diff --git a/app/src/androidTest/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/WorldClockInstrumentedTest.kt b/app/src/androidTest/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/WorldClockInstrumentedTest.kt
index ee70c42..a8ece3b 100644
--- a/app/src/androidTest/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/WorldClockInstrumentedTest.kt
+++ b/app/src/androidTest/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/WorldClockInstrumentedTest.kt
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import android.content.Intent
 import androidx.compose.ui.semantics.SemanticsActions
 import androidx.compose.ui.test.SemanticsNodeInteraction
 import androidx.compose.ui.test.junit4.v2.createEmptyComposeRule
-import androidx.compose.ui.test.onNodeWithContentDescription
 import androidx.compose.ui.test.onNodeWithText
 import androidx.compose.ui.test.performClick
 import androidx.compose.ui.test.performTextInput
@@ -94,7 +93,9 @@ class WorldClockInstrumentedTest {
 
         val home = java.time.ZoneId.systemDefault().id.substringAfterLast('/')
 
-        composeTestRule.onNodeWithContentDescription(home, substring = true).assertExists()
+        // The face itself is hidden from TalkBack; the readout and caption
+        // under it are one merged node that names the city.
+        composeTestRule.onNodeWithText(home, substring = true).assertExists()
     }
 
     /** §5.11 #2 */
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/worldclock/WorldClockFace.kt b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/worldclock/WorldClockFace.kt
index 674d3fa..2c9ea05 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/worldclock/WorldClockFace.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/worldclock/WorldClockFace.kt
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.drawscope.DrawScope
 import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.drawscope.Stroke
 import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.drawscope.rotate
 import androidx.compose.ui.semantics.clearAndSetSemantics
-import androidx.compose.ui.semantics.contentDescription
 import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
 import androidx.graphics.shapes.Morph
 import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.domain.worldclock.AnalogFace
@@ -40,17 +39,15 @@ import java.time.LocalTime
  * colour, space and motion" means. M7 refused a decorative arc on the stopwatch
  * for the mirror-image reason: there, there was nothing to be a fraction of.
  *
- * Scheme tokens only, no literal colour. The semantics are set outright — an
- * analog face has nothing a screen reader can read off it — and deliberately
- * **not** a live region: at 1 Hz it would recite the clock for as long as the
- * tab was open, the mistake M4 already refused for the live pill.
+ * Scheme tokens only, no literal colour. The face is hidden from screen
+ * readers: the time readout under it says the same time as text, so
+ * describing the face as well would read the time twice.
  */
 @OptIn(ExperimentalMaterial3ExpressiveApi::class)
 @Composable
 internal fun WorldClockFace(
     time: LocalTime,
     dayFraction: Float,
-    contentDescription: String,
     modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
 ) {
     val dialColor = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.secondaryContainer
@@ -81,7 +78,7 @@ internal fun WorldClockFace(
     Canvas(
         modifier = modifier
             .size(WorldClockDefaults.HeroFaceSize)
-            .clearAndSetSemantics { this.contentDescription = contentDescription },
+            .clearAndSetSemantics {},
     ) {
         drawDial(morph, progress, dialPath, dialMatrix, dialColor)
         drawTicks(markColor)
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/worldclock/WorldClockScreen.kt b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/worldclock/WorldClockScreen.kt
index 4c54bbf..abac9b9 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/worldclock/WorldClockScreen.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ui/worldclock/WorldClockScreen.kt
@@ -46,10 +46,13 @@ import java.time.LocalTime
  * The World clock tab: a hero analog face for **home**, then the cities, each
  * with its offset and day relative to home.
  *
- * The face is the home readout and the digital time is deliberately not
- * repeated under it — an analog face that also prints its own time is a face
- * nobody looks at (D11). The caption is where the ICU long zone name is shown,
- * which is the one place it earns its length.
+ * Under the face, the home time is repeated as a digital readout in the app's
+ * 12/24-hour format. This reverses D11, which left it out because an analog
+ * face that also prints its own time is a face nobody looks at: reading the
+ * exact minute off a dial is slower than reading it off digits, and that
+ * minute is what most visits to the tab are for. The face still carries what
+ * digits cannot: day or night at home, at a glance. The caption is where the
+ * ICU long zone name is shown, which is the one place it earns its length.
  *
  * `scrollable` stays true: `ReorderableColumn` is not lazy and cannot live
  * inside a `LazyColumn`, and a list capped at twenty-four rows is exactly the
@@ -187,40 +190,52 @@ private fun HomeFace(home: HomeFaceState, formatTime: (LocalTime) -> String) {
             .fillMaxWidth()
             .padding(horizontal = GroupedListInset, vertical = 16.dp),
         horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally,
-        verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(4.dp),
     ) {
+        // Hidden from TalkBack: the readout below says the same time.
         WorldClockFace(
             time = home.time,
             dayFraction = home.dayFraction,
-            contentDescription = stringResource(
-                R.string.world_clock_face_description,
-                home.city,
-                formatTime(home.time),
-            ),
             modifier = Modifier.padding(bottom = 12.dp),
         )
-        // The face has no other label saying whose time it is, and a city here
-        // is otherwise indistinguishable from a city in the list below.
-        Text(
-            text = stringResource(R.string.world_clock_home),
-            style = MaterialTheme.typography.labelMedium,
-            color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
-            textAlign = TextAlign.Center,
-        )
-        Text(
-            text = home.city,
-            style = MaterialTheme.typography.titleLarge,
-            color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurface,
-            textAlign = TextAlign.Center,
-        )
-        // The one place the ICU long zone name earns its length.
-        home.zoneName?.let { name ->
+        // One TalkBack stop for the time and whose time it is ("14:05, Home,
+        // Berlin, Central European Standard Time") rather than four. Not a
+        // live region: it would recite the clock every minute for as long as
+        // the tab was open, the mistake M4 already refused for the live pill.
+        Column(
+            modifier = Modifier.semantics(mergeDescendants = true) {},
+            horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally,
+            verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(4.dp),
+        ) {
             Text(
-                text = name,
-                style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodyMedium,
+                text = formatTime(home.time),
+                style = MaterialTheme.typography.displaySmall,
+                color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurface,
+                textAlign = TextAlign.Center,
+                modifier = Modifier.padding(bottom = 8.dp),
+            )
+            // The face has no other label saying whose time it is, and a city
+            // here is otherwise indistinguishable from a city in the list below.
+            Text(
+                text = stringResource(R.string.world_clock_home),
+                style = MaterialTheme.typography.labelMedium,
                 color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
                 textAlign = TextAlign.Center,
             )
+            Text(
+                text = home.city,
+                style = MaterialTheme.typography.titleLarge,
+                color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurface,
+                textAlign = TextAlign.Center,
+            )
+            // The one place the ICU long zone name earns its length.
+            home.zoneName?.let { name ->
+                Text(
+                    text = name,
+                    style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodyMedium,
+                    color = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant,
+                    textAlign = TextAlign.Center,
+                )
+            }
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml b/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
index 733f2cb..96fac52 100644
--- a/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
@@ -227,7 +227,6 @@
     <string name="world_clock_day_today">Today</string>
     <string name="world_clock_day_tomorrow">Tomorrow</string>
     <string name="world_clock_unknown_zone">This time zone is no longer on your device</string>
-    <string name="world_clock_face_description">%1$s, %2$s</string>
     <string name="world_clock_row_description">%1$s, %2$s, %3$s</string>
     <!-- A row whose zone the device no longer knows has no time to read out. -->
     <string name="world_clock_row_description_unknown">%1$s, %2$s</string>
diff --git a/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md b/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
index 6d12835..3ed5097 100644
--- a/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
+++ b/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
@@ -2383,12 +2383,17 @@ The rest is ordinary `Canvas` work over `AnalogFace`'s pure angles — twelve ho
 marks with the four quarters longer, three hands, a centre cap — in scheme
 tokens only. The morph is built once and the path re-derived into a reused
 `Path` per frame through `toPath(Morph, Float, Path)`, which is not
-`@Composable` and is therefore callable from a `DrawScope`. The face is the home
-readout and the digital time is **not** repeated under it: an analog face that
-also prints its own time is a face nobody looks at. It carries a content
-description naming the city and the time, and is deliberately **not** a live
-region — at 1 Hz it would recite the clock for as long as the tab was open,
-which is the mistake M4 already refused for the live pill (§12).
+`@Composable` and is therefore callable from a `DrawScope`. M8 left the digital
+time out from under the face on the grounds that an analog face that also
+prints its own time is a face nobody looks at (D11). **That is reversed:** the
+home time now sits under the face as a `displaySmall` readout in the app's
+12/24-hour format, because the exact minute is what most visits to the tab are
+for and a dial is the slow way to read it. The face keeps the day/night shape
+digits cannot carry. With the time on screen as text, the face is hidden from
+TalkBack, and the readout, "Home", the city and the zone name are one merged
+node, so the time is read once. Neither is a live region — that would recite
+the clock for as long as the tab was open, which is the mistake M4 already
+refused for the live pill (§12).
 
 ### The cadence