The honeycomb is decorative: one aria-hidden layer with pointer-events none that adds no role or tab stop. Children render above it in their own layer and stay fully interactive — the pointer is read from the root as events bubble and mapped to a tile by geometry, never captured. Lighting is never the only signal for anything. Under reduced motion the hover trail and idle ripples are off and the honeycomb is a still pattern; ripples also pause off-screen, in hidden tabs and while the pointer is over the box. Rendered tiles are capped at 720, growing past the cap rather than adding nodes.