diff --git a/src/web/public/tile-grid.js b/src/web/public/tile-grid.js
index bd9fc979..3d4e1289 100644
--- a/src/web/public/tile-grid.js
+++ b/src/web/public/tile-grid.js
@@ -529,8 +529,12 @@ Object.assign(CodemanApp.prototype, {
       const item = document.createElement('button');
       item.type = 'button';
       item.setAttribute('role', 'menuitem');
-      item.setAttribute('data-i18n-skip', '');
-      item.textContent = c.label;
+      // Only the name is user text: skipping the whole button would keep its
+      // title (why it is disabled) out of the translator too.
+      const name = document.createElement('span');
+      name.setAttribute('data-i18n-skip', '');
+      name.textContent = c.label;
+      item.appendChild(name);
       item.disabled = full;
       if (full) item.title = limit.full;
       item.addEventListener('click', () => {
diff --git a/test/tile-grid-cap.test.ts b/test/tile-grid-cap.test.ts
index ced5c79e..d0e8f85d 100644
--- a/test/tile-grid-cap.test.ts
+++ b/test/tile-grid-cap.test.ts
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ describe('every way in stops at the cap', () => {
     const app = fullGrid();
     app.openTileAddMenu({ stopPropagation: vi.fn(), preventDefault: vi.fn(), currentTarget: null }, 's-1');
     const menu = body.children.find((c) => c.className.includes('tile-add-menu'))!;
-    const items = menu.children.filter((c) => c.textContent === 's-7' || c.textContent === 's-8');
+    const items = menu.children.filter((c) => ['s-7', 's-8'].includes(c.children[0]?.textContent ?? ''));
     expect(items).toHaveLength(2);
     for (const item of items) {
       expect(item.disabled).toBe(true);
diff --git a/test/tile-grid-i18n.test.ts b/test/tile-grid-i18n.test.ts
index 437edf96..08258393 100644
--- a/test/tile-grid-i18n.test.ts
+++ b/test/tile-grid-i18n.test.ts
@@ -72,13 +72,20 @@ const leftover = (text: string) => text.replace(ALLOWED, '').match(/[A-Za-z]+/g)
 const seen = new Map<string, string>();
 /** Text in a data-i18n-skip subtree (user text): must never be translated. */
 const userText = new Set<string>();
+/**
+ * A title or accessible name inside a skipped subtree: the translator skips
+ * the element's attributes along with its text, so a UI label there stays
+ * English. Only the user text itself may be skipped.
+ */
+const labelsInSkip: string[] = [];
 
 function harvest(root: FakeEl | null | undefined, where: string) {
   const walk = (el: FakeEl, inSkip: boolean) => {
     const skip = inSkip || 'data-i18n-skip' in el.attrs;
     const add = (value: unknown, kind: string) => {
       if (typeof value !== 'string' || !/[A-Za-z]/.test(value)) return;
-      if (skip) userText.add(value.trim());
+      if (skip && kind === 'text') userText.add(value.trim());
+      else if (skip) labelsInSkip.push(`${where} (${kind}): ${value}`);
       else if (!seen.has(value.trim())) seen.set(value.trim(), `${where} (${kind})`);
     };
     add(el.textContent, 'text');
@@ -298,6 +305,10 @@ describe('every tile grid string the code puts on screen translates to zh-CN', (
     expect(bad).toEqual([]);
   });
 
+  it('no UI label sits inside a skipped subtree (where the translator cannot reach it)', () => {
+    expect(labelsInSkip).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
   it('each one reads exactly as before in English', () => {
     const changed = [...seen.keys()].filter((s) => en.api.t(s) !== s);
     expect(changed).toEqual([]);
diff --git a/test/tile-grid-picker.test.ts b/test/tile-grid-picker.test.ts
index c58eb6db..63235bcc 100644
--- a/test/tile-grid-picker.test.ts
+++ b/test/tile-grid-picker.test.ts
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ describe("a tile's + menu", () => {
     app.markIdleAlertSeen.mockClear();
     addButtonOf('s-a').dispatch('click', { stopPropagation: vi.fn(), currentTarget: null });
     const items = addMenu()!.children.filter((i) => i.className !== 'tile-add-new');
-    expect(items.map((i) => i.textContent)).toEqual(['s-other', 's-c']);
+    expect(items.map((i) => i.children[0].textContent)).toEqual(['s-other', 's-c']);
     items[1].dispatch('click');
     expect(app._tileGrid.ids).toEqual(['s-a', 's-b', 's-c']);
     expect(app.activeSessionId).toBe('s-c');