diff --git a/gtk/a11y/atspi/Event.xml b/gtk/a11y/atspi/Event.xml
index 361435883e..caa0118959 100644
--- a/gtk/a11y/atspi/Event.xml
+++ b/gtk/a11y/atspi/Event.xml
@@ -184,10 +184,4 @@
         </signal>
 </interface>
 
-<interface name="org.a11y.atspi.Event.Focus">
-	<signal name="Focus"><arg direction="in" type="(suuv)"/>
-          <annotation name="org.qtproject.QtDBus.QtTypeName.In0" value="QSpiEvent"/>
-        </signal>
-</interface>
-
 </node>
diff --git a/gtk/a11y/gtkatspicontext.c b/gtk/a11y/gtkatspicontext.c
index b6557148b4..dc3105fa38 100644
--- a/gtk/a11y/gtkatspicontext.c
+++ b/gtk/a11y/gtkatspicontext.c
@@ -899,24 +899,6 @@ emit_children_changed (GtkAtSpiContext         *self,
                                     context_ref);
 }
 
-static void
-emit_focus (GtkAtSpiContext *self,
-            gboolean         focus_in)
-{
-  if (self->connection == NULL)
-    return;
-
-  if (focus_in)
-    g_dbus_connection_emit_signal (self->connection,
-                                   NULL,
-                                   self->context_path,
-                                   "org.a11y.atspi.Event.Focus",
-                                   "Focus",
-                                   g_variant_new ("(siiva{sv})",
-                                                  "", 0, 0, g_variant_new_string ("0"), NULL),
-                                   NULL);
-}
-
 static void
 emit_window_event (GtkAtSpiContext *self,
                    const char      *event_type)
@@ -1196,7 +1178,6 @@ gtk_at_spi_context_platform_change (GtkATContext                *ctx,
       gboolean state = gtk_accessible_get_platform_state (GTK_ACCESSIBLE (widget),
                                                           GTK_ACCESSIBLE_PLATFORM_STATE_FOCUSED);
       emit_state_changed (self, "focused", state);
-      emit_focus (self, state);
     }
 
   if (changed_platform & GTK_ACCESSIBLE_PLATFORM_CHANGE_ACTIVE)