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+/**
+ * Copyright 2026 Adobe. All rights reserved.
+ * This file is licensed to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy
+ * of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under
+ * the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS
+ * OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language
+ * governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import { html, nothing } from 'lit';
+import type { Meta, StoryObj as Story } from '@storybook/web-components';
+
+// Registers `<demo-opacity-checkerboard-swatch>`; see opacity-checkerboard.vrt.ts.
+import '../../stories/opacity-checkerboard.internal.stories.js';
+
+import type { CustomPropertyCase } from '../../../../.storybook/helpers/index.js';
+import {
+  customPropertyRows,
+  theme,
+  vrtParameters,
+} from '../../../../.storybook/helpers/index.js';
+
+// Metadata
+
+const meta: Meta = {
+  title: 'Opacity checkerboard/Opacity checkerboard VRT',
+  component: 'demo-opacity-checkerboard-swatch',
+  tags: ['dev'],
+};
+
+export default meta;
+
+// Helpers
+
+// The shared fragment reads its light-square color through `token()`, which
+// makes it internal per the custom-properties naming convention (only `_`-
+// or `token()`-sourced values are internal); only the two alternating-square
+// colors consumed directly via `var()` are genuinely exposed for override.
+// This utility has no custom-elements.json declaration to check coverage
+// against (it's a shared `css` fragment, not a published custom element),
+// so unlike other components' *-custom-properties.vrt.ts files this one
+// skips verifyCustomPropertyCoverage() and documents the exposed set here
+// instead.
+type OpacityCheckerboardPropertyCase = CustomPropertyCase<
+  | '--swc-opacity-checkerboard-square-dark-light'
+  | '--swc-opacity-checkerboard-square-dark-dark'
+>;
+
+// `--square-dark-light` only resolves in a light color-scheme and
+// `--square-dark-dark` only in dark, since both feed the same `light-dark()`
+// call; each case is rendered in the theme where its override actually
+// takes effect, not just the default light/ltr theme every other file uses.
+const LIGHT_SQUARE_CASE: OpacityCheckerboardPropertyCase = {
+  property: '--swc-opacity-checkerboard-square-dark-light',
+  value: 'magenta',
+};
+
+const DARK_SQUARE_CASE: OpacityCheckerboardPropertyCase = {
+  property: '--swc-opacity-checkerboard-square-dark-dark',
+  value: 'cyan',
+};
+
+const renderPropertyCase = (
+  _testCase: OpacityCheckerboardPropertyCase,
+  style?: string
+) => html`
+  <demo-opacity-checkerboard-swatch
+    color="transparent"
+    label="Opacity checkerboard"
+    style=${style ?? nothing}
+  ></demo-opacity-checkerboard-swatch>
+`;
+
+// VRT stories
+
+export const CustomProperties: Story = {
+  render: () => html`
+    ${theme(
+      customPropertyRows([LIGHT_SQUARE_CASE], renderPropertyCase),
+      'light',
+      'ltr'
+    )}
+    ${theme(
+      customPropertyRows([DARK_SQUARE_CASE], renderPropertyCase),
+      'dark',
+      'ltr'
+    )}
+  `,
+  parameters: vrtParameters,
+};
diff --git a/2nd-gen/packages/swc/components/opacity-checkerboard/test/vrt/opacity-checkerboard.vrt.ts b/2nd-gen/packages/swc/components/opacity-checkerboard/test/vrt/opacity-checkerboard.vrt.ts
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+/**
+ * Copyright 2026 Adobe. All rights reserved.
+ * This file is licensed to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy
+ * of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under
+ * the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS
+ * OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language
+ * governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import { html } from 'lit';
+import type { Meta, StoryObj as Story } from '@storybook/web-components';
+
+// Registers `<demo-opacity-checkerboard-swatch>`, the internal Lit host the
+// docs stories use to demonstrate how a consuming component adopts the
+// shared opacity-checkerboard CSS fragment into its own shadow root.
+import '../../stories/opacity-checkerboard.internal.stories.js';
+
+import {
+  forcedColorsVrtParameters,
+  row,
+  theme,
+  vrtParameters,
+} from '../../../../.storybook/helpers/index.js';
+
+// Metadata
+
+const meta: Meta = {
+  title: 'Opacity checkerboard/Opacity checkerboard VRT',
+  component: 'demo-opacity-checkerboard-swatch',
+  tags: ['dev'],
+};
+
+export default meta;
+
+// Helpers
+
+// Mirrors the (unexported) `swatch()` helper in opacity-checkerboard.internal.stories.ts;
+// duplicated locally rather than shared so this VRT-only change doesn't also touch the
+// docs stories file.
+const swatch = (size: 'm' | 's', color: string, label: string) => html`
+  <demo-opacity-checkerboard-swatch
+    size=${size}
+    color=${color}
+    label=${label}
+  ></demo-opacity-checkerboard-swatch>
+`;
+
+// Sizes at full transparency, so the square pattern itself is the only thing
+// on screen; the transparent-content row below covers the pattern's actual
+// purpose of reading through partially-opaque fills.
+const permutationContent = () => html`
+  ${row(
+    [
+      swatch('m', 'transparent', 'Medium squares'),
+      swatch('s', 'transparent', 'Small squares'),
+    ],
+    'Sizes'
+  )}
+  ${row(
+    [
+      swatch('m', 'rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.4)', 'Red, 40% opacity'),
+      swatch('m', 'rgba(0, 128, 255, 0.25)', 'Blue, 25% opacity'),
+      swatch('m', 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)', 'Black, 60% opacity'),
+      swatch('m', 'rgb(0, 200, 120)', 'Green, fully opaque'),
+    ],
+    'Transparent content'
+  )}
+`;
+
+// VRT stories
+
+// The alternating square resolves one of its two colors via `light-dark()`,
+// so the dark theme changes the pattern itself, not just the surrounding
+// page; it earns its place here rather than being skipped as a plain
+// direction check.
+export const Permutations: Story = {
+  render: () => html`
+    ${theme(permutationContent(), 'light', 'ltr')}
+    ${theme(permutationContent(), 'dark', 'rtl')}
+  `,
+  parameters: vrtParameters,
+};
+
+// `forced-colors` sets `forced-color-adjust: none` on the checkerboard so
+// the pattern stays visible under the system palette override, unlike most
+// decorative backgrounds which get flattened.
+export const ForcedColors: Story = {
+  render: () => row([swatch('m', 'rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.4)', 'Red, 40% opacity')]),
+  parameters: forcedColorsVrtParameters,
+};