This is useful. The shift-F6 command solves another, but undoubtedly related, problem I’ve been having with Chrome, which is that it often opens with the address bar, and until now the only way I could get out of it was to close and reopen Chrome. It turns out that when I’m stuck on the address bar, shift-F6 puts me on the main window. In that sense, it functions like control-F6 in IE and Firefox.
From: Brian Vogel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 11:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Moving around in Google Chrome (using NVDA, but hoping JAWS is same) This thread is a spin-off of the PDF handling in Chrome thread. Since Chrome is "kinda new" to many I figure it can't hurt to have a thread dedicated to navigating some of the Chrome Controls that I've been told are problematic, and to have people confirm/refute whether JAWS and NVDA v2015.4 navigate the controls in the same way. I have found that SHIFT+F6 throws focus between the web page content and whatever other controls may be active at the moment. When I have recently downloaded files and am still on the web page the first SHIFT+F6 moves me to the bar across the bottom of the screen where the buttons for the individual files I've just downloaded are located. I can TAB or SHIFT+TAB to move back and forth between them and each is announced with the file name plus "submenu", even though to sighted me this thing appears exactly like a split button would. I managed to get the context menu to come up on one of these submenu "buttons" but was interrupted and forgot what I'd just hit to do it and have not been able to do it again. I'll try again in the morning when I'm fresh. If there are no files I've downloaded the SHIFT+F6 throws me on to the main Chrome toolbar into the address bar but without focus on the actual content. I can then either TAB or SHIFT+TAB to move left or right to the various control buttons, e.g., Back, Forward, Reload, etc. in the Main Chrome toolbar. The handiest thing, though was finding that since the Chrome Menu button, which is always at the rightmost position on the toolbar, can be reached by hitting the END button from anywhere you happen to be in that toolbar. Conversely, you can reach the Back button, which is always the leftmost button using the HOME Key. The Chrome menu button is also sometimes referred to as the "hamburger stack" button (and a corresponding button exists in Firefox, too). The SHIFT+F6 circles around if you hit "the last control" to wherever you started. Now it's off to bed. It's been a long day! Brian
