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Re: Firefox Accessible Way To Inspect Individual Elements?

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From: Jim Allan
Date: Dec 13, 2017 9:07AM

most browser have F12 to open dev tools
Chrome has good keyboard navigation in the dev tools
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/shortcuts

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > The subject says it. I want to sometimes look at the code for individual
> elements. It takes a long time to view source and see an element I'm
> interested in. Is there an accessible way to do this?
>
> In JAWS you can press JAWSkey+shift+f1 to see the tag and attributes under
> the virtual cursor.
>
> In browsers with dev tools -- for elements in forms mode you may be able
> to press the applications key then inspect element and the current element
> will show up in the developer tools. You can then move focus to the
> developer toolbar and your focus should be on that element in the tree.
>
> Jonathan
>
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> Hi,
> The subject says it. I want to sometimes look at the code for individual
> elements. It takes a long time to view source and see an element I'm
> interested in. Is there an accessible way to do this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
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