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Navigation by tabs in NVDA? (self.Blind)
submitted by Laser_Lens_4
This is something I've been wondering about for a while. I'm not talking about browser tabs. I mean HTML tabs within a webpage. For example, the tabs on the YouTube homepage at the navigation landmark. JAWS used the semicolon key for this, but I can't find an equivalent on NVDA. It seems to recognize that there are tabs, and it even groups them together when it speakes just like a set of buttons sometimes, but I can't pick an individual tab out when it does that. I can't find anything by searching the docs. Is there some way to do this? Thanks.
Superfreq2 2 points 3y ago
I've been saying the same thing for years now. No, there is no way to do this in NVDA. I would love this for youtube and wirecutter, as a way to quickly skip to the tab sections.
Not to mention all the retail websites that use tabs to switch between product info sections...
Not to mention all the retail websites that use tabs to switch between product info sections...
Laser_Lens_4 [OP] 1 points 3y ago
It's not so bad on YouTube since you can get to them via Landmark navigation, but a bunch of sites have tabs without any special elements nearby. I hope this is a feature that gets implemented in a future update. It's the only thing in my daily use which jaws can do that nvda can't
retrolental_morose 1 points 3y ago
most of the time, the left and right cursor keys in focus mode will move across a tab strip. I've found NVDA's automatic focus triggering to vary based on the site, and but most time's I've seen tabs of this sort the cursor approach has worked.
Sometimes you can append things to a page's URL to specify a tab too, usually /#something like an in-page (relative) link.
Sometimes you can append things to a page's URL to specify a tab too, usually /#something like an in-page (relative) link.
CloudyBeep 1 points 3y ago
Probably not because they're not an HTML element like headings, buttons or edit fields.
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