diff --git a/lib/pages/audit.dart b/lib/pages/audit.dart
index ce454a3..d9e7645 100644
--- a/lib/pages/audit.dart
+++ b/lib/pages/audit.dart
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ class _AuditPageState extends State<AuditPage> {
   /// filtering, and the hash-chain ordering exactly as before.
   StreamSubscription<AuditEvent>? _eventSub;
   Timer? _nudgeDebounce;
+  Timer? _reconnect;
 
   @override
   void initState() {
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ class _AuditPageState extends State<AuditPage> {
     Workspace.instance.removeListener(_onWorkspaceChanged);
     _poller?.cancel();
     _nudgeDebounce?.cancel();
+    _reconnect?.cancel();
     _eventSub?.cancel();
     super.dispose();
   }
@@ -122,7 +124,12 @@ class _AuditPageState extends State<AuditPage> {
       onDone: () {
         _eventSub = null;
         if (mounted) {
-          Timer(const Duration(seconds: 3), () {
+          // Held in a field so dispose() can cancel it — an
+          // anonymous timer here outlives the page when the
+          // stream closes right before navigation (the a11y
+          // suite caught this as a pending-timer flake).
+          _reconnect?.cancel();
+          _reconnect = Timer(const Duration(seconds: 3), () {
             if (mounted && _eventSub == null) _subscribeLive();
           });
         }