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Re: Firefox Accessible Way To Inspect Individual Elements?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Dec 13, 2017 9:11AM

Check out www.bats.fyi for my article on using Firebug.
Two caveats:
1. Firebug has stopped working with the latest versions of Firefox, at
least 57, maybe it is going to be retired altogether.
2. I forget to mention in the article that you have to check the
"accessible mode" checkbox when you first configure Firebug. I'll have
to add it at some point.

You can actually simulate a right click on any element on the page, at
least with Jaws, select "inspect with Firebug" from the right click
menu, and then you lend on that element in the DOM tree in Firebug
(sometimes you have to press tab a few times to get there).

The other good news, Firefox's own "inspect element" is pretty
accessible by now and also works from simulated right click (JawsKey
and 9).

A note on the Jaws DisplayAdvancedElementInfo script, I find it
useful, though it only shows you the element and its ancestor elements
up to the root.
On laptops you have to configure the keyboard shortcut for it by going
opening the Jaws keyboard manager (JawsKey f2), making sure all
scripts are displayed (I think you change the filter under options),
then you locate the "DisplayAdvancedElementInfo" script and press
alt-a to assign a keyboard shortcut to it.



On 12/13/17, 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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