diff --git a/php-transformer/src/HtmlToBlocks/Classification/FormControlClassifier.php b/php-transformer/src/HtmlToBlocks/Classification/FormControlClassifier.php
index 494cc7792..164e38fdf 100644
--- a/php-transformer/src/HtmlToBlocks/Classification/FormControlClassifier.php
+++ b/php-transformer/src/HtmlToBlocks/Classification/FormControlClassifier.php
@@ -212,8 +212,9 @@ public static function isNonAuthoredControl(DOMElement $control): bool
     }
 
     /**
-     * An untabbable free-text field is a trap when aria-hidden on itself, or
-     * invisible and non-interactive on itself or its immediate field container.
+     * An untabbable free-text field is a trap when aria-hidden on itself or on
+     * an ancestor inside its form, or invisible and non-interactive on itself
+     * or its immediate field container.
      * Choice and select value carriers share those attributes beside their
      * visible widget, so only free-text entry qualifies.
      */
@@ -229,7 +230,8 @@ private static function isUnreachableTextTrap(DOMElement $control): bool
             || ! in_array(self::controlType($control), array( 'text', 'email', 'url', 'tel', 'search', 'number' ), true) ) ) {
             return false;
         }
-        if ( 'true' === strtolower(trim($control->getAttribute('aria-hidden'))) ) {
+        if ( 'true' === strtolower(trim($control->getAttribute('aria-hidden')))
+            || null !== self::ariaHiddenFormAncestor($control) ) {
             return true;
         }
         foreach ( array( $control, $control->parentNode ) as $element ) {
@@ -251,6 +253,26 @@ private static function isUnreachableTextTrap(DOMElement $control): bool
         return false;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The outermost `aria-hidden="true"` ancestor between a control and its
+     * native form, or null when the control sits outside a form or no
+     * ancestor below the form is hidden from assistive technology.
+     */
+    private static function ariaHiddenFormAncestor(DOMElement $control): ?DOMElement
+    {
+        $hidden = null;
+        for ( $parent = $control->parentNode; $parent instanceof DOMElement; $parent = $parent->parentNode ) {
+            if ( 'form' === strtolower($parent->tagName) ) {
+                return $hidden;
+            }
+            if ( 'true' === strtolower(trim($parent->getAttribute('aria-hidden'))) ) {
+                $hidden = $parent;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return null;
+    }
+
     /**
      * A decoy field bots fill and no reader sees: `aria-hidden="true"`, out of
      * the tab order, and hidden or moved off-screen by inline style — all
@@ -268,9 +290,11 @@ public static function isHoneypotControl(DOMElement $control): bool
 
     /**
      * A trap owns its associated/wrapping label and its immediate field
-     * container's copy. Never claim a form/group or a container shared with
-     * a real control, and count raw controls here (authored enumeration has
-     * already dropped the traps).
+     * container's copy. A trap hidden by an aria-hidden ancestor inside its
+     * form also owns every container up to and including that ancestor.
+     * Never claim a form/group or a container shared with a real control,
+     * and count raw controls here (authored enumeration has already dropped
+     * the traps).
      *
      * @return array<int, DOMElement>
      */
@@ -285,22 +309,36 @@ public static function honeypotCopyElements(DOMElement $form): array
             if ( null !== $label ) {
                 $elements[] = $label;
             }
-            $container = $control->parentNode;
-            if ( ! $container instanceof DOMElement
-                || in_array(strtolower($container->tagName), array( 'form', 'fieldset', 'body', 'html' ), true) ) {
-                continue;
-            }
-            foreach ( $container->getElementsByTagName('*') as $sibling ) {
-                if ( $sibling instanceof DOMElement && self::isControlElement($sibling) && ! self::isHoneypotControl($sibling) ) {
-                    continue 2;
+            $hiddenAncestor = self::isUnreachableTextTrap($control) ? self::ariaHiddenFormAncestor($control) : null;
+            for ( $container = $control->parentNode; $container instanceof DOMElement; $container = $container->parentNode ) {
+                if ( in_array(strtolower($container->tagName), array( 'form', 'fieldset', 'body', 'html' ), true)
+                    || self::holdsAuthoredControl($container) ) {
+                    break;
+                }
+                if ( ! in_array($container, $elements, true) ) {
+                    $elements[] = $container;
+                }
+                if ( null === $hiddenAncestor || $container === $hiddenAncestor ) {
+                    break;
                 }
             }
-            $elements[] = $container;
         }
 
         return $elements;
     }
 
+    /** Whether a container holds a raw control that is not a honeypot. */
+    private static function holdsAuthoredControl(DOMElement $container): bool
+    {
+        foreach ( $container->getElementsByTagName('*') as $element ) {
+            if ( $element instanceof DOMElement && self::isControlElement($element) && ! self::isHoneypotControl($element) ) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
     /** The control's wrapping label when that label, not the control, carries the honeypot signals. */
     private static function honeypotSignalLabel(DOMElement $control): ?DOMElement
     {
diff --git a/php-transformer/tests/unit/invisible-unreachable-text-trap.php b/php-transformer/tests/unit/invisible-unreachable-text-trap.php
index a9cec4378..f41ea7e8f 100644
--- a/php-transformer/tests/unit/invisible-unreachable-text-trap.php
+++ b/php-transformer/tests/unit/invisible-unreachable-text-trap.php
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 require dirname(__DIR__, 2) . '/vendor/autoload.php';
 
+use Automattic\BlocksEngine\PhpTransformer\ArtifactCompiler\ArtifactCompiler;
 use Automattic\BlocksEngine\PhpTransformer\HtmlToBlocks\Classification\FormControlClassifier;
 
 $failures = 0;
@@ -64,5 +65,56 @@
     $assert(1 === count(FormControlClassifier::controlElements($parse($html))), $boundary . ' is not a field container signal');
 }
 
+// An untabbable free-text trap hidden by an aria-hidden wrapper inside its
+// form: the wrapper, its label, and the control stay out of readable blocks.
+$wrapper = '<div aria-hidden="true" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidden">'
+    . '<label>Leave empty<input type="text" name="hp" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off"></label></div>';
+$contact = '<main><form method="post" action="/contact">'
+    . '<p><label for="name">Name</label><input type="text" id="name" name="name"></p>'
+    . '<p><label for="email">Email</label><input type="email" id="email" name="email"></p>'
+    . '<p><label for="message">Message</label><textarea id="message" name="message"></textarea></p>'
+    . $wrapper
+    . '<button type="submit">Send</button></form></main>';
+
+$form = $parse($contact);
+$names = array_map(static fn (DOMElement $control): string => $control->getAttribute('name'), FormControlClassifier::controlElements($form));
+$assert(! in_array('hp', $names, true) && array( 'name', 'email', 'message' ) === array_values(array_filter($names)), 'aria-hidden ancestor trap is not an authored control', json_encode($names));
+$copy = FormControlClassifier::honeypotCopyElements($form);
+$assert(in_array($form->getElementsByTagName('label')->item(3), $copy, true), 'aria-hidden ancestor trap owns its label');
+$assert(in_array($form->getElementsByTagName('div')->item(0), $copy, true), 'aria-hidden ancestor trap owns its trap-only wrapper');
+
+$result = ( new ArtifactCompiler() )->compile(array(
+    'entrypoint' => 'index.html',
+    'files' => array( 'index.html' => $contact ),
+))->toArray();
+$readable = $result['fallbacks'][0]['readable_blocks'] ?? array();
+$assert(array() !== $readable, 'contact form yields readable blocks');
+$blockNames = array();
+$emptyGroups = 0;
+$walk = static function (array $blocks) use (&$walk, &$blockNames, &$emptyGroups): void {
+    foreach ( $blocks as $block ) {
+        $blockNames[] = $block['blockName'] ?? null;
+        $inner = $block['innerBlocks'] ?? array();
+        if ( 'core/group' === ( $block['blockName'] ?? null ) && array() === $inner ) {
+            ++$emptyGroups;
+        }
+        $walk($inner);
+    }
+};
+$walk($readable);
+$assert(! in_array('core/html', $blockNames, true), 'aria-hidden wrapper trap leaves no core/html in readable blocks', json_encode($blockNames));
+$assert(! str_contains((string) json_encode($readable), 'Leave empty'), 'no trap label text reaches readable blocks');
+$assert(1 === count(array_keys($blockNames, 'core/group', true)) && 0 === $emptyGroups, 'the trap wrapper container is gone from readable blocks', json_encode($blockNames));
+$layoutGraph = (string) json_encode($result['fallbacks'][0]['layout_graph'] ?? array());
+$assert(! str_contains($layoutGraph, 'Leave empty') && ! str_contains($layoutGraph, '"hp"'), 'no trap markup reaches the form layout graph');
+
+// Choice carriers under the same aria-hidden wrapper keep their behaviour.
+$form = $parse('<form>' . str_replace('type="text"', 'type="checkbox"', $wrapper) . '</form>');
+$assert(array() === FormControlClassifier::honeypotCopyElements($form), 'aria-hidden wrapper does not make a choice carrier a trap');
+
+// The ancestor walk is bounded by the form.
+$form = $parse('<div aria-hidden="true"><form><input type="text" name="hp" tabindex="-1"></form></div>');
+$assert(array() === FormControlClassifier::honeypotCopyElements($form), 'aria-hidden outside the form does not make a text trap');
+
 fwrite(STDOUT, "invisible unreachable text trap: {$failures} failures\n");
 exit($failures > 0 ? 1 : 0);