Count

Count has no keys of its own and is never focusable. A caller who makes it a link or button through render brings that element's own keys, and its target size with them.

What axe won't catch, from the contract, each with how this component meets it:

• Everything the eye is told, the ear is told, for every shape each prop accepts: the count is read as shown, as part of the text around it; "—" is aria-hidden and the ear hears "Unknown" in its place (CR-5). A status color tells the eye nothing the caller's words beside it don't say ("Delays 3"), and the review holds the stories to it (CR-9).
• Every landmark and named region has an accessible name: none here; the root is not a landmark or region.
• Every default label can be overridden: unknownLabel.
• Every shape the type accepts renders, in every variant: children is a ReactNode; a number, a string, an element and a list each render, 0 and '0' are counts and not unknown (CR-4), and Count.test.tsx renders each shape. The colour stories give a number or a string.
• A hidden copy kept for animation is aria-hidden, and a collapsed region is inert: none here; nothing animates or collapses. The "—" is aria-hidden because the words speak for it, not for animation.
• Native semantics first: a plain <span>, with no role and no ARIA beyond aria-hidden on the "—"; the caller's own element through render.
• Focus moves in reading order and returns on close: Count takes no focus and opens nothing.
• Every target is at least size.target-min square: no target; Count is not pressed. The chip or tab it sits in is the target, and meets the size itself.
• Loops stop when the system asks for less motion: none here; Count has no motion.

Every word Count shows comes from the caller, as children, but for the one it announces when there is no count.

unknown is the key packages/perron/src/locale/en.ts already has for Stat and FactList, with its Danish, Swedish and Norwegian; the build adds Count to its JSDoc line and adds no key.

With no count, Count shows "—" in color.text.tertiary on color.surface.inset, whatever its color, aria-hidden, followed by the owned string "Unknown" in VisuallyHidden, as Stat and FactList do. Content design writes "—" for unknown and the brand never shows a guess, so Count shows neither 0 nor nothing when the data is missing; a screen reader skips or spells a bare "—", so the ear gets "Delays Unknown". An unknown count says nothing good or bad, so it drops its status tint; color.text.tertiary is allowed for the "—" of an unknown figure, always next to stronger text, as Accessibility lists it. A caller who wants no pill at all renders no Count.

For a caller using the component, with the reason. Each row is a rule: a must row's Don't is never right, a should row's needs a reason, and Checked by says what catches the Don't in a caller's code.