1804566 - (Firefox MacOS) Cannot focus on <a /> anchor element using tab key

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1036966

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[edjones1999]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:107.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/107.0

Steps to reproduce:

Create a simple web page including the following:

<a href="https://google.com" role="button" tabindex="0">This should be focusable</a>

This element should be focusable using the tab key, however it isn't.

Actual results:

The <a /> element is not focused, even with role="button" and tabindex="0"

Expected results:

The element should be focused with the tab key

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Tabbed Browser' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Hani Yacoub, Desktop QA]

Managed to reproduce the issue on macOS 11.6. The issue is not reproducible on Windows 10 x64 nor on Ubuntu 20.04 x64.

Comment 3

[Issam Mani [:issammani]]

It seems that this is related to this pref accessibility.tabfocus not being set in macos. In windows and linux, this defaults to the value 7. Is there a reason behind this ?

Comment 4

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]]

This is a system setting, behavior matches safari, see bug 1036966.