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Re:Please support "skip to main content" on your docs site by SoftTalker on Monday June 03, 2024 @11:12PM (#40570337)
Most pages have so many clickable/focusable elements that tab navigation is next to useless.

There was a browser called xxxterm (later called xombrero) that did this pretty nicely. There was a hot key that showed a little overlay of a number on each link. Type that number and it clicks the link.

Sadly the project was discontinued. It was one of my favorite browsers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xombrero

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Re:Please support "skip to main content" on your docs site by kenniskrag on Monday June 03, 2024 @11:33PM (#40570423)
qutebrowser does that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutebrowser

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Re:Please support "skip to main content" on your docs site by PhilipRoman on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @01:50AM (#40571086)
It's a really cool feature, I use it everywhere I can: Link Hints extension in browser, EasyMotion in Vim, the "dot" shortcut in elinks, etc.
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Re:Please support "skip to main content" on your docs site by herewulf on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @03:03AM (#40571469)
Tridactyl does this also. Nyxt does this also.

If you really care about all websites having roughly the same key binding experience then you need to use an extension or custom browser.

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