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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Dec 19, 2016 8:40AM

Greetings all
(sorry for any corss posting).

I have been trying to run various Chrome add-ons over the weekend and
I always end up with my head stuck in the same old brick wall.
I do the following:
* Open the webpage in Chrome
* Press the alt key
* Press left arrow (this puts me in the Chrome extensions menu).
From here I can put focus on the plug-in I want to run (e.g. Wave).
But here is where I get stuck.
Pressing enter or space bar on this button doesn't do anything.
I can press the context menu key (shift-f10) and get a context menu
for the add-on, such as going to its webpage, removing it from Chrome
etc.), but there is no option to run the add-on.
I suspect that I am the problem here, and I am missing something "duh
obvious", but I can't find out what.
I have tried this using NVDA and Jaws on Windows 7/8.
If anybody has the solution, can you post it?
I will do a write up for BATS and post it (I am way overdue writing one anyway).
Also I would be able to run a bunch of ac accessibility tools I've
been wanting to test, that would be a nerdy Christmas present.
Cheers
-B
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