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From: Vsevolod Popov
Date: Aug 4, 2021 5:46AM

Hello,
I have a question regarding focusable elements and navigating with the
tab key issue.
Recently I found 2 websites with the next issue:
When navigating to the top menu with the Tab key, NVDA starts reading
every element in the list starting from the top menu element. The list
is combined in the more lists, and it stopps reading on the last link.
If I press tab again, I can sometimes hear sylence.
I thought this issue could appear because of the tabindex is set to 0 on
all of the <li> elements on a website, but then I encountered the other
website with exactly the same issue and there are no any tab indexes but
the issue exists, when tabbing it starts telling all elements in the top
menu after only 1 press of the tab key instead of just announcing the
first element in the top menu.
Why could it appear and how can it be fixed?
Can it be an issue with CSS?
Or maybe that's just my falt of not knowing something that works in NVDA?
I also ask that because I don't find this thing on an applevis which I
use as the reference.
Thank you!

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Best regards,
Vsevolod
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