Revised the article a bit and added in references to macOS, cause that's the latest operating system, and this is still confusing people.Īnother year later and this is still a thing. Once both of those settings have been updated you should be able to navigate to all focusable elements in websites by use of the Tab key. Make sure the setting is checked so as to not need to press both Option and Tab to navigate. Make sure Safari is appropriately setup tooīeyond the system preference, you’re going to need to open Safari’s preferences, and go to the Advanced options as well: Note: I originally found guidance / information about on this setting per this stackoverflow question on how to allow keyboard focus of links. Once there, update the radio button selection to “all controls”, as shown in the screen shot below, then OSX/macOS, and thus Firefox, will allow keyboard tabbing to all focusable elements. Change your system preferencesįirst, open System Preferences and then go to Keyboard Preferences. There are two things you’re going to want to do to make sure focusable elements in websites are actually focusable. And I do know it confuses people who are trying to do right with basic keyboard testing. It may even be a good one… but that reason escapes me. However, it is not just a Firefox quirk as this updated post now outlines.įor those of you who have attempted to do basic keyboard accessibility testing with Mac OSX or macOS and Firefox (or Safari), you’ve likely wondered why the Tab key isn’t moving focus to links and potentially other focusable elements.īy default, macOS has limited keyboard tabbing to only ‘text boxes and lists’ as a system preference. Note: this post was previously titled "Tabbing Links in OSX/macOS Firefox".
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