Accessibility features of Mozilla Firefox:
The Mozilla Organization facilitates its web users by providing the accessibility features for making the Firefox web browser and its web applications handy for all. Therefore, the main aim behind these accessibility features is to make them available for those web users having short revelation and possesses limited ability to use a keyboard or mouse.
We are assisted with several mouse shortcuts while accessing the Firefox web browser. There are various keyboard shortcuts, which are available in the sidebar option of the Help menu. This is called as Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts. We can view the difference between keyboard shortcuts, which are executed for different operating systems like Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
In the Mozilla Firefox, you can use the cursor keys for finding the way inside the web pages. Therefore, this permits you to move through the web content of the Firefox even though you were within a read-only editor. These keyboard shortcuts are used to select the web content of the Firefox for copying it to the clipboard. The web user can activate this feature by selecting Option view in the Toolbar menu. After this you have open the General Tab, which is situated in the Advanced Panel. Then you have to check to use the cursor keys to find the way inside the web pages option.
By pressing the shortcut like F7, you can on or off the activation of this function. So when you press F7 key, the Firefox ask you that you really want this function or not. In addition, you can immobilize the prompt by selecting the dialog box called as Don’t show.
The next accessibility feature is searching for the text while typing. This feature lets you to rapidly navigate to the text or helps you to make the hyperlinks in the web pages of the Firefox. There are two features are presented for this feature. Firstly you have to press / and should start your searching of all text on the existing page. Secondly, you have to press ‘ previous to string to search hyperlinks only. When you type any text or hyperlink, it will be highlighted by the Firefox. The mentioned below are the controlling keyboard shortcuts for this feature.
Firstly, you should type more characters to narrow your search. So the Firefox web browser alerts you in both ways by highlighting the matching hyperlinks or texts or the hyperlinks which are not matched. You can press Ctrl+G or F3 to find the subsequent occurrence of your existing search string.
By pressing the keyboard shortcuts like CtrlCmd + Shift+G or Shift+F3 in Firefox, the web user can find the earlier occurrence of existing search string. In the Firefox, the web user can press Backspace to unwrap the previous typed character. Also the web browser Firefox possesses a function to support to the text which are previously highlighted.
In the Mozilla Firefox, there is a keyboard shortcut to Press Esc to cancel a search. By using the accessibility functions of the Mozilla Firefox, the web user can also cancel a search by altering the focus, moving the page up and down by using the scrolling bar with the mouse or keyboard, or merely waiting for the break.
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