After you enable the Screen Reader feature for your Live test session, on the macOS system VoiceOver is enabled and on Windows system NVDA is enabled. You can use the keyboard shortcuts to perform various actions supported by VoiceOver or NVDA.
Close a menu or rotor, stop an action or exit a mode
Esc
Esc
Open the Verbosity rotor
Control + Option + V
Right Ctrl + Alt + V
Increase magnification of the item in the VoiceOver cursor
Control + Option + }
Right Ctrl + Alt + }
Decrease magnification of the item in the VoiceOver cursor
Control + Option + {
Right Ctrl + Alt + }
Temporarily hide or show the VoiceOver cursor and the caption or braille panels
Control + Option + Command + F11
Right Ctrl + Alt + Left Ctrl + F11
Hide or show the caption panel only
Control + Option + Command + F10
Right Ctrl + Alt + Left Ctrl + F10
Resize or move the caption panel
Control + Option + Shift + F10
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F10
Cycle through settings (such as voice, rate, pitch, volume, language and braille table) in the rotor
Control + Option + Shift + Right arrow / Left arrow
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Right arrow / Left arrow
Change the current setting for voice, rate, pitch, volume, language and braille table in the rotor
Control + Option + Shift + Up arrow / Down arrow
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Up arrow / Down arrow
Navigation commands
VoiceOver action
Live shortcut for macOS keyboard users
Live shortcut for Windows keyboard users
Move the VoiceOver cursor up
Control + Option + Up arrow
Right Ctrl + Alt + Up arrow
Move the VoiceOver cursor down
Control + Option + Down arrow
Right Ctrl + Alt + Down arrow
Move the VoiceOver cursor to the left
Control + Option + Left arrow
Right Ctrl + Alt + Left arrow
Move the VoiceOver cursor to the right
Control + Option + Right arrow
Right Ctrl + Alt + Right arrow
Move to the top of the visible area (such as a window or text area) where the VoiceOver cursor is located
Control + Option + Shift + Home
Right Ctrl + Shift + Home
Move to the bottom of the visible area (such as a window or text area) where the VoiceOver cursor is located
Control + Option + Shift + End
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + End
Move to the top of the area (such as a window or text area) where the VoiceOver cursor is located, scrolling if necessary
Control + Option + Home
Right Ctrl + Alt + Home
Move to the bottom of the area (such as a window or text area) where the VoiceOver cursor is located, scrolling if necessary
Control + Option + End
Right Ctrl + Alt + End
Move to the top of a window, the first item in the Dock, or the first item on your desktop, depending on your location
Control + Option + Command + Home
Right Ctrl + Alt + Left Ctrl + Home
Move to the lower-right corner of a window, the last item in the Dock, or the last item on your desktop, depending on your location
Control + Option + Command + End
Right Ctrl + Alt + Left Ctrl + End
Move the window containing the VoiceOver cursor to the front, making it the active window
Control + Option + Shift + F2
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F2
Open the Item Chooser
Control + Option + I
Right Ctrl + Alt + I
Open the VoiceOver rotor
Control + Option + U
Right Ctrl + Alt + U
Move the VoiceOver cursor to the keyboard focus
Control + Option + Shift + F4
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F4
Move the keyboard focus to the VoiceOver cursor
Control + Option + Command + F4
Right Ctrl + Alt + Left Ctrl + F4
Move the VoiceOver cursor to the mouse pointer
Control + Option + Shift + F5
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F5
Move the mouse pointer to the VoiceOver cursor
Control + Option + Command + F5
Right Ctrl + Alt + Left Ctrl + F5
Interaction commands
VoiceOver action
Live shortcut for macOS keyboard users
Live shortcut for Windows keyboard users
Start interacting with an item
Control + Option + Shift + Down arrow
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Down arrow
Stop interacting with an item
Control + Option + Shift + Up arrow
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Up arrow
Perform the default action for the item in the VoiceOver cursor
Control + Option + Space bar
Right Ctrl + Alt+ Space bar
Orientation commands
VoiceOver action
Live shortcut for macOS keyboard users
Live shortcut for Windows keyboard users
Hear a description of the item in the VoiceOver cursor, including the item’s current state, such as whether a tickbox is selected, or the per cent value of a slider
Control + Option + F3
Right Ctrl + Alt + F3
Hear the dimensions of the current item and the section of the screen where it’s located
Control + Option + Command + F3
Right Ctrl + Alt + Left Ctrl + F3
Hear a description of the item that has keyboard focus, including its current state, such as whether a tick-box is selected, or the per cent value of a slider
Control + Option + F4
Right Ctrl + Alt + F4
Read the selected item
Control + Option + F6
Right Ctrl + Alt + F6
Read the contents of the VoiceOver cursor
Control + Option + A
Right Ctrl + Alt + A
Repeat the last spoken phrase
Control + Option + Z
Right Ctrl + Alt + Z
Copy the last spoken phrase to the clipboard
Control + Option + Shift + C
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + C
Web commands
VoiceOver action
Live shortcut for macOS keyboard users
Live shortcut for Windows keyboard users
Move to the next column
Control + Option + Command + Y
Right Ctrl + Alt + Left Ctrl + Y
Move to the previous column
Control + Option + Command + Shift + Y
Right Ctrl + Alt + Left Ctrl + Y
Move to the next frame
Control + Option + Command + F
Right Ctrl + Alt + Left Ctrl + F
Move to the previous frame
Control + Option + Command + Shift + F
Right Ctrl + Alt + Left Ctrl + F
Read from the current location on a web page to the end of the page
Control + Option + A
Right Ctrl + Alt + A
Read from the beginning of a web page to the current location
Control + Option + B
Right Ctrl + Alt + B
Read a link address (URL)
Control + Option + Shift + U
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + U
Text commands
VoiceOver action
Live shortcut for macOS keyboard users
Live shortcut for Windows keyboard users
Read the contents of the VoiceOver cursor
Control + Option + A
Right Ctrl + Alt + A
Select all text in the VoiceOver cursor
Control + Option + Shift + A
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + A
Start and stop text selection in a text field (text selection tracking must be on)
Control + Option + Return
Right Ctrl + Alt + Return
Read the paragraph in the VoiceOver cursor
Control + Option + P
Right Ctrl + Alt + P
Read the sentence in the VoiceOver cursor
Control + Option + S
Right Ctrl + Alt + S
Read the line in the VoiceOver cursor
Control + Option + L
Right Ctrl + Alt + L
Read the next line
Control + Option + Down arrow
Right Ctrl + Alt + Down arrow
Read the previous line
Control + Option + Up arrow
Right Ctrl + Alt + Up arrow
Read the word in the VoiceOver cursor
Control + Option + W
Right Ctrl + Alt + W
Spell the word in the VoiceOver cursor alphabetically
Control + Option + W + W
Right Ctrl + Alt + W
Read the next sentence
Control + Option + Right arrow
Right Ctrl + Alt + Right arrow
Read the previous word
Control + Option + Left arrow
Right Ctrl + Alt + Left arrow
Read the character in the VoiceOver cursor
Control + Option + C
Right Ctrl + Alt + C
Move to the first visible word
Control + Option + Shift + Home
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Home
Move to the last visible word
Control + Option + Shift + End
Right Ctrl + Alt + Shift + End
Move to the beginning of text, scrolling if necessary
Control + Option + Home
Right Ctrl + Alt + Home
Move to the end of text, scrolling if necessary
Control + Option + End
Right Ctrl + Alt + End
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