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.
Something to try... Maybe?
Go into your system settings, keyboard, just after input sources there is 'edit', hit that, and turn off all the auto corrects etc. this was bugging me in pages and turning it off helped, maybe it will also help in safari edit boxes if it's not trying to 'think' about things.