Two Questions About Using Safari On Mac with VO

By Applegirl1994, 28 July, 2025

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Good Morning,
I hope everyone is doing well.
I have two questions about using Safari with Mac. I've tried to search in the past but struggled to find what I'm looking for so I thought I'd ask here.
1. Can anyone remember the keyboard command for going back in Safari?
2. Whenever I've tried to use the Youtube shortcuts in Safari such as Shift+N to go to the next video VO thinks I'm trying to find a page element. It's probably a really easy thing to fix but was wondering if it's possible to turn that off just temporarily?
If anyone could let me know, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much.

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By Maldalain on Monday, July 28, 2025 - 11:22

For going back in Safari, you press Command + [
For your second question, could you just clarify what you mean? If you mean you want to navigate through headings and other page elements, make sure you have one-key nav on, press Control + Options + Q to confirm, then use familiar web page navigation commands, H for headings, L for links, V for visited links, F for forms etc.
HTH

By Tyler on Monday, July 28, 2025 - 11:24

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team
  1. The command to go back a page is Command-Left-Bracket. You can find this, and many other keyboard shortcuts, in the menu bar.
  2. To turn single-key Quick Nav off so that key presses aren't interpreted by VoiceOver as navigation commands, press VO-Q; perform this command again to turn it back on.

HTH

By Blind Joe on Monday, July 28, 2025 - 12:04

Hi there. I'm not sure about your YouTube question, but the keyboard shortcut for the back button in safari is command + [
HTH.ðŸ¤