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Am I tripping or did Chrome used to have a little icon in the elements panel of the DevTools, a little person in the top right, to quickly open the accessibility tree? That’s gone for me now, and I have to find the accessibility tab to open it. Is there a setting to bring this old icon back?

developer.chrome.com/blog/full-ac... I see the icon in this (dateless, annoyingly) blog post announcing the accessibility tree. It’s a grey square here but I most recently saw it as a blue circle. So at least I’m not completely imagining it.

www.reddit.com/r/accessibil... okay it happened 2 years ago but if you press “a” in the elements tab it toggles, so that’s nice at least. @bram.us any idea why this button was moved? Seems odd, it wasn’t doing any harm where it was.

In Canary you can right click the tree and choose “Switch to accessibility tree” from the list of options. (But the `a` shortcut might be easier)

But that is basically just the accessibility tree from that element a'd children, right? Not the full document tree we used to have. Although looking at it on the body might be similar 🤔