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Specific Button Labels

MUST

MUST: Label buttons with verb plus object ("Save API Key", "Delete Project"), never a generic "Continue" or "OK" — the label is read out of context by a screen reader cycling controls.

Name the action in the button label instead of using generic words like Continue or OK

Bad

Good

Why it matters

A button label is often read out of context — by a screen reader cycling the controls list, or by a user who skipped the body copy. A verb-plus-object label ("Save API Key", "Delete Project") stays meaningful alone and tells the user what will happen before they commit.

References

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.