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Move cursor to check boxes using keyboard instead of mouse
Is there a way to move the focus to check boxes on websites and in programs without using the mouse?
Let's say you're in the options menu of a program like Firefox or MS Office, and there are options with boxes you can check or uncheck. I want to be able to navigate to the boxes using the keyboard instead of the mouse.
What I find is, you usually can move the focus to the item description (i.e. highlight the text) using Tab, but that only gets to the item description, not the check box. Which is odd, because why would anyone ever need to highlight the text in a program's menus?
Once in a while it does work - you can tab to the check box and check/uncheck using something like shift-click. But I can't remember where that works. Maybe MS Office but I don't have it on this computer.
I am on a laptop, where it would save a lot of moving the mouse around. It might not be much of a time-saver on a desktop.