The long-press menu had grown to eleven actions and drew every one of them as
the same full-width bar. On the fullest menu the tool can build — a live seat
that isn't the dealer, blinds still the only money in, an override already set
— that came to 796px and took 85% of the screen on all four viewports measured.
It scrolled on all four, and Cancel was off the bottom of the screen on all
four: 79px past it on a 390px phone, 252px on a 360px one, 448px in landscape.
Apple puts the comfortable number for an action sheet at three to five and says
not to let one scroll at all.
Nothing is cut. Every one of the eleven is the only route to something, and
"Blinds follow the button again" is the only route in the whole tool to
clearing a blind override. They are sorted by *when* instead: a seat action is
either something you do with cards in the air or housekeeping between hands,
and those two want different targets. The hand keeps the full-width bars —
Fold, All-in, Un-fold, and seating the next player off the rail, because a
chair opens between two hands with people watching it. Everything else goes to
a two-column grid of quieter 44px tiles underneath.
The captions are not decoration. A half-width tile reading "Small blind" is a
label, and the puck already wears one of those; under "Give this seat" it is a
verb again. That is what lets three of the longest labels here lose ten
characters each and still fit a half tile on one line, which is the height the
caption pays back. The override reset spans the grid rather than sitting in it
as a fourth position to give, dashed and unfilled — the felt's own word for
"nothing set by hand here" — so it doesn't read as the Cancel below it either.
Same fullest menu afterwards: 650px, 77%, no scroll on a phone or a desktop.
What a dealer actually sees mid-hand is eight actions and 546px, 65%. The move
picker, which was eleven more full-width bars, now fits all eleven chairs of a
twelve-handed table on a 360px phone without scrolling.
Two things the height was hiding, fixed with it:
The header is stuck to the top of the sheet's scrollport and carries a real
close button. NN/g is explicit that a grab handle is not a close affordance,
and this is the sheet that can still outgrow a landscape phone — so the way
out, and whose menu this is, are now in the part that cannot scroll away.
That close button is also the first control in the markup, which is what Modal
focuses. It used to focus Fold. The APG says to keep a dialog's initial focus
off the destructive choice; a close button at the top puts it there without a
special case. Escape finds that one rather than the button at the foot, so
Escape closes the sheet while the foot steps back — and it now has somewhere to
step back to: opening the move picker used to replace the sheet and leave only
a control that threw the whole menu away.
1068 tests pass; the 418-audit sweep is clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015bnp7xKUPFFSpwkYNFaPgb
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