Log in form is missing critical components through keyboard navigation in Safari
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	Krinkle
	Feb 22 2019, 3:59 PM

Description

Open https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin in Safari 12.0 on macOS 10.14.
Tab once (Username)
Tab again (Password)
Tab again (??)

Expected

The form submit button "Log in" must be reachable by tab navigation.
The checkbox for "Keep me logged in" must be reachable by tab navigation.

Actual

After the username and password fields, the next tab leads to the Search field. That's highly unexpected.

Tabbing again then leads to the browser address bar, which indicates there are no further destinations. And indeed, tabbing again after that starts the sequence again from the start, at the Username field.

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Mentioned In: T267405: CU 2.0: Safari cannot access links inside the Compare and Timeline tabs using keyboard

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Krinkle created this task.Feb 22 2019, 3:59 PM

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Krinkle added a subscriber: Volker_E.Feb 22 2019, 3:59 PM

By default it's not possible to navigate to non text-input elements in Safari. Such a behavior can be enabled under Preferences->Advanced.

Yeah this is one of Safari's quirks. By default tab navigation only works between textfields.
https://www.weba11y.com/blog/2014/07/07/keyboard-navigation-in-mac-browsers/

It's like a mouse having only 1 button....

Tchanders mentioned this in T267405: CU 2.0: Safari cannot access links inside the Compare and Timeline tabs using keyboard.Jul 8 2022, 4:39 PM

Not sure if this is related, but in Firefox, the checkbox and buttons are accessible with the tab key, but hitting enter on the checkbox just confirms the login without changing the state of the checkbox.

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