diff --git a/ui/src/components/InlineEditor.tsx b/ui/src/components/InlineEditor.tsx
index 1d0866a9b7a..f866eecdc03 100644
--- a/ui/src/components/InlineEditor.tsx
+++ b/ui/src/components/InlineEditor.tsx
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ export function InlineEditor({
   }, [autosaveState, commit, draft, markDirty, multiline, multilineFocused, nullable, reset, runSave, value]);
 
   if (multiline) {
-    const previewValue = autosaveState === "saved" ? draft : value;
+    const previewValue = autosaveState === "saved" || autosaveState === "idle" ? draft : value;
     const hasValue = Boolean(previewValue.trim());
     const showEditor = multilineEditing || multilineFocused || !hasValue;
 
diff --git a/ui/src/components/MarkdownBody.test.tsx b/ui/src/components/MarkdownBody.test.tsx
index 08362b7f3f0..894fa8a7344 100644
--- a/ui/src/components/MarkdownBody.test.tsx
+++ b/ui/src/components/MarkdownBody.test.tsx
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ vi.mock("../api/issues", () => ({
   issuesApi: mockIssuesApi,
 }));
 
-function renderMarkdown(children: string, seededIssues: Array<{ identifier: string; status: string }> = []) {
+function renderMarkdown(children: string, seededIssues: Array<{ identifier: string; status: string; title?: string }> = []) {
   const queryClient = new QueryClient({
     defaultOptions: {
       queries: {
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ function renderMarkdown(children: string, seededIssues: Array<{ identifier: stri
       id: issue.identifier,
       identifier: issue.identifier,
       status: issue.status,
+      title: issue.title,
     });
   }
 
@@ -161,6 +162,17 @@ describe("MarkdownBody", () => {
     expect(html).not.toContain("paperclip-mention-chip--issue");
   });
 
+  it("uses concise issue aria labels until a distinct title is available", () => {
+    const html = renderMarkdown("Depends on PAP-1271 and PAP-1272.", [
+      { identifier: "PAP-1271", status: "done" },
+      { identifier: "PAP-1272", status: "blocked", title: "Fix hover state" },
+    ]);
+
+    expect(html).toContain('aria-label="Issue PAP-1271"');
+    expect(html).toContain('aria-label="Issue PAP-1272: Fix hover state"');
+    expect(html).not.toContain('aria-label="Issue PAP-1271: PAP-1271"');
+  });
+
   it("rewrites full issue URLs to internal issue links", () => {
     const html = renderMarkdown("See http://localhost:3100/PAP/issues/PAP-1179.", [
       { identifier: "PAP-1179", status: "blocked" },
diff --git a/ui/src/components/MarkdownBody.tsx b/ui/src/components/MarkdownBody.tsx
index e4f532aa2b6..6ab4ff3768e 100644
--- a/ui/src/components/MarkdownBody.tsx
+++ b/ui/src/components/MarkdownBody.tsx
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ function MarkdownIssueLink({
   const identifier = data?.identifier ?? issuePathId;
   const title = data?.title ?? identifier;
   const status = data?.status;
+  const issueLabel = title !== identifier ? `Issue ${identifier}: ${title}` : `Issue ${identifier}`;
 
   return (
     <Link
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ function MarkdownIssueLink({
       data-mention-kind="issue"
       className="paperclip-markdown-issue-ref"
       title={title}
-      aria-label={`Issue ${identifier}: ${title}`}
+      aria-label={issueLabel}
     >
       {status ? (
         <StatusIcon status={status} className="mr-1 h-3 w-3 align-[-0.125em]" />