diff --git a/resources/boost/skills/livewire-material-development/SKILL.md b/resources/boost/skills/livewire-material-development/SKILL.md
index 1b58f02b..7d2f7475 100644
--- a/resources/boost/skills/livewire-material-development/SKILL.md
+++ b/resources/boost/skills/livewire-material-development/SKILL.md
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ Attributes go to the leading button; the slot is the menu. `variant` (`filled` d
 </div>
 ```
 
-Two to six items open above the FAB, which turns into a close button. `<x-fab-menu>`: `icon` (`add`), `label`, `color`, `position` (`top-end` default). Give items the same `color`. Keyboard, and staying open through a Livewire render, as `<x-menu>`.
+Two to six items open above the FAB, which turns into a close button, rising into place as it opens and sinking back as it closes; a window too short for them scrolls the list while the FAB stays put. `<x-fab-menu>`: `icon` (`add`), `label` (defaults to "Toggle menu" — the trigger has no other accessible name), `color`, `position` (`top-end` default). Give items the same `color`. Keyboard, and staying open through a Livewire render, as `<x-menu>`. The wrapper keeps M3's margin from the window edge: 16dp, 24dp from `large`.
 
 ### `<x-loading>`
 
diff --git a/resources/css/components/actions.css b/resources/css/components/actions.css
index 3eb2b95a..f0abf45c 100644
--- a/resources/css/components/actions.css
+++ b/resources/css/components/actions.css
@@ -68,3 +68,16 @@
         }
     }
 }
+
+/*
+ * A FAB menu's items rise into place as the list opens and sink back as it closes. The entry is
+ * `@starting-style` on the item itself; the exit needs the state to be readable while the popover
+ * is on its way out, which is what `:not(:popover-open)` is — the popover keeps `display: flex`
+ * for the length of its own discrete transition, so the items have somewhere to animate to.
+ *
+ * Unlayered (a plain rule, not an `@utility`), so it beats the item's own utilities.
+ */
+[data-fab-menu]:not(:popover-open) > * {
+    translate: 0 0.5rem;
+    opacity: 0;
+}
diff --git a/resources/views/components/fab-menu.blade.php b/resources/views/components/fab-menu.blade.php
index e0116c5f..69798c96 100644
--- a/resources/views/components/fab-menu.blade.php
+++ b/resources/views/components/fab-menu.blade.php
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {{-- An M3 Expressive FAB menu: a FAB that opens into a short list of related actions.
 
-         <div class="fixed end-4 bottom-4">
+         <div class="fixed end-4 bottom-4 large:end-6 large:bottom-6">
              <x-fab-menu label="New">
                  <x-fab-menu-item label="Upload files" icon="upload_file" wire:click="uploadFiles" />
                  <x-fab-menu-item label="Upload a folder" icon="drive_folder_upload" wire:click="uploadFolder" />
@@ -10,8 +10,14 @@
      Two to six items. The FAB (`icon`, `add` by default, in `color`'s container) turns into a
      round close button in the colour itself while the list is open above it, end-aligned; the
      list is a `popover="auto"` menu with the menu keyboard of `<x-menu>`. `label` names the FAB
-     for screen readers. Give the items the same `color`. Like `<x-menu>`'s, the list is keyed for
-     Livewire, so it stays open through a render of the component around it.
+     and the menu for screen readers, and defaults to "Toggle menu" — the icons inside the button
+     are aria-hidden, so without it the trigger has no name at all. Give the items the same
+     `color`. Like `<x-menu>`'s, the list is keyed for Livewire, so it stays open through a render
+     of the component around it.
+
+     It does not place itself. M3's margin from the edge of the window is 16dp, and 24dp from the
+     `large` class up: `fixed end-4 bottom-4 large:end-6 large:bottom-6`. A window too short for
+     the list scrolls it; the items rise into place as it opens and sink back as it closes.
 
      FabMenuBaselineTokens (androidx Compose Material 3, Apache-2.0): 56px items, 4px apart, 8px
      above the close button. The FAB's corner and colours morph on the two default springs at once
@@ -25,6 +31,10 @@
 ])
 
 @php
+    // The trigger's only content is two icons, which are aria-hidden, so without a name it is an
+    // unnamed button. M3 asks the FAB's label to say what menu it opens; "Toggle menu" is its own
+    // fallback wording for the close button.
+    $label = filled($label) ? $label : __('Toggle menu');
     $color = in_array($color, ['primary', 'secondary', 'tertiary'], true) ? $color : 'primary';
     $key = \Illuminate\Support\Str::lower(\Illuminate\Support\Str::random(10));
     $anchor = "--material-fab-menu-{$key}";
@@ -44,7 +54,7 @@
     >
         <button
             type="button"
-            @if ($label) aria-label="{{ $label }}" @endif
+            aria-label="{{ $label }}"
             @class([
                 'group/fab state-layer focus-ring inline-flex size-14 shrink-0 cursor-pointer items-center justify-center rounded-corner-lg shadow-elevation-3 hover:shadow-elevation-4',
                 'state-transition-default aria-expanded:rounded-corner-full',
@@ -62,17 +72,23 @@
         id="material-fab-menu-{{ $key }}"
         popover="auto"
         role="menu"
-        @if ($label) aria-label="{{ $label }}" @endif
+        data-fab-menu
+        aria-label="{{ $label }}"
         tabindex="-1"
         style="position-anchor: {{ $anchor }}"
         x-on:keydown="navigate($event)"
         x-on:click="activate($event)"
         @class([
-            'm-0 flex-col gap-1 overflow-visible border-0 bg-transparent p-0 open:flex [inset:auto]',
-            'mb-2 items-end [position-area:top_span-left]' => $position === 'top-end',
-            'mb-2 items-start [position-area:top_span-right]' => $position === 'top-start',
-            'mt-2 items-end [position-area:bottom_span-left]' => $position === 'bottom-end',
-            'mt-2 items-start [position-area:bottom_span-right]' => $position === 'bottom-start',
+            'm-0 flex-col gap-1 border-0 bg-transparent p-2 open:flex [inset:auto]',
+            // A landscape phone has no room for six 56px items: the list scrolls, the FAB below it
+            // does not. The 8px padding is the gap M3 leaves above the FAB and the room the items'
+            // elevation needs inside the scroll box; the negative margins put it back where it was.
+            'max-h-[calc(100dvh-8rem)] overflow-y-auto',
+            'transition-[display,overlay] transition-discrete duration-(--md-sys-motion-spatial-fast-duration)',
+            '-mx-2 -mt-2 items-end [position-area:top_span-left]' => $position === 'top-end',
+            '-mx-2 -mt-2 items-start [position-area:top_span-right]' => $position === 'top-start',
+            '-mx-2 -mb-2 items-end [position-area:bottom_span-left]' => $position === 'bottom-end',
+            '-mx-2 -mb-2 items-start [position-area:bottom_span-right]' => $position === 'bottom-start',
         ])
     >
         {{ $slot }}
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Components/FabTest.php b/tests/Feature/Components/FabTest.php
index 6d2e4e11..eada234f 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Components/FabTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Components/FabTest.php
@@ -70,5 +70,13 @@ it('opens a FAB menu of end-aligned actions above it', function () {
         ->toContain('role="menuitem"')
         ->toContain('wire:click="upload"')
         ->toContain('h-14')
-        ->toContain('Upload files');
+        ->toContain('Upload files')
+        ->toContain('max-h-[calc(100dvh-8rem)] overflow-y-auto')
+        ->toContain('data-fab-menu');
+});
+
+it('names the FAB menu even when the caller forgets to', function () {
+    expect((string) $this->blade('<x-fab-menu />'))
+        ->toContain('aria-label="Toggle menu"')
+        ->and(substr_count((string) $this->blade('<x-fab-menu />'), 'aria-label="Toggle menu"'))->toBe(2);
 });