Bug 31210 – FKA: Even with "Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage", anchors that contain position:absolute spans do not receive focus

• Status: NEW
• Component: Accessibility

[Tim McConnell]

The summary says it all. An <a> that contains a position:absolute <span> will not be part of the page's tab order.

e.g.

<a href="foo"><span style="position:absolute;">Can't tab</span></a>

[Tim McConnell]

Created attachment 42664 [details]
An HTML file that shows two different links; one that's tab-able and one that is not.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Thanks for the reduction!

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

<rdar://problem/7374746>

[James Craig]

*** Bug 51333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Ahmad Saleem]

Firefox Nightly 106 and Safari Technology Preview 152 behave same in this test case and even if you click on visual port and then press 'tab', it focus on address bar, in case of Firefox, the tab does not take focus on links and just keep it to UI elements like back, forward and new tab buttons.

In case of Chrome Canary 107, it focus "Can't Tab" but don't show outline (I verified it with shown small status bar in the bottom left corner) and then next tab take you to next link and have focus outline and new tab will take you to UI / Address bar and next tab will again to "Can't Tab".

I am not sure on expected behavior, so I will tag others to verify and comment. Thanks!