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Summary

Align Button docs with the Canvas Kit accessibility template: structure, built-in behaviors, requirements table, and anti-patterns scoped to variant buttons.

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modules/react/button/stories/button/Button.mdx

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    Accessibility section has been updated to the new template.

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  1. Start a dev server locally and open Components > Buttons > Docs
  2. Review the Accessibility section

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  • Documentation
    • Updated button accessibility guidance on choosing button types, accessible names, tooltips, popup triggers, toggles, forms, grouping, disabled states, navigation, and focus.
    • Added examples and clarified when to use radio controls for mutually exclusive choices.
  • Documentation Navigation
    • Improved links between component documentation and Storybook examples, including links that point to specific sections.

Align Button docs with the Canvas Kit accessibility template: structure,
built-in behaviors, requirements table, and anti-patterns scoped to variant
buttons with correct Segmented Control and icon-only naming guidance.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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The pull request updates Button accessibility guidance and examples, Storybook MDX link routing, and the exported ListBox container selector used by MenuCard.

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Button accessibility guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Component selection and accessible names
modules/react/button/stories/button/Button.mdx
The guidance distinguishes buttons from navigation and selection controls. It clarifies accessible naming for visible-text and icon-only buttons.
Button behavior and menu composition
modules/react/button/stories/button/Button.mdx
The story describes button type defaults, popup-target ARIA behavior, toggle announcements, and a Menu.Target composition example.
Conditional requirements and examples
modules/react/button/stories/button/Button.mdx, modules/react/button/stories/button/examples/ThemeOverrides.tsx
The story adds conditional recommendations for forms, selection controls, toggles, and menus, and expands its code-generation summary and anti-patterns. The example wraps related-actions buttons in tooltips and removes their aria-label attributes.

Storybook MDX link routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Route mappings and MDX plugin registration
.storybook/routes.js, .storybook/main.ts
The route map adds and updates component documentation routes. Storybook registers the remark plugin in both MDX configurations.
MDX and Vite link rewriting
.storybook/remark-rewrite-canvas-routes.ts, .storybook/vite-plugin-redirect-mdx-to-github.ts
The remark plugin rewrites mapped absolute links and retains non-empty fragments. The Vite rewrite preserves fragments and leaves existing Storybook query links unchanged.

ListBox container selector

Layer / File(s) Summary
Export and use the container selector
modules/react/collection/lib/ListBox.tsx, modules/react/collection/index.ts, modules/react/menu/lib/MenuCard.tsx
The collection package exports a selector for the ListBox container part. MenuCard uses it for its existing container styles.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: jamesfan, mannycarrera4

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ff426

On the deployed docs site, rewritten documentation links can lead outside the Canvas Kit Storybook. One mapped link that includes a fragment never resolves to its intended page. The Button guidance also names the wrong context-menu component. The link base-path issue should be fixed before merging.

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The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: modules

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  • observed — modules (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in modules/react/button/stories/button/Button.mdx: Replaced the brief description of semantic button behavior and a link to the APG pattern with guidance on choosing button components versus navigation, menus, and mutually exclusive controls, followed by minimum accessible examples for text, decorative-icon, and icon-only buttons.
  • observed — Modified behavior in modules/react/button/stories/button/Button.mdx: Added icon-only naming guidance: prefer Tooltip with type="label" and title; use aria-label when the specification prohibits a tooltip. The guidance also applies to the other button variants.
  • observed — Modified behavior in modules/react/button/stories/button/Button.mdx: Added descriptions of the button components’ stated DOM, ARIA, focus, ref, native-attribute, keyboard, and screen-reader behaviors, including the roles of BaseButton and Menu.Target.
  • observed — Modified behavior in modules/react/button/stories/button/Button.mdx: Added requirements that distinguish default accessible-name guidance from conditional practices for icons, toggles, menus, grouping, disabled actions, navigation, and programmatic focus, plus a condensed code-generation checklist.
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Review comments at @modules/react/button/stories/button/Button.mdx:
- Line 217: Update the “Toggle pressed state” guidance in the checklist to
recommend aria-pressed only when a toggle button keeps a stable label. Clarify
that buttons whose labels change with their state, such as Mute/Unmute, should
not also use aria-pressed; retain the existing guidance for toolbar buttons and
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- Around line 129-131: Update the introductory guidance and requirements table
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There's a few high level things I recommend:

  1. The Introduction paragraph got a little too long and rambly about how to make Menus. We should cut this and reference the Menu docs.
  2. I notice that in both "built in behaviors" and "requirements table" there are a lot of "Do Not XYZ" statements in those sections. IMO, this might be wasting context and duplicating what is captured in the dedicated "anti-patterns" section.
  3. Anti-Patterns: there's 12 bullets here. That's a lot, I'd look for opportunities to consolidate these if we can, and focus only on Button element things.
  4. I think we need to have a look at the ThemedButtons example to make sure it isn't contradicting what we want from our docs.

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Update Button accessibility guidance per review, use Tooltip in ThemeOverrides, fix Storybook Canvas path rewrites, and use a static list-box selector in MenuCard for Vite.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

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Review comments at @.storybook/remark-rewrite-canvas-routes.ts:
- Line 24: Update both route rewriters to check the full URL against the route
map before falling back to the fragment-free path: in the remark canvas route
rewriter, check before looking up pathPart; in the MDX-to-GitHub redirect
rewriter, check before using the fragment-free URL for fallback lookup. This
ensures fragment-specific mappings are selected.
- Line 29: Update the manager URL construction in the canvas-route rewrite to
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- Line 194: Update the context-menu reference in the Menu trigger row of the
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const pathPart = hashIndex === -1 ? url : url.slice(0, hashIndex);
const hash = hashIndex === -1 ? '' : url.slice(hashIndex + 1);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Match fragment-specific routes before splitting the URL. The route map contains /get-started/for-developers/documentation/testing#visual-tests. Both rewriters discard its fragment before lookup, so they cannot select its mapped destination.

  • .storybook/remark-rewrite-canvas-routes.ts#L24-L24: check the full URL for a mapped route before looking up pathPart.
  • .storybook/vite-plugin-redirect-mdx-to-github.ts#L22-L22: check the full URL before using the fragment-free URL for fallback lookup.
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const storyId = routes[pathPart as keyof typeof routes];
node.url = `../?path=/docs/${storyId}${hash ? `#${hash}` : ''}`;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep manager links under the Storybook project path. If the iframe is at /canvas-kit/iframe.html, ../?path= resolves to /?path= rather than /canvas-kit/?path=. Mapped documentation links therefore leave the GitHub Pages deployment.

  • .storybook/remark-rewrite-canvas-routes.ts#L29-L29: construct a manager URL that retains the deployment base path.
  • .storybook/vite-plugin-redirect-mdx-to-github.ts#L27-L27: use the same base-path-safe URL construction.
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Update the manager URL construction in the canvas-route rewrite to retain the
Storybook deployment base path instead of resolving `../?path=` from the iframe.
Apply the same base-path-safe URL construction in the redirect logic at
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| Form submit _(conditional)_ | **`type="submit"`** on the variant button inside a form that should submit when activated; omit **`type="submit"`** otherwise (default **`type="button"`**) |
| Mutually exclusive group _(conditional)_ | [Segmented Control](/components/buttons/segmented-control/) for two or more in-page mutually exclusive options—not a single variant button or lone on/off control; use [Radio](/preview/inputs/radio/) when the selection is a form value |
| Toggle pressed state _(conditional)_ | On/off controls: use **`aria-pressed`** only when the visible label stays stable while state changes (not Mute/Unmute-style labels); set **`aria-pressed`** in both states and include or ask the user for visual styling for pressed state—variant buttons do not provide default pressed visuals. Omit for one-shot actions (Save, Delete, Open). For a toolbar toggle, use **`ToolbarIconButton`**—see [Toolbar](/components/buttons/toolbar/) |
| Menu trigger _(conditional)_ | Compose **`Menu`** with **`Menu.Target as={PrimaryButton}`** (**`Menu.Target`** defaults to **`SecondaryButton`**). Context menus: **`Menu.ContextTarget`**. See [Menu accessibility](/components/popups/menu/#accessibility) and **Menu trigger composition** below |

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use Menu.TargetContext for context menus.

Menu.ContextTarget is not a Menu subcomponent. Replace this name so readers can use the documented API. This correct name was also identified in the previous review. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the context-menu reference in the Menu trigger row of the button story to
use the documented Menu.TargetContext subcomponent instead of
Menu.ContextTarget.

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Looks good!

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