diff --git a/apps/web/src/components/Toast.tsx b/apps/web/src/components/Toast.tsx
index 022447d..64d5983 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/components/Toast.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/src/components/Toast.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { createContext, useCallback, useContext, useRef, useState } from 'react'
 /**
  * App-wide toast notifications (issue #130). One provider near the root owns
  * the stack; `useToast()` hands out a fire-and-forget `showToast`. Toasts are
- * announced politely (`role="status"` on the stack container), stack bottom
+ * announced politely (`aria-live` on the stack container), stack bottom
  * center above the footer, and dismiss themselves — clicking one dismisses
  * it early. The plugin host's `ui.toast` capability feeds the same stack.
  */
@@ -49,8 +49,11 @@ export function ToastProvider({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }): Reac
       {children}
       {/* The live region exists permanently, so screen readers pick up
           toasts added to it; individual toasts must not carry their own
-          role="status" (a region appearing WITH its content isn't read). */}
-      <div className="toast-stack" role="status" aria-live="polite">
+          role="status" (a region appearing WITH its content isn't read).
+          Deliberately aria-live WITHOUT role="status": the region is
+          global and always mounted, and a second status role broke every
+          page-scoped getByRole('status') locator (legal.spec, CI). */}
+      <div className="toast-stack" aria-live="polite">
         {toasts.map((toast) => (
           <div
             key={toast.id}