diff --git a/extension.json b/extension.json
index 820d429715..885f41cf2d 100644
--- a/extension.json
+++ b/extension.json
@@ -370,10 +370,14 @@
 				"accesskey-ca-editsource",
 				"accesskey-ca-ve-edit",
 				"pipe-separator",
-				"tooltip-ca-createsource",
-				"tooltip-ca-edit",
+				"tooltip-ca-ve-edit",
+				"tooltip-ca-ve-create",
+				"tooltip-ca-ve-edit-local",
+				"tooltip-ca-ve-create-local",
 				"tooltip-ca-editsource",
-				"tooltip-ca-ve-edit"
+				"tooltip-ca-createsource",
+				"tooltip-ca-editsource-local",
+				"tooltip-ca-createsource-local"
 			]
 		},
 		"ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript": {
diff --git a/i18n/ve-mw/en.json b/i18n/ve-mw/en.json
index 6a136a2093..26668de098 100644
--- a/i18n/ve-mw/en.json
+++ b/i18n/ve-mw/en.json
@@ -17,15 +17,25 @@
 			"Zoranzoki21"
 		]
 	},
-	"accesskey-ca-editsource": "e",
 	"accesskey-ca-ve-edit": "v",
+	"accesskey-ca-ve-edit-local": "v",
+	"accesskey-ca-ve-create": "v",
+	"accesskey-ca-ve-create-local": "v",
+	"accesskey-ca-editsource": "e",
+	"accesskey-ca-editsource-local": "e",
+	"accesskey-ca-createsource": "e",
+	"accesskey-ca-createsource-local": "e",
 	"collabpad-doctitle": "CollabPad: $1",
 	"collabpad-import-subtitle": "Imported from $1",
 	"collabpad": "CollabPad",
-	"tooltip-ca-createsource": "Create the source code of this page",
-	"tooltip-ca-edit": "Edit this page using wikitext",
-	"tooltip-ca-editsource": "Edit the source code of this page",
 	"tooltip-ca-ve-edit": "Edit this page",
+	"tooltip-ca-ve-edit-local": "Edit the local description page",
+	"tooltip-ca-ve-create": "Create this page",
+	"tooltip-ca-ve-create-local": "Create the local description page",
+	"tooltip-ca-editsource": "Edit the source code of this page",
+	"tooltip-ca-editsource-local": "Edit the source code of the local description page",
+	"tooltip-ca-createsource": "Create the source code of this page",
+	"tooltip-ca-createsource-local": "Create the source code of the local description page",
 	"visualeditor-advancedsettings-tool": "Advanced settings",
 	"visualeditor-annotations-default-description": "This part of the page is part of an annotation range.",
 	"visualeditor-annotations-default-end": "End of the annotated range",
diff --git a/i18n/ve-mw/qqq.json b/i18n/ve-mw/qqq.json
index 21572ffb81..197e928001 100644
--- a/i18n/ve-mw/qqq.json
+++ b/i18n/ve-mw/qqq.json
@@ -38,15 +38,25 @@
 			"Ата"
 		]
 	},
-	"accesskey-ca-editsource": "{{doc-accesskey}}",
 	"accesskey-ca-ve-edit": "{{doc-accesskey}}",
+	"accesskey-ca-ve-edit-local": "{{doc-accesskey}}",
+	"accesskey-ca-ve-create": "{{doc-accesskey}}",
+	"accesskey-ca-ve-create-local": "{{doc-accesskey}}",
+	"accesskey-ca-editsource": "{{doc-accesskey}}",
+	"accesskey-ca-editsource-local": "{{doc-accesskey}}",
+	"accesskey-ca-createsource": "{{doc-accesskey}}",
+	"accesskey-ca-createsource-local": "{{doc-accesskey}}",
 	"collabpad-doctitle": "Name of CollabPad special page with a document subtitle",
 	"collabpad-import-subtitle": "Subtitle of CollabPad page, linking to the page the content was imported from",
 	"collabpad": "Name of CollabPad special page",
-	"tooltip-ca-createsource": "Tooltip of the {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-ca-createsource}} tab, used if the page does not exist.\n\nSee also:\n* {{msg-mw|Tooltip-ca-editsource}} - tooltip of the {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-ca-editsource}} tab, used if the page already exists",
-	"tooltip-ca-edit": "Over-ridden tooltip of the wikitext \"Edit source\" tab.",
-	"tooltip-ca-editsource": "Tooltip of the {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-ca-editsource}} tab, used if the page already exists.\n\nSee also:\n* {{msg-mw|Tooltip-ca-createsource}} - tooltip of the {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-ca-createsource}} tab, used if the page does not exist",
 	"tooltip-ca-ve-edit": "Tooltip of the dedicated VisualEditor \"Edit\" tab.\n{{Identical|Edit this page}}",
+	"tooltip-ca-ve-edit-local": "Tooltip of the dedicated VisualEditor \"Edit local description\" tab.",
+	"tooltip-ca-ve-create": "Tooltip of the dedicated VisualEditor \"Create\" tab.",
+	"tooltip-ca-ve-create-local": "Tooltip of the dedicated VisualEditor \"Add local description\" tab.",
+	"tooltip-ca-editsource": "Tooltip of the {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-ca-editsource}} tab, used if the page already exists.\n\nSee also:\n* {{msg-mw|Tooltip-ca-createsource}} - tooltip of the {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-ca-createsource}} tab, used if the page does not exist",
+	"tooltip-ca-editsource-local": "Tooltip of the {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-ca-editlocaldescriptionsource}} tab, used if the page already exists.\n\nSee also:\n* {{msg-mw|Tooltip-ca-createsource-local}} - tooltip of the {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-ca-createlocaldescriptionsource}} tab, used if the page does not exist",
+	"tooltip-ca-createsource": "Tooltip of the {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-ca-createsource}} tab, used if the page does not exist.\n\nSee also:\n* {{msg-mw|Tooltip-ca-editsource}} - tooltip of the {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-ca-editsource}} tab, used if the page already exists",
+	"tooltip-ca-createsource-local": "Tooltip of the {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-ca-createlocaldescriptionsource}} tab, used if the page does not exist.\n\nSee also:\n* {{msg-mw|Tooltip-ca-editsource-local}} - tooltip of the {{msg-mw|Visualeditor-ca-editlocaldescriptionsource}} tab, used if the page already exists",
 	"visualeditor-advancedsettings-tool": "Tool for opening the advanced settings section of the meta dialog.\n{{Identical|Advanced settings}}",
 	"visualeditor-annotations-default-description": "Default description for annotated ranges",
 	"visualeditor-annotations-default-end": "Label of the context item for a closing annotation tag without message",
diff --git a/includes/Hooks.php b/includes/Hooks.php
index 952bb94741..5862c9bdfe 100644
--- a/includes/Hooks.php
+++ b/includes/Hooks.php
@@ -550,6 +550,8 @@ class Hooks implements TextSlotDiffRendererTablePrefixHook {
 		// us to splice into the middle of an associative array.
 		$newViews = [];
 		$wikiPageFactory = $services->getWikiPageFactory();
+		$isRemote = $title->inNamespace( NS_FILE ) &&
+			!$wikiPageFactory->newFromTitle( $title )->isLocal();
 		foreach ( $links['views'] as $action => $data ) {
 			if ( $action === 'edit' ) {
 				// Build the VisualEditor tab
@@ -567,32 +569,50 @@ class Hooks implements TextSlotDiffRendererTablePrefixHook {
 				// @phan-suppress-next-line PhanTypeInvalidDimOffset
 				$veTabText = $veTabMessage === null ? $data['text'] :
 					$skin->msg( $veTabMessage )->text();
+				if ( $isRemote ) {
+					// The following messages can be used here:
+					// * tooltip-ca-ve-edit-local
+					// * tooltip-ca-ve-create-local
+					$veTooltip = 'ca-ve-' . $action . '-local';
+				} else {
+					// The following messages can be used here:
+					// * tooltip-ca-ve-edit
+					// * tooltip-ca-ve-create
+					$veTooltip = 'ca-ve-' . $action;
+				}
 				$veTab = [
 					'href' => $title->getLocalURL( $veParams ),
 					'text' => $veTabText,
+					'single-id' => $veTooltip,
 					'primary' => true,
 					'class' => '',
 				];
 
 				// Alter the edit tab
 				$editTab = $data;
-				if (
-					$title->inNamespace( NS_FILE ) &&
-					!$wikiPageFactory->newFromTitle( $title )->isLocal()
-				) {
+				if ( $isRemote ) {
 					// The following messages can be used here:
 					// * visualeditor-ca-editlocaldescriptionsource
 					// * visualeditor-ca-createlocaldescriptionsource
 					$editTabMessage = $tabMessages[$action . 'localdescriptionsource'];
+					// The following messages can be used here:
+					// * tooltip-ca-editsource-local
+					// * tooltip-ca-createsource-local
+					$editTabTooltip = 'ca-' . $action . 'source-local';
 				} else {
 					// The following messages can be used here:
 					// * visualeditor-ca-editsource
 					// * visualeditor-ca-createsource
 					$editTabMessage = $tabMessages[$action . 'source'];
+					// The following messages can be used here:
+					// * tooltip-ca-editsource
+					// * tooltip-ca-createsource
+					$editTabTooltip = 'ca-' . $action . 'source';
 				}
 
 				if ( $editTabMessage !== null ) {
 					$editTab['text'] = $skin->msg( $editTabMessage )->text();
+					$editTab['single-id'] = $editTabTooltip;
 				}
 
 				$editor = self::getLastEditor( $user, $skin->getRequest() );
diff --git a/modules/ve-mw/preinit/ve.init.mw.DesktopArticleTarget.init.js b/modules/ve-mw/preinit/ve.init.mw.DesktopArticleTarget.init.js
index 5cca0b174e..4c58e5ba28 100644
--- a/modules/ve-mw/preinit/ve.init.mw.DesktopArticleTarget.init.js
+++ b/modules/ve-mw/preinit/ve.init.mw.DesktopArticleTarget.init.js
@@ -909,14 +909,15 @@
 				caVeEditNextnode =
 					( conf.tabPosition === 'before' ) ?
 						$caEdit.get( 0 ) :
-						$caEdit.next().get( 0 );
+						$caEdit.next().get( 0 ),
+				isRemote = $( '#ca-view-foreign' ).length;
 
 			if ( !$caVeEdit.length ) {
 				// The below duplicates the functionality of VisualEditorHooks::onSkinTemplateNavigation()
 				// in case we're running on a cached page that doesn't have these tabs yet.
 
 				// Alter the edit tab (#ca-edit)
-				if ( $( '#ca-view-foreign' ).length ) {
+				if ( isRemote ) {
 					if ( tabMessages[ action + 'localdescriptionsource' ] ) {
 						// The following messages can be used here:
 						// * visualeditor-ca-editlocaldescriptionsource
@@ -931,6 +932,13 @@
 						$caEditLink.text( mw.msg( tabMessages[ action + 'source' ] ) );
 					}
 				}
+				// The following messages can be used here:
+				// * tooltip-ca-editsource
+				// * tooltip-ca-createsource
+				// * tooltip-ca-editsource-local
+				// * tooltip-ca-createsource-local
+				$caEditLink.attr( 'title', mw.msg( 'tooltip-ca-' + action + 'source' + ( isRemote ? '-local' : '' ) ) );
+				$caEditLink.updateTooltipAccessKeys();
 
 				// If there is no edit tab or a view-source tab,
 				// the user doesn't have permission to edit.
@@ -944,9 +952,14 @@
 						// 2) when onEditTabClick is not bound (!pageCanLoadEditor) it will
 						// just work.
 						veEditUrl,
-						getTabMessage( action + ( $( '#ca-view-foreign' ).length ? '-local' : '' ) ),
+						getTabMessage( action + ( isRemote ? '-local' : '' ) ),
 						'ca-ve-edit',
-						mw.msg( 'tooltip-ca-ve-edit' ),
+						// The following messages can be used here:
+						// * tooltip-ca-ve-edit
+						// * tooltip-ca-ve-create
+						// * tooltip-ca-ve-edit-local
+						// * tooltip-ca-ve-create-local
+						mw.msg( 'tooltip-ca-ve-' + action + ( isRemote ? '-local' : '' ) ),
 						mw.msg( 'accesskey-ca-ve-edit' ),
 						caVeEditNextnode
 					);
@@ -967,7 +980,14 @@
 						$caEdit.after( $caVeEdit );
 					}
 				}
-				$caVeEditLink.text( getTabMessage( action + ( $( '#ca-view-foreign' ).length ? '-local' : '' ) ) );
+				$caVeEditLink.text( getTabMessage( action + ( isRemote ? '-local' : '' ) ) );
+				// The following messages can be used here:
+				// * tooltip-ca-ve-edit
+				// * tooltip-ca-ve-create
+				// * tooltip-ca-ve-edit-local
+				// * tooltip-ca-ve-create-local
+				$caVeEditLink.attr( 'title', mw.msg( 'tooltip-ca-ve-' + action + ( isRemote ? '-local' : '' ) ) );
+				$caVeEditLink.updateTooltipAccessKeys();
 			}
 
 			// If the edit tab is hidden, remove it.