diff --git a/packages/flutter/lib/src/rendering/paragraph.dart b/packages/flutter/lib/src/rendering/paragraph.dart
index 294efbb..41ca3ba 100644
--- a/packages/flutter/lib/src/rendering/paragraph.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter/lib/src/rendering/paragraph.dart
@@ -54,6 +54,32 @@
   }
 }
 
+/// Used by the [RenderParagraph] to map its rendering children to their
+/// corresponding semantics nodes.
+///
+/// The [RichText] uses this to tag the relation between its placeholder spans
+/// and their semantics nodes.
+@immutable
+class PlaceholderSpanIndexSemanticsTag extends SemanticsTag {
+  /// Creates a semantics tag with the input `index`.
+  ///
+  /// Different [PlaceholderSpanIndexSemanticsTag]s with the same `index` are
+  /// consider the same.
+  const PlaceholderSpanIndexSemanticsTag(this.index) : super('PlaceholderSpanIndexSemanticsTag($index)');
+
+  /// The index of this tag.
+  final int index;
+
+  @override
+  bool operator ==(Object other) {
+    return other is PlaceholderSpanIndexSemanticsTag
+        && other.index == index;
+  }
+
+  @override
+  int get hashCode => hashValues(PlaceholderSpanIndexSemanticsTag, index);
+}
+
 /// A render object that displays a paragraph of text.
 class RenderParagraph extends RenderBox
     with ContainerRenderObjectMixin<RenderBox, TextParentData>,
@@ -878,6 +904,7 @@
     double ordinal = 0.0;
     int start = 0;
     int placeholderIndex = 0;
+    int childIndex = 0;
     RenderBox? child = firstChild;
     final Queue<SemanticsNode> newChildCache = Queue<SemanticsNode>();
     for (final InlineSpanSemanticsInformation info in _combineSemanticsInfo()) {
@@ -915,8 +942,11 @@
       );
 
       if (info.isPlaceholder) {
-        if (children.isNotEmpty) {
-          final SemanticsNode childNode = children.elementAt(placeholderIndex++);
+        // A placeholder span may have 0 to multple semantics nodes, we need
+        // to annotate all of the semantics nodes belong to this span.
+        while (children.length > childIndex &&
+               children.elementAt(childIndex).isTagged(PlaceholderSpanIndexSemanticsTag(placeholderIndex))) {
+          final SemanticsNode childNode = children.elementAt(childIndex);
           final TextParentData parentData = child!.parentData! as TextParentData;
           childNode.rect = Rect.fromLTWH(
             childNode.rect.left,
@@ -925,8 +955,10 @@
             childNode.rect.height * parentData.scale!,
           );
           newChildren.add(childNode);
-          child = childAfter(child);
+          childIndex += 1;
         }
+        child = childAfter(child!);
+        placeholderIndex += 1;
       } else {
         final SemanticsConfiguration configuration = SemanticsConfiguration()
           ..sortKey = OrdinalSortKey(ordinal++)
@@ -962,6 +994,10 @@
         newChildren.add(newChild);
       }
     }
+    // Makes sure we annotated all of the semantics children.
+    assert(childIndex == children.length);
+    assert(child == null);
+
     _cachedChildNodes = newChildCache;
     node.updateWith(config: config, childrenInInversePaintOrder: newChildren);
   }
diff --git a/packages/flutter/lib/src/rendering/proxy_box.dart b/packages/flutter/lib/src/rendering/proxy_box.dart
index 40879c3..844b1bb 100644
--- a/packages/flutter/lib/src/rendering/proxy_box.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter/lib/src/rendering/proxy_box.dart
@@ -3600,6 +3600,7 @@
     SemanticsHintOverrides? hintOverrides,
     TextDirection? textDirection,
     SemanticsSortKey? sortKey,
+    SemanticsTag? tagForChildren,
     VoidCallback? onTap,
     VoidCallback? onDismiss,
     VoidCallback? onLongPress,
@@ -3655,6 +3656,7 @@
        _hintOverrides = hintOverrides,
        _textDirection = textDirection,
        _sortKey = sortKey,
+       _tagForChildren = tagForChildren,
        _onTap = onTap,
        _onLongPress = onLongPress,
        _onScrollLeft = onScrollLeft,
@@ -4072,6 +4074,16 @@
     markNeedsSemanticsUpdate();
   }
 
+  /// Adds a semenatics tag to the semantics subtree.
+  SemanticsTag? get tagForChildren => _tagForChildren;
+  SemanticsTag? _tagForChildren;
+  set tagForChildren(SemanticsTag? value) {
+    if (_tagForChildren == value)
+      return;
+    markNeedsSemanticsUpdate();
+    _tagForChildren = value;
+  }
+
   /// The handler for [SemanticsAction.tap].
   ///
   /// This is the semantic equivalent of a user briefly tapping the screen with
@@ -4549,6 +4561,8 @@
       config.textDirection = textDirection;
     if (sortKey != null)
       config.sortKey = sortKey;
+    if (tagForChildren != null)
+      config.addTagForChildren(tagForChildren!);
     // Registering _perform* as action handlers instead of the user provided
     // ones to ensure that changing a user provided handler from a non-null to
     // another non-null value doesn't require a semantics update.
diff --git a/packages/flutter/lib/src/semantics/semantics.dart b/packages/flutter/lib/src/semantics/semantics.dart
index 882bae6..4665ed0 100644
--- a/packages/flutter/lib/src/semantics/semantics.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter/lib/src/semantics/semantics.dart
@@ -610,6 +610,7 @@
     this.hintOverrides,
     this.textDirection,
     this.sortKey,
+    this.tagForChildren,
     this.onTap,
     this.onLongPress,
     this.onScrollLeft,
@@ -913,6 +914,22 @@
   /// on iOS and TalkBack on Android).
   final SemanticsSortKey? sortKey;
 
+  /// A tag to be applied to the child [SemanticsNode]s of this widget.
+  ///
+  /// The tag is added to all child [SemanticsNode]s that pass through the
+  /// [RenderObject] corresponding to this widget while looking to be attached
+  /// to a parent SemanticsNode.
+  ///
+  /// Tags are used to communicate to a parent SemanticsNode that a child
+  /// SemanticsNode was passed through a particular RenderObject. The parent can
+  /// use this information to determine the shape of the semantics tree.
+  ///
+  /// See also:
+  ///
+  ///  * [SemanticsConfiguration.addTagForChildren], to which the tags provided
+  ///    here will be passed.
+  final SemanticsTag? tagForChildren;
+
   /// The handler for [SemanticsAction.tap].
   ///
   /// This is the semantic equivalent of a user briefly tapping the screen with
diff --git a/packages/flutter/lib/src/widgets/basic.dart b/packages/flutter/lib/src/widgets/basic.dart
index a363f36..f41e05d 100644
--- a/packages/flutter/lib/src/widgets/basic.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter/lib/src/widgets/basic.dart
@@ -5456,10 +5456,14 @@
   // Traverses the InlineSpan tree and depth-first collects the list of
   // child widgets that are created in WidgetSpans.
   static List<Widget> _extractChildren(InlineSpan span) {
+    int index = 0;
     final List<Widget> result = <Widget>[];
     span.visitChildren((InlineSpan span) {
       if (span is WidgetSpan) {
-        result.add(span.child);
+        result.add(Semantics(
+          tagForChildren: PlaceholderSpanIndexSemanticsTag(index++),
+          child: span.child,
+        ));
       }
       return true;
     });
@@ -6890,6 +6894,7 @@
     String? onLongPressHint,
     TextDirection? textDirection,
     SemanticsSortKey? sortKey,
+    SemanticsTag? tagForChildren,
     VoidCallback? onTap,
     VoidCallback? onLongPress,
     VoidCallback? onScrollLeft,
@@ -6944,6 +6949,7 @@
       hint: hint,
       textDirection: textDirection,
       sortKey: sortKey,
+      tagForChildren: tagForChildren,
       onTap: onTap,
       onLongPress: onLongPress,
       onScrollLeft: onScrollLeft,
@@ -7060,6 +7066,7 @@
       hintOverrides: properties.hintOverrides,
       textDirection: _getTextDirection(context),
       sortKey: properties.sortKey,
+      tagForChildren: properties.tagForChildren,
       onTap: properties.onTap,
       onLongPress: properties.onLongPress,
       onScrollLeft: properties.onScrollLeft,
@@ -7131,6 +7138,7 @@
       ..namesRoute = properties.namesRoute
       ..textDirection = _getTextDirection(context)
       ..sortKey = properties.sortKey
+      ..tagForChildren = properties.tagForChildren
       ..onTap = properties.onTap
       ..onLongPress = properties.onLongPress
       ..onScrollLeft = properties.onScrollLeft
diff --git a/packages/flutter/test/widgets/semantics_test.dart b/packages/flutter/test/widgets/semantics_test.dart
index 314f74f..1c4aa2a 100644
--- a/packages/flutter/test/widgets/semantics_test.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter/test/widgets/semantics_test.dart
@@ -387,6 +387,54 @@
     semantics.dispose();
   });
 
+    testWidgets('Semantics tagForChildren works', (WidgetTester tester) async {
+    final SemanticsTester semantics = SemanticsTester(tester);
+
+    await tester.pumpWidget(
+      Directionality(
+        textDirection: TextDirection.ltr,
+        child: Semantics(
+          container: true,
+          tagForChildren: const SemanticsTag('custom tag'),
+          child: Column(
+            children: <Widget>[
+              Semantics(
+                container: true,
+                child: const Text('child 1'),
+              ),
+              Semantics(
+                container: true,
+                child: const Text('child 2'),
+              ),
+            ],
+          ),
+        ),
+      ),
+    );
+
+    final TestSemantics expectedSemantics = TestSemantics.root(
+      children: <TestSemantics>[
+        TestSemantics.rootChild(
+          children: <TestSemantics>[
+            TestSemantics(
+              label: 'child 1',
+              tags: <SemanticsTag>[const SemanticsTag('custom tag')],
+              textDirection: TextDirection.ltr,
+            ),
+            TestSemantics(
+              label: 'child 2',
+              tags: <SemanticsTag>[const SemanticsTag('custom tag')],
+              textDirection: TextDirection.ltr,
+            ),
+          ]
+        ),
+      ],
+    );
+
+    expect(semantics, hasSemantics(expectedSemantics, ignoreTransform: true, ignoreRect: true, ignoreId: true));
+    semantics.dispose();
+  });
+
   testWidgets('Semantics widget supports all actions', (WidgetTester tester) async {
     final SemanticsTester semantics = SemanticsTester(tester);
 
diff --git a/packages/flutter/test/widgets/text_test.dart b/packages/flutter/test/widgets/text_test.dart
index d1edba2..5065624 100644
--- a/packages/flutter/test/widgets/text_test.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter/test/widgets/text_test.dart
@@ -1039,6 +1039,176 @@
       ],
     )));
   }, semanticsEnabled: true, skip: isBrowser); // Browser semantics have different sizes.
+
+  // Regression test for https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/69787
+  testWidgets('WidgetSpans with no semantic information are elided from semantics - case 2', (WidgetTester tester) async {
+    final SemanticsTester semantics = SemanticsTester(tester);
+    await tester.pumpWidget(
+      Directionality(
+        textDirection: TextDirection.ltr,
+        child: RichText(
+          text: TextSpan(children: <InlineSpan>[
+            const WidgetSpan(child: SizedBox.shrink()),
+            const WidgetSpan(child: Text('included')),
+            TextSpan(
+              text: 'HELLO',
+              style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.black),
+              recognizer: TapGestureRecognizer()..onTap = () {},
+            ),
+            const WidgetSpan(child: Text('included2')),
+          ]),
+        ),
+      )
+    );
+
+    expect(semantics, hasSemantics(TestSemantics.root(
+      children: <TestSemantics>[
+        TestSemantics(
+          children: <TestSemantics>[
+            TestSemantics(label: 'included'),
+            TestSemantics(
+              label: 'HELLO',
+              actions: <SemanticsAction>[
+                SemanticsAction.tap,
+              ],
+              flags: <SemanticsFlag>[
+                SemanticsFlag.isLink,
+              ],
+            ),
+            TestSemantics(label: 'included2'),
+          ],
+        ),
+      ],
+    ),
+    ignoreId: true,
+    ignoreRect: true,
+    ignoreTransform: true,
+    ));
+  }, semanticsEnabled: true, skip: isBrowser); // Browser does not support widget span.
+
+  // Regression test for https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/69787
+  testWidgets('WidgetSpans with no semantic information are elided from semantics - case 3', (WidgetTester tester) async {
+    final SemanticsTester semantics = SemanticsTester(tester);
+    await tester.pumpWidget(
+      Directionality(
+        textDirection: TextDirection.ltr,
+        child: RichText(
+          text: TextSpan(children: <InlineSpan>[
+            const WidgetSpan(child: SizedBox.shrink()),
+            WidgetSpan(
+              child: Row(
+                children: <Widget>[
+                  Semantics(
+                    container: true,
+                    child: const Text('foo'),
+                  ),
+                  Semantics(
+                    container: true,
+                    child: const Text('bar'),
+                  ),
+                ],
+              ),
+            ),
+            TextSpan(
+              text: 'HELLO',
+              style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.black),
+              recognizer: TapGestureRecognizer()..onTap = () {},
+            ),
+          ]),
+        ),
+      )
+    );
+
+    expect(semantics, hasSemantics(TestSemantics.root(
+      children: <TestSemantics>[
+        TestSemantics(
+          children: <TestSemantics>[
+            TestSemantics(label: 'foo'),
+            TestSemantics(label: 'bar'),
+            TestSemantics(
+              label: 'HELLO',
+              actions: <SemanticsAction>[
+                SemanticsAction.tap,
+              ],
+              flags: <SemanticsFlag>[
+                SemanticsFlag.isLink,
+              ],
+            ),
+          ],
+        ),
+      ],
+    ),
+    ignoreId: true,
+    ignoreRect: true,
+    ignoreTransform: true,
+    ));
+  }, semanticsEnabled: true, skip: isBrowser); // Browser does not support widget span.
+
+  // Regression test for https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/69787
+  testWidgets('WidgetSpans with no semantic information are elided from semantics - case 4', (WidgetTester tester) async {
+    final SemanticsTester semantics = SemanticsTester(tester);
+    await tester.pumpWidget(
+      Directionality(
+        textDirection: TextDirection.ltr,
+        child: Center(
+          child: ClipRect(
+            child: Container(
+              color: Colors.green,
+              height: 100,
+              width: 100,
+              child: OverflowBox(
+                alignment: Alignment.topLeft,
+                maxWidth: double.infinity,
+                child: RichText(
+                  text: TextSpan(
+                    children: <InlineSpan>[
+                      const WidgetSpan(
+                        child: Icon(
+                          Icons.edit,
+                          size: 16,
+                          semanticLabel: 'not clipped',
+                        ),
+                      ),
+                      TextSpan(
+                        text: 'next WS is clipped',
+                        recognizer: TapGestureRecognizer()..onTap = () { },
+                      ),
+                      const WidgetSpan(
+                        child: Icon(
+                          Icons.edit,
+                          size: 16,
+                          semanticLabel: 'clipped',
+                        ),
+                      ),
+                    ],
+                  ),
+                ),
+              ),
+            ),
+          ),
+        ),
+      )
+    );
+
+    expect(semantics, hasSemantics(TestSemantics.root(
+      children: <TestSemantics>[
+        TestSemantics(
+          children: <TestSemantics>[
+            TestSemantics(label: 'not clipped'),
+            TestSemantics(
+              label: 'next WS is clipped',
+              flags: <SemanticsFlag>[SemanticsFlag.isLink],
+              actions: <SemanticsAction>[SemanticsAction.tap],
+            ),
+          ],
+        ),
+      ],
+    ),
+    ignoreId: true,
+    ignoreRect: true,
+    ignoreTransform: true,
+    ));
+  }, semanticsEnabled: true, skip: isBrowser); // Browser does not support widget span
 }
 
 Future<void> _pumpTextWidget({