diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index ec6ff321b8d0ed..47517dde561fbe 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ Vamshikrishna Yellenki <vamshi@motorola.com>
 Vedran Šajatović <vedran.sajatovic@gmail.com>
 Vernon Tang <vt@foilhead.net>
 Viatcheslav Ostapenko <sl.ostapenko@samsung.com>
+Victor Costan <costan@gmail.com>
 Viet-Trung Luu <viettrungluu@gmail.com>
 Vinay Anantharaman <vinaya@adobe.com>
 Vipul Bhasin <vipul.bhasin@gmail.com>
diff --git a/content/browser/accessibility/browser_accessibility_manager_gtk.cc b/content/browser/accessibility/browser_accessibility_manager_gtk.cc
index a6246c5e795bed..2b8bbfc042e1b6 100644
--- a/content/browser/accessibility/browser_accessibility_manager_gtk.cc
+++ b/content/browser/accessibility/browser_accessibility_manager_gtk.cc
@@ -56,11 +56,9 @@ void BrowserAccessibilityManagerGtk::NotifyAccessibilityEvent(
       RecursivelySendChildrenChanged(GetRoot()->ToBrowserAccessibilityGtk());
       break;
     case WebKit::WebAXEventFocus:
-      // Note: atk_focus_tracker_notify may be deprecated in the future;
-      // follow this bug for the replacement:
-      // https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649575#c4
+      // Note: the focus-event was deprecated in ATK 2.9.4
+      // See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649575#c8
       g_signal_emit_by_name(atk_object, "focus-event", true);
-      atk_focus_tracker_notify(atk_object);
       break;
     default:
       break;