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VoiceOver cheatsheet

Installation / turning on

VoiceOver is part of OSX, no installation required. To turn it on and off, press cmd-F5.

If you are on a laptop with OSX Lion or older, you may need to press fn-cmd-F5

It works with Safari, support for other browsers is being worked on but I would stick with Safari.

Basics

The basic OSX keyboard short-cuts still work, VoiceOver uses a key-combination to add many more functions. These are called the VO keys.

VO keys are cntl (control) and alt (option). So pressing "VO - F5" means pressing cntl-alt-F5.

Open VoiceOver utility: VO-F8
Stop speaking: control
Start/Quit: cmd-F5

VoiceOver has a concept of "Interacting with" items, including HTML documents. You can go into (interact with) pages, widgets, lists etc by pressing VO-shift-down arrow, and get out of them by pressing VO-shift-up arrow.

Interact with an item: VO-shift-Down Arrow
Stop interacting with (exit) an item: VO-shift-Up Arrow
Perform default action on something (e.g. click): VO-Space
Select a menu or list item: VO-Enter
Next: VO-right Arrow
Previous: VO-right Arrow; NB: You can also go up & down, but left & right are more likely to trace a normal path.
Go to top: VO-home (on laptop: VO-fn-left arrow)
Read everything from here: VO-A

Web rotor

The "web rotor" is used to list and move to page elements such as (ARIA) Landmarks, links, headings, form controls and web spots (within page bookmarks).

Open web item rotor: VO-u
Move between items in menu:: VO and left/right/up/down/enter.

Search commands

Use for finding things in applications and web pages, add shift to reverse direction:

VO-f: find (text search)
VO-cmd-x: list
VO-cmd-t: table
VO-cmd-l: link
VO-cmd-h: heading
VO-cmd-m: heading of the same level
VO-cmd-p: next plain text
VO-cmd-v: visited link
VO-cmd-j: next control
VO-cmd-g: graphic

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