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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Jan 24, 2014 9:31AM

Ideally, browsers should enhance their keyboard navigation options, rather than requiring an extra program. Here is an extension for Firefox, for example, that allows you to navigate by ARIA landmarks: https://github.com/davidtodd/landmarks. Having a widely used extension is one way of getting traction for adding a feature as a core function.

It works quite nicely. The "n" key moves focus to the next landmark, and the "p" key takes you to the previous one. When you press the key, it briefly makes a red outline around the area. From there, you can use the tab and/or arrow keys as usual.

If a page does not have ARIA landmarks, nothing happens.

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