@ballar: Please provide test url that contains SVG image to test this issue from TE end. This would help in better triaging of the issue.

Thanks!

User says they can't provide us with a link they are currently working on, but they did test the issue in this link.

https://alligator.io/svg/hyperlinks-svg/ 

User says the same issue happens with the SVG's on that page when TalkBack is on.

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Tested the issue on Android and able to reproduce the issue as per comment#4

Steps followed:
1.Launch chrome >> Navigate to https://alligator.io/svg/hyperlinks-svg/ 
2.Go to system settings>> Accessibility>> Enable talk back
3.Now go to the open svg page and Observed that anchor tag doesn't work while talk back is on 


Chrome versions tested:
60.0.3072.0, 68.0.3440.91(Stable), 70.0.3524.4(Canary)

OS:
Android 7.0

Android Devices:
Samsung J7 

This seems to be a Non-Regression issue as same behavior is seen since M-60. Leaving the issue as Untriaged for further input's on this issue.

Please navigate to below link for log's --
go/chrome-androidlogs/874177
 
Thanks!

The requirement of TalkBack being enabled makes this sound more like an Accessibility bug than an SVG one. (Some code handling HTMLAnchorElement but not SVGAElement perhaps?)

I believe the problem is here:

https://codesearch.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/blink/renderer/modules/accessibility/ax_node_object.cc?rcl=2184511ef940463aaab89abe4959400f8d5aee39&l=1195

It has this check for an anchor node, that only considers HTML link elements. I suspect that SVG would need separate handling.

AXObject* AXNodeObject::InPageLinkTarget() const {
  if (!node_ || !IsHTMLAnchorElement(node_) || !GetDocument())
    return AXObject::InPageLinkTarget();

  HTMLAnchorElement* anchor = ToHTMLAnchorElement(node_);

I might poke around with this if no-one else picks it up.

I can reproduce this on other platforms too, removing the Android label.