Safari ignoring tabindex

Question

I have 2 buttons next to a textbox and another textbox after the 2 buttons. The tabindex for the first textbox is 1000, the first button is 1001 and the second button is 10

Answer 1

Making Safari and a Mac accessible:

Testing on a Mac: System Preferences -> Keyboard -> ShortCuts (tab) -> Full Keyboard Access -> All Controls

For Tabbing to work on Safari: Preferences -> Advanced -> Press tab to highlight each item on a page (check this)