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The website has to start the interaction with the USB device, it can be any USB device (not sure anymore, but i think you had to filter for Vendor ID). The browser needs to support WebUSB, currently only Chrome.

On the USB device you can implement the WebUSB descriptor to link to your own website. This will give a notification on your desktop to open your website.

Thanks, I think I misunderstood the last bit to mean the USB device needed to specifically support WebUSB.

Apparently the basic requirement is that the device should not have a driver already claiming the interface.

More info here: https://web.dev/build-for-webusb/

Should work with any device. The web page needs to implement the driver/protocol to communicate with the hardware.

Even storage devices like thumb drives larger usb3 disks?

What if the device has strict timing requirements?