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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Dec 19, 2016 9:50AM

> 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.

It depends on the plug-in. Some such as SSB's Alchemy toolbar allow you to press enter to turn on the plug-in. Others don't do anything on enter but work by adding features somewhere else such as the context menu within the page or via the developer tools. It can be very confusing to know how you are to interact with many of the plug-ins.

Jonathan

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-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of JP Jamous
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 11:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Running chrome add-ons from the keyboard/screen reader

Birkir,

I sent instructions on this list on how to do it. It is a pain in the neck, but yes it is doable.

I don't have those instructions on this machine. Let me get to my other one and when I do I'll shoot them out.

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 9:40 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Running chrome add-ons from the keyboard/screen reader

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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