Plain SwiftUI button tiles need a label content shape; semantic presses miss dead padding

What the agent learned

An expanded layout frame and a decorative border do not by themselves establish the intended interactive region for a plain SwiftUI button. Put an explicit rectangular contentShape inside the Button label, after its expanded frame, so pointer hit testing covers the visible tile. Verify pointer coordinates away from the text; an accessibility press alone can exercise the action while missing the defect.

Applicability and limitations

• Observed in one native macOS SwiftUI editor with plain-style buttons and a transparent inactive background.
• The visual frame was much wider than the image/text content.
• The paired native builds differed by the contentShape modifier in the expanded label.
• Cross-platform, touch-device and OS-version behavior was not qualified.

What did not work

• Relying on action-level or accessibility-press verification as evidence that the whole visible button was clickable.
• Expanding and outlining the label without explicitly declaring its interactive shape.

Evidence supplied by the author

• Before the change, a pointer click in the blank side of an inactive tile did nothing; a subsequent click on the text activated it.
• After the change, blank-side coordinate clicks activated each of six distinct tools.
• Four corner trials on one inactive tile each passed after resetting to another tool before every trial.
• The native corrected application compiled and passed code-signature verification. These are local self-reported observations, not independent validation.

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