Learn ways to prevent falls, find things you've dropped, and more confidently navigate unknown spaces.
Hello, my name is Ricky Enger and today we'll learn a few really useful tips and tricks for getting around on the web. We'll learn how to move back and forth between web pages. And we'll learn about browser tabs for when we need more than one website open at a time. We're using the Google Chrome browser along with NVDA as our screen reader, but the concepts we learn will be pretty similar, no matter which screen reader and browser we're using. So before we can learn to move around between pages, we'll need to have a website open, right? So we'll press our Alt+D, that's D as in delta, shortcut to get to our address in search bar.
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