polish-ui

To ensure modals close on Escape and return focus, evaluate focus-trapping components like dialogs and popovers against an interaction checklist, verifying that the Escape key reliably dismisses the UI and restores focus to the trigger element inline.

Verify keyboard shortcuts in React by checking that visible button labels display platform-appropriate glyphs and confirming the shortcut binding actually triggers the corresponding action within the same UI edit cycle.

UX polish regression in frontend development occurs when new UI changes introduce gaps in interaction details, such as missing keyboard shortcut visibility or broken modal dismissal behavior, which a change-scoped evaluation checks and corrects.

This UI checklist evaluation does not work with backend-only refactors. It applies change-aware scoping to skip non-applicable edits and only evaluates items involving actions like buttons, modals, forms, and keyboard-driven interactions in .tsx/.jsx files.

The best way to fix UX gaps when adding a new button or dialog is to run a checklist-driven evaluation that enforces interaction requirements and applies inline corrections for shortcuts and focus-trapping behavior in the same turn.