For those who missed it, like me, shift enter seams to be working on youtube video links again, on firefox and edge.
I reported it and showed the people at google the audiogames post about it and I think it helped.
Googles accessibility stuff with BeMyEyes can be frustrating to deal with but it seams they do seam to listen from time to time, perhaps it depends on who you get? Who knows.
This small change honestly really helps, I guess its one of those, you don't know you'll miss it until it's taken away things.
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What was it supposed to do?…
What was it supposed to do? Never heard about it before.
@TheBlindGuy07
It opens a videeo in a new window, so you can alt tab to it, you can also use control enter to open the link in the same tab. So you have a choice between alt tabbing to your window, or using control tab to open the link in the same tab.
Windows vs tabs
I’ve always used tabs on Windows because they’re quite efficient to work with. Additionally, NVDA always reads the title of the tab when switching tabs. However, on Mac OS, Windows are more efficient because we can use the window chooser to search between them, and VoiceOver also reads the titles. Just a small piece of information to share! :)
@Mert Ozer.
I believe there's an addon that can do that kind of thing. I've not neede it though so can't be sure of that.
I think it might be part of the tonies enhancements addon.
It's interesting how different screen readers handle OS's.
@brad, totally agree
This was driving me crazy, the fact that I couldn't open videos in a new window and still keep browsing the list of videos.
It use to make a mess, when I would pressalt+left arrow to go back from video to video's list, and my focus would be like on top of the screen. With shift enter, your focus stays at the same place in videos list, and your video opens in a new window.
Interestingly, I have gotten in to this habbit with Gmail and Outlook as well. Going back with alt+left arrow or escape seems too unreliable sometimes.
Control +shift +enter has always worked
Hello, I have used the control +shift +enter for years and it never stopped working. It opens the link in a new tab and places the tab in the foreground. The video begins playing automagically and you can close with control +W. No need to do a control +tab to switch after the control +enter command, which opens the link in a new tab, but places the tab in the background.
Happy tabbing!