Navigating Chrome on Windows by Keyboard: Browsing and Help

LAURA PALMARO: Hi, I’m Laura and I’m on the Chrome Accessibility
team at Google. In this video, I’m going to show you some
ways to browse in Chrome for Windows using only the keyboard. I’m also going to show
you some ways to find more resources if you’d like additional information.
So let’s start by talking about how to browse web pages.
You may already know that you can browse a page at least 3 different ways:
using the arrow keys, the Page Up and Page Down keys, or the Home and End keys.
But did you know that you can also scroll down whole sections of a page by pressing
the Spacebar?
Once you reach the end of the page, press Shift with the Spacebar to scroll back up.
To move around the page, jumping from one clickable thing to another, press Tab.
And to move backwards? Shift + Tab. Next, you can open a shortcut menu using just
the keyboard. It’s also called a context menu, and it’s a list of commands that are
related to a task you’re doing, or the area of the screen where your keyboard focus is.
To open this context menu using only your keyboard, press the Application key. If your
keyboard has it, it’s to the right of the space bar.
If you don’t have the Application key on your keyboard, try Shift and F10.
Now I use the arrow keys to navigate through the items and press Enter to choose something
from the menu. If I want to close this menu, I can simply
press Escape.
Escape is also handy for closing other things, like dialog boxes.
And Alt + Home is the fastest way to your default home page. You can set your default
home page in Chrome settings.
Next, let’s talk a bit about bookmarks.
To toggle whether or not the bookmarks bar shows in Chrome, I can press Control + Shift
+ B as in bookmarks.
For these next shortcuts, I’m going to leave the bookmarks bar showing.
Now I want to bookmark this page, so I’ll press Control D, which will open the bookmarks
dialog. I can choose the suggested bookmark name or rename it, and once I’m ready, press
done. Next, notice that by pressing F6, I can switch
focus between the Address bar...
...the Bookmarks bar, if it’s showing...
...and the main web page content. So if I press F6 once, I’m in the address
bar.
Now I can use the Tab key or Shift + Tab to move back and forth between the browser tools,
the address bar, and any extension icons that I have.
To select one, I press Enter. Now I can press F6 again and now the focus
is on the Bookmarks bar. Now I can use the Tab or arrow keys to navigate and, again,
press Enter to select.
There are a lot of keyboard shortcuts in Chrome on Windows!
Luckily there’s a quick way to look them up, so you don’t have to memorize them all
to get the most out of Chrome on your Windows computer.
Just press F1 to pull up Chrome help center. Finally, I’m going to close the browser
now, I can do this either by pressing Alt + F4, or Control + Shift + Q.
Alright, that’s all for now!
To provide our team with feedback or ask any questions, join our Google Group and send
us an email at chrome-accessibility@googlegroups.com. To learn more about Google accessibility as
a whole, check out Google.com/accessibility. To sign up for user studies to explore new
features and help shape Google products, go to Google.com/usability.
Also, look out for additional videos about more ways to make Chrome easier to use.
Again, I’m Laura and on behalf of myself and our entire Chrome Accessibility Team,
thanks for watching!
And don’t forget, we have a handful of other videos about Chrome accessibility. Check them
out here!

Navigating Chrome on Windows by Keyboard: Browsing and Help

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