The group with the settings is located within four nested group elements, whereby none of these groups have group labels.

[TheOneRing]

Please validate.

[erikjv]

Windows with Narrator: It's a bit hard to say, but I do sometimes get "Settings pane, group, group, navigation bar, pane". So it looks like it's actually the navigation bar causing this?

macOS: nothing weird

[erikjv]

Note: it is a known issue that the network settings get tab-focus after the buttons on the bottom had tab-focus.

[erikjv]

Note: it is a known issue that the network settings get tab-focus after the buttons on the bottom had tab-focus.

This has been fixed.

[erikjv]

Closing this issue, replacing it with #11865 which has a better description and a less confusing set of comments.