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Pending states in the Mosaic user button were silent to VoiceOver.

  • Switching a workspace keeps focus on the row, but its spinner was aria-hidden, so nothing about the focused row changed and the wait passed in silence. Spinner now carries role='progressbar' + a name, paired with aria-busy on the row. Same pairing SubmitButton uses.
  • Accept/Join announced SubmitButton's untranslated fallback pending. Now takes this surface's copy.
  • Accept/Join read the same on every row, with the workspace only in the sibling title. Added aria-describedby pointing at that title.
  • Loading placeholder drops role='status' — it mounts with its copy already in it, so there was no change for a live region to report. Comment claimed otherwise.

Swingset gets a LoadingOrganizations example, since every other example is handed its organizations on first render and never shows the placeholder.

Verified by hand in VoiceOver, not just by assertion.

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  • pnpm test runs as expected.
  • pnpm build runs as expected.
  • (If applicable) JSDoc comments have been added or updated for any package exports
  • (If applicable) Documentation has been updated

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  • 🐛 Bug fix
  • 🌟 New feature
  • 🔨 Breaking change
  • 📖 Refactoring / dependency upgrade / documentation
  • other:

Switching a workspace kept focus on the row while its spinner stayed
aria-hidden, so the wait passed in silence. The indicator now carries a
progressbar role and a name, paired with aria-busy on the row.

Accept and Join announced the untranslated literal 'pending' and named
no workspace. Both now take this surface's copy, and point at the row
title through aria-describedby.

The loading placeholder drops role='status': it mounts with its copy
already in it, so there was no change for a live region to report.
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

UserButton workspace actions now expose accessible workspace descriptions, pending labels, aria-busy, and labelled progress indicators. Organization loading is no longer announced through a live status region. Tests cover the updated accessibility behavior. Storybook documents and demonstrates the organization-loading state.

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

Possibly related PRs

  • clerk/javascript#9184: Introduced the UserButton component and related stories extended by this change.
  • clerk/javascript#9185: Added related UserButton organization-loading and accessibility behavior.
  • clerk/javascript#9404: Modified the same UserButton view, messages, and accessibility tests for related pending-action behavior.

Suggested reviewers: maxyinger

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main accessibility change for pending workspace actions in the Mosaic user button.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the accessibility fixes, loading example, verification, and related test and build checks.
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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (2)
packages/swingset/src/stories/user-button.stories.tsx (1)

12-12: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Declare the exported story return type.

Line 378 exports LoadingOrganizations without an explicit return type. Import JSX as a type and declare : JSX.Element.

Proposed update
 import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
+import type { JSX } from 'react';

-export function LoadingOrganizations(_args: Record<string, unknown>) {
+export function LoadingOrganizations(_args: Record<string, unknown>): JSX.Element {

As per coding guidelines, “Always define explicit return types for functions, especially public APIs.”

Also applies to: 378-398

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@packages/swingset/src/stories/user-button.stories.tsx` at line 12, Update the
exported LoadingOrganizations story function to declare an explicit JSX.Element
return type, and import JSX as a type from React alongside the existing hooks
import. Keep the story implementation unchanged.

Source: Coding guidelines

packages/swingset/src/stories/user-button.mdx (1)

141-154: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the compound-page section order.

Line 141 adds a top-level Loading section. This compound-component page must use Example, Usage, Parts, then Styling as its top-level sections. Move this loading content into an allowed section.

As per coding guidelines, “Compound Components pages must use the exact section order: Example, Usage, Parts, then Styling.”

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@packages/swingset/src/stories/user-button.mdx` around lines 141 - 154, Move
the Loading section content and its LoadingOrganizations story into one of the
existing allowed sections while preserving the required top-level order:
Example, Usage, Parts, then Styling. Remove the standalone top-level Loading
heading and keep the loading explanation and story together in the selected
section.

Source: Coding guidelines

🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@packages/ui/src/mosaic/user-button/__tests__/user-button.view.test.tsx`:
- Around line 724-731: Update the test case around
userButtonBusyKeys.selectOrganization in “leaves the rows standing down beside
it with nothing to report” to also assert that the Personal account row has
aria-disabled="true". Preserve the existing aria-busy and progressbar
assertions.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/swingset/src/stories/user-button.mdx`:
- Around line 141-154: Move the Loading section content and its
LoadingOrganizations story into one of the existing allowed sections while
preserving the required top-level order: Example, Usage, Parts, then Styling.
Remove the standalone top-level Loading heading and keep the loading explanation
and story together in the selected section.

In `@packages/swingset/src/stories/user-button.stories.tsx`:
- Line 12: Update the exported LoadingOrganizations story function to declare an
explicit JSX.Element return type, and import JSX as a type from React alongside
the existing hooks import. Keep the story implementation unchanged.
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  • packages/ui/src/mosaic/user-button/__tests__/user-button.view.test.tsx
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Comment on lines +724 to +731
// The rows waiting on it are not running anything, so they carry the indicator's opposite.
it('leaves the rows standing down beside it with nothing to report', () => {
render(surface(userButtonBusyKeys.selectOrganization('org_2')));

const row = screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Personal account' });
expect(row).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-busy');
expect(within(row).queryByRole('progressbar')).toBeNull();
});

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the waiting row stays disabled.

Line 724 states that these rows stand down. The test only checks that the row has no aria-busy attribute and no progressbar. Add an assertion for aria-disabled="true" so the test protects the disabled-state contract.

Proposed test update
 const row = screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Personal account' });
+expect(row).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
 expect(row).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-busy');
 expect(within(row).queryByRole('progressbar')).toBeNull();

As per coding guidelines, “Unit tests are required for all new functionality” and must verify edge cases.

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// The rows waiting on it are not running anything, so they carry the indicator's opposite.
it('leaves the rows standing down beside it with nothing to report', () => {
render(surface(userButtonBusyKeys.selectOrganization('org_2')));
const row = screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Personal account' });
expect(row).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-busy');
expect(within(row).queryByRole('progressbar')).toBeNull();
});
// The rows waiting on it are not running anything, so they carry the indicator's opposite.
it('leaves the rows standing down beside it with nothing to report', () => {
render(surface(userButtonBusyKeys.selectOrganization('org_2')));
const row = screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Personal account' });
expect(row).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
expect(row).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-busy');
expect(within(row).queryByRole('progressbar')).toBeNull();
});
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@packages/ui/src/mosaic/user-button/__tests__/user-button.view.test.tsx`
around lines 724 - 731, Update the test case around
userButtonBusyKeys.selectOrganization in “leaves the rows standing down beside
it with nothing to report” to also assert that the Personal account row has
aria-disabled="true". Preserve the existing aria-busy and progressbar
assertions.

Source: Coding guidelines

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