UIWebView click event lost when keyboard is open

I know UIWebView is deprecated but I am tied to using UIWebView because of a enterprise constraint. When the native keyboard is open (for example after tapping an input text field), and then I try to tap a clickable field on the webview, the keyboard is dismissed but the click handler is not executed on that clickable field. It's like that touch event is handled by the webview to dimiss the keyboard but not propagated to the web application DOM.

Is there any way to ensure that the web application click handler also gets executed when the keyboard is dismissed?