Mozilla’s Accessibility team have added keyboard navigation support for the Firefox toolbar and add-on buttons in Firefox 67, means, you can now able to access buttons on toolbar such as back/forward, reload. site information, library, sidebar and application menu, including that of created by extensions, with the keyboard.
Enable Keyboard navigation support for toolbar in Firefox 67
1. Ensure you’re using latest Firefox Nightly.
2. Visit about:config
3. Find the preference and change its value to “true “.
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After enabling the pref, the buttons on both sides of address bar will be formed into groups, you can go through them using Tab/Shift+tab and use left/right arrows to put focus on the buttons in a group, once a button is in focus, you can activate it by pressing Enter or Space bar.
To get started,
1. Press F6 or use Ctrl+L or Alt+D to bring focus to the address bar,
2. Then use Tab button on keyboard to navigate to right group: Use right arrow to move through add-on button (s), library’s , sidebar and menu.
3. Hold Shift key and use Tab button to navigate through the –site information, relaod and back/forward button —buttons in the left group
In both the steps (2 and 3), you can press spacebar or Enter to activate any button while moving and as said above, press F6 whenever you need to focus the location bar.
Accessibility team needs to fix some bugs and polish the feature before turning the keyboard navigation feature by default in Nightly. For instance, navigation inside application menu is not consistentent and the company needs to do address visual glitches also.
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