Firefox's Keyboard Navigation Feature and Its Limitations with Modern Web Design
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Summary
The article discusses Firefox's keyboard navigation feature called 'quick find for links' (activated by pressing ' key) that allows users to search and navigate through links using keyboard input. However, it highlights a significant limitation: modern websites increasingly use buttons, divs, and JavaScript event handlers instead of traditional links, making this accessibility feature less effective. The content includes practical examples and test cases demonstrating different types of interactive elements that don't work with Firefox's link-based navigation.
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Too bad most websites nowadays don't use links for navigation and actions. They have buttons and divs and once you click them stuff happens.
If you want to navigate websites with the keyboard you can make use of the ' search feature (aka "quick find for links") in Firefox.
Test it for yourself.
Hello this is a link to my homepage
and this a link with javascript:alert(1)
here a button with an handler.
and here a span with an onclick handler
