C3.1 table overflow + purge of fabricated testimonials on four live pages

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Two things: the oldest open queue defect, and a live claims exposure found by following C0.1's ratchet output.

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1. C3.1 — dense tables scroll inside themselves on phones

W2's scroll gate flagged this in August; the fix was frozen "until this wave" because it needs shared CSS.

Reproduced first, and it was worse than recorded. On fractional-cto-sow-reference a table rendered 507px wide inside a 354px column (recorded as 25px of overflow), with overflow-x: visible on the parent — no scroll container anywhere. So the whole page dragged sideways on a phone, costing the reader the text column, not just the table. first-paying-customer-operating-kit confirmed too (51px, pre-existing since W1 #428).

One mobile-scoped media query in single-post.css, which both single.html and course/single.html already load — one rule covers blog, course, and every sibling reference table. display: block is what makes a table scrollable and is the real risk; scoping it under 767px keeps the desktop auto-layout the wide tables depend on.

Verified at a true 390×844 device render: all four tables cap at the column and scroll internally, document.scrollWidth == viewport on both pages. Desktop re-checked at 1280: display: table, overflow-x: visible, full 684px column, untouched.

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2. Fabricated testimonials, live on four pages

C0.1's new ratchet reported 40 pre-existing violations, 25 of them one string syndicated across every services page. Pulling that thread found something well past a banned adjective.

data/testimonials.yaml carried four synthetic testimonials — Sarah Chen / TechStart Solutions, David Rodriguez / EcomMega, Maria Gonzalez / HealthTech Innovations, Alex Thompson / EduPlatform — with placeholder-shaped company names and unsourced round metrics ("Secured $2M Series A", "300% improvement in page load speeds", "99.8% uptime"). They rendered on the live homepage, /clients, /about-us and /use-cases.

The mechanism is the interesting part: someone had already curated hugo.toml down to the single real testimonial (Bruno Wozniak / PubNative — corroborated by a live LinkedIn profile, and the entry that feeds the Review schema). But partials/page/testimonials.html prefers the data file and only falls back to site params, so the data file silently overrode that curation in the visible render. Structured data was clean; the visible copy was not. Same defect class the schema purges of 2026-08-14 and #475 removed — this was the half nobody had swept.

Removed all four. Kept Bruno's verbatim quote and attribution; dropped his results block, three round percentages that appear nowhere in his quote and trace to no source. Restore path is documented in the file header.

Also relabelled: fractional-cto-roi-calculator presented five full-name founders with direct quotes under "Real Founder Stories … from JetThoughts clients", with no anonymisation disclaimer — and said "three stories" while showing five. Its sibling infrastructure-spending-evaluation already carries the honest form ("names changed, numbers accurate"). Relabelled as composites, count fixed.

Test plan

• bin/qtest --changed green
• bin/test (macOS leg) — 34 runs, 87 assertions, 53 screenshots, 0 failures
• Linux leg via CI. Not run locally — bin/dtest on an ARM Mac is QEMU-emulated Chrome and plants sub-pixel drift that then fails CI (.okf/build/test-gates.md)
• Note: zero screenshots moved despite removing four carousel entries, which means the visual suite does not cover the testimonial section. Logged as a coverage gap, not fixed here.

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