Here Is The Full List of Keyboard Shortcuts for ChromeVox Screen Reader For Chrome Browser.
Basic Navigation
Headings
Jump Commands
Prefix Key:
The Prefix Key is enabled by pressing Control + Z.
Basic Navigation
- ChromeVox + Down = Navigate Forward
- ChromeVox + Up = Navigate backward
- ChromeVox + Right = Navigate forward at a more detailed level
- ChromeVox + Left = Navigate backward at a more detailed level
- ChromeVox + Equals = Change navigation level to more detail
- ChromeVox + Minus = Change navigation level to less detail
- Enter = Activate current item
- ChromeVox + Space = Force click on current item
- ChromeVox + R = Start reading from current location
Speech Commands
- Control = Stop speaking the current text
- ChromeVox + Single quote = Increase pitch of speech
- ChromeVox + Semicolon = Decrease pitch of speech
- ChromeVox + Close Bracket = Increase rate of speech
- ChromeVox + Open Bracket = Decrease rate of speech
Headings
To move to the next header on the page, press ChromeVox + N then H. To move to the previous header on the page, press ChromeVox + P then H.
You can also move to a specific heading level by pressing ChromeVox + N or P then the number representing that heading level. For example, to move to the next level 2 header, press ChromeVox + N then 2.
Jump Commands
ChromeVox allows you navigate through lists of similar items, such as links, headers etc. To move to a specific item on a page, press ChromeVox + either N or P. N stands for Next and P stands for Previous.
Other items
- Tab = Jump to next focusable item
- Shift + Tab = Jump to previous focusable item
- Press ChromeVox + N or ChromeVox + P and then one of the following commands:
- A = Anchor
- Q = Block quote
- B = Button
- X = Checkbox
- C = Combobox
- G = Graphic
- H = Heading
- J = Jump
- ; = Landmark
- F = Form Field
- L = Link
- O = List
- I = List item
- R = Radio button
- S = Slider
- T = Table
Table Mode
Table Mode is activated by ChromeVox + Back slash when reading a table. The following are the commands that become available only in table mode.
Use the command help menu ChromeVox + Period to explore additional table commands.
- ChromeVox + Back space = Force exit table mode
- ChromeVox + Down = Go to next table row
- ChromeVox + Up = Go to previous table row
- ChromeVox + Right = Go to next table column
- ChromeVox + Left = Go to previous table column
- ChromeVox + T then H = Announce headers of the current cell
- ChromeVox + T then L = Announce coordinates of the current cell
- ChromeVox + T then Open bracket = Go to beginning of table
- ChromeVox + T then Close bracket = Go to end of table
- ChromeVox + T then Semicolon = Go to beginning of the current row
- ChromeVox + T then Single quote = Go to end of the current row
- ChromeVox + T then Comma = Go to beginning of the current column
- ChromeVox + T then Period = Go to end of the current column
Getting Help
- ChromeVox + O then T = Open ChromeVox Tutorial
- ChromeVox + Period = Show ChromeVox command help
- Escape = Hide ChromeVox command help
- ChromeVox + O then O = Open options page
- ChromeVox + Forward Slash = Enable search within the page.
Browser commands
Address bar
- Control L = Move to the address bar. From here you can type your search term in the address bar and press Enter to see results. In addition to search terms, you can type in the web address of a site, and press Enter to go to the site.
Working with tabs
- Control + T = Open a new Tab
- Control + W = Close a Tab
- Control + Tab = Move through Tabs
Keyboard explorer
- ChromeVox + O + K = Open keyboard explorer
Chrome OS Keyboard
- An overview of the Chrome OS keyboard layout is available.
Deactivate ChromeVox
- ChromeVox can be activated / deactivated at any time by pressing ChromeVox + A + A.