diff --git a/src/gui/kernel/qwidget.cpp b/src/gui/kernel/qwidget.cpp
index 60f20644c7..231fc261d7 100644
--- a/src/gui/kernel/qwidget.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/kernel/qwidget.cpp
@@ -6443,6 +6443,10 @@ void QWidget::setFocus(Qt::FocusReason reason)
         // The negation of the condition in setFocus_sys
         if (!(testAttribute(Qt::WA_WState_Created) && window()->windowType() != Qt::Popup && internalWinId()))
             //setFocusWidget will already post a focus event for us (that the AT client receives) on Windows
+# endif
+# ifdef  Q_OS_UNIX
+        // menus update the focus manually and this would create bogus events
+        if (!(f->inherits("QMenuBar") || f->inherits("QMenu") || f->inherits("QMenuItem")))
 # endif
             QAccessible::updateAccessibility(f, 0, QAccessible::Focus);
 #endif