diff --git a/js/PhetButton.js b/js/PhetButton.js
index d3bbf83a..68502791 100644
--- a/js/PhetButton.js
+++ b/js/PhetButton.js
@@ -11,14 +11,15 @@ import Property from '../../axon/js/Property.js';
 import inherit from '../../phet-core/js/inherit.js';
 import Image from '../../scenery/js/nodes/Image.js';
 import Node from '../../scenery/js/nodes/Node.js';
-import joist from './joist.js';
-import joistStrings from './joistStrings.js';
+import Tandem from '../../tandem/js/Tandem.js';
 import JoistButton from './JoistButton.js';
 import KebabMenuIcon from './KebabMenuIcon.js';
 import PhetButtonIO from './PhetButtonIO.js';
 import PhetMenu from './PhetMenu.js';
-import updateCheck from './updateCheck.js';
 import UpdateState from './UpdateState.js';
+import joist from './joist.js';
+import joistStrings from './joistStrings.js';
+import updateCheck from './updateCheck.js';
 
 // Accommodate logos of any height by scaling them down proportionately.
 // The primary logo is 108px high and we have been scaling it at 0.28 to make it look good even on higher resolution
@@ -95,6 +96,12 @@ function PhetButton( sim, backgroundFillProperty, tandem ) {
       phetioFeatured: true
     },
 
+    visiblePropertyOptions: {
+      // TODO: Shouldn't it be read-only instead of uninstrumented? See https://github.com/phetsims/scenery/issues/1046
+      tandem: Tandem.OPT_OUT,
+      phetioReadOnly: true
+    },
+
     // pdom
     tagName: 'button',
     innerContent: joistStrings.a11y.phetMenu
diff --git a/js/PhetMenu.js b/js/PhetMenu.js
index 61420ad7..48dd6709 100644
--- a/js/PhetMenu.js
+++ b/js/PhetMenu.js
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ import openPopup from '../../phet-core/js/openPopup.js';
 import platform from '../../phet-core/js/platform.js';
 import stripEmbeddingMarks from '../../phet-core/js/stripEmbeddingMarks.js';
 import PhetFont from '../../scenery-phet/js/PhetFont.js';
-import PDOMUtils from '../../scenery/js/accessibility/pdom/PDOMUtils.js';
 import KeyboardUtils from '../../scenery/js/accessibility/KeyboardUtils.js';
+import PDOMUtils from '../../scenery/js/accessibility/pdom/PDOMUtils.js';
 import Display from '../../scenery/js/display/Display.js';
 import Node from '../../scenery/js/nodes/Node.js';
 import Path from '../../scenery/js/nodes/Path.js';
@@ -28,15 +28,16 @@ import MenuItem from '../../sun/js/MenuItem.js';
 import soundManager from '../../tambo/js/soundManager.js';
 import PhetioCapsule from '../../tandem/js/PhetioCapsule.js';
 import PhetioCapsuleIO from '../../tandem/js/PhetioCapsuleIO.js';
+import Tandem from '../../tandem/js/Tandem.js';
 import AboutDialog from './AboutDialog.js';
-import joistStrings from './joistStrings.js';
-import joist from './joist.js';
 import OptionsDialog from './OptionsDialog.js';
 import PhetMenuIO from './PhetMenuIO.js';
 import ScreenshotGenerator from './ScreenshotGenerator.js';
-import updateCheck from './updateCheck.js';
 import UpdateDialog from './UpdateDialog.js';
 import UpdateState from './UpdateState.js';
+import joist from './joist.js';
+import joistStrings from './joistStrings.js';
+import updateCheck from './updateCheck.js';
 
 const menuItemAboutString = joistStrings.menuItem.about;
 const menuItemEnhancedSoundString = joistStrings.menuItem.enhancedSound;
@@ -106,6 +107,12 @@ function PhetMenu( sim, phetButton, tandem, options ) {
     phetioState: false,
     phetioDocumentation: 'This menu is displayed when the PhET button is pressed.',
 
+    visiblePropertyOptions: {
+      // TODO: Shouldn't it be read-only instead of uninstrumented? See https://github.com/phetsims/scenery/issues/1046
+      tandem: Tandem.OPT_OUT,
+      phetioReadOnly: true
+    },
+
     // pdom, tagname and role for content in the menu
     tagName: 'ul',
     ariaRole: 'menu'