append('<span class="v" id="%s" role="button" tabindex="0" '
+                       'aria-label="Verse %s, options">%s</span> '
+                       % (verse_id(chapter, node["label"]), label, label))
         elif kind == "noteref":
             n = node["id"].replace("FN", "")
             out.append('<a class="noteref" id="fnref%s_%s" href="#fn%s_%s">'