Changing "Default Pinned Models" in admin settings had no effect for anyone who had already opened Open WebUI once. The sidebar copied the admin default into that user's own settings the first time it rendered and saved it to the server, which marked them as having customized their pins, so every later change to the default was ignored for them. Merely loading the page was enough, the user never had to touch a pin.
The default is now resolved for display only, through a shared store that falls back to the admin list while the user has no pins of their own, the same way default models already work. Nothing is written to the user's settings until they actually pin, unpin or reorder something, at which point their choice takes over for good. Unpinning everything still persists an empty list rather than snapping back to the default.
Users whose settings were already overwritten by the old behaviour keep that copy, since a stored pin list cannot be told apart from a deliberate one.
Fixes a drag-reorder path that mixed sidebar positions with stored ones, and stops the sidebar section reopening itself after any unrelated settings change.
- Replace incorrect aria-roledescription='model-item' with role='option' and aria-selected on ModelItem.svelte. The previous attribute was not a valid ARIA role description and provided no useful information to screen readers.
- Add contextual aria-label to each model item button (e.g. 'Select GPT-4 model') instead of just the raw model name, making the action clear to screen reader users.
- Add role='listbox' and aria-label='Available models' to the scrollable model list container in Selector.svelte so screen readers announce the container's purpose and navigate items correctly.
- Make the model selector trigger button's aria-label dynamic: it now announces 'Selected model: GPT-4' when a model is selected, falling back to 'Select a model' when nothing is selected.
- Add aria-label to the eject (unload) button in ModelItem.svelte so screen readers announce its purpose.
- Add aria-label to the cancel download button in Selector.svelte with the specific model name being canceled.
- Improve model profile image alt text from generic 'Model' to contextual '{{modelName}} profile image'.
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