Safari poor keyboard navigation support

[MatteoGabriele]

Safari's keyboard navigation across multiple pages is quite limited, often skipping entire sections and key elements.

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[alexdln]

Hmm, in the video it looks like these are exactly the places with elements where we have sr-only tabable elements

Could you please test the hypothesis, for example by removing the submit btn right after the search input on internal pages?

[MatteoGabriele]

Unfortunately, that isn't working either. I haven't dived deep yet. I'll look into the issue later today and hopefully land on a solution.
I also want to check more browser to see if it's not just safari

[alexdln]

Thanks

In windows - Chrome (normal and canary) / Edge / Firefox works correctly

[MatteoGabriele]

Can I be speechless for a minute? 😆 What is this? Do I need to enable it?

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[knowler]

Yes, this is the standard behaviour of Safari—you have to enable fuller keyboard navigation. I don’t think we should cater to it (i.e. some people will use tabindex=0 to get around it). If Apple wants to make their platform more usable, they should change the defaults (and stop hurting the web while they’re at it).

I personally would close this as “won’t fix.”

Adrian Roselli’s got a good collection of articles on the topic: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/08/before-filing-that-keyboard-bug.html

[MatteoGabriele]

Yes, I'll close this one.