1674458 - rotor puts focus on heading but tabbing doesn't move to next interactive element instead going to top of page

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

When on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi and using rotor to navigate to Client Software heading and then pressing tab, focus starts at top of page instead of at Client Software heading.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Visit https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi
2. VO+U to bring up rotor and arrow to "Client Software" heading
3. Press enter to move to Client Software heading.
4. Press tab to navigate to links below this heading

Results: navigation moves to top of page.
Expected: navigation moves to first interactive element below the Client Software heading.

Tested with today's Nightly on MacOS 10.15.7

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I can reproduce this with some of the headings on Wikipedia as well, Visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and rotor to "From today's featured article" and the bug happens but rotor to "In the news" and it doesn't reproduce.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Not a bug. Expected behavior.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Jamie explained "this occurs because tab is controlled by the browser and moves from the currently focused element to the next element in the tab order. Because you moved to a non-focusable element (a heading), there was nothing VO could focus, so focus remained where it was before"