You'd scarcely believe it, but it's true: as so often happens, at some point a Safari update breaks accessibility on an earlier OS to which it's backported. Here on Sonoma on my 2020 iMac, with the latest Safari 26.1, I get dropped character announcements while typing, editing with the cursor keys is sometimes challenging (especially when dealing with fields that have autofill suggestions), and sometimes—much more than is usual—Safari just freezes (I get the dreaded "Safari Not Responding") and only quitting or killing the app and restarting it brings it back.
Anyone else? Or, possibly, does this sound familiar to anyone running Safari on anything later than Sonoma, and is this perhaps my cue to finally get the upgrade done?
Naturally, no issue on Chrome ...
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Yes, I can reproduce this and I'm on Tahoe. Also, braille output is broken too in many ways.
Will Try Disabling Suggestions
Thanks Oliver, will give this a go at some point, meanwhile this is confirmed happening on Sequoia as well. I suspect Apple just didn't backdate relevant fixes for accessibility or something, Safari being a core app. I just pray I don't run into the issue too frequently, especially when filling in forms, until I get 'round to the Tahoe upgrade. This Mac's in need of a good tidying up, anyway.