
To navigate through the three sections of the dock, for applications, files and folders, and Trash, I use Fn+Up Arrow and Fn+Down Arrow, the laptop equivalents of "Page Up" and "Page Down", where Fn+Down Arrow cycles me through the applications, files and folders, and trash sections in that order, and Fn+Up Arrow reverses the direction of navigation.
#Page down shortcut mac osx mac os x#
I'll add these and other laptop key equivalencies, which are part of the Mac OS X, as a comment to the list of Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts.Īlso, for navigating in the dock, I use Fn+Left arrow and Fn+Right arrow to move to the first and last elements (where the last element is "Trash"). VO+Fn+Shift+Right Arrow to move to the end of a list, table, document, or web page VO+Fn+Shift+Left Arrow to move to the start of a list, table, document, or web page

So for navigation commands, these would be: Laptop users should use the key equivalents for "Home" and "End" using the Fn key combinations:

Move to the next auto web spot: VO+Command+N.Move to next visited link: VO+Command+V.Move to next heading of the same level: VO+Command+M.Stop interacting with item: Left/Down (equals VO+Shift+Up Arrow).Interact with item: Right/Down (equals VO+Shift+Down Arrow).Show more content for the item in the VoiceOver cursor: VO+Command+Slash.Open Actions Menu for the item in the VoiceOver cursor: VO+Command+Spacebar.Perform the default action for the item in the VoiceOver cursor (e.g.Stop interacting with an item: VO+Shift+Up Arrow.Interact with an item: VO+Shift+Down Arrow.Toggle table interaction: VO+Command+equals.Read the column header in a table: VO+C.Read previous paragraph: VO+Shift+Page Up.Read next paragraph: VO+Shift+Page Down.Read paragraph in VoiceOver cursor: VO+P.Read previous sentence: VO+Command+Page Up.Read next sentence: VO+Command+Page Down.Read sentence in VoiceOver cursor: VO+S.Read previous character: VO+Shift+Left Arrow.Read next character: VO+Shift+Right Arrow.Read character in VoiceOver cursor: VO+C.Speak line number, word and character in VoiceOver cursor: VO+F3.Read from VoiceOver cursor to end: VO+A.Find the next misspelled word: VO+Command+Eīefore you can use most of these commands, you must interact with text in a text area.Display Caption panel (of where VO cursor is): VO+Command+F10.Toggle VoiceOver focus rectangle (and other visuals): VO+Command+F11.Shrink item in cursor: VO+Shift+left bracket.Magnify item in VoiceOver cursor: VO+Shift+right bracket.


Move to start of list or document: VO+Shift+Home.Move VO cursor left, right, up or down: VO+Arrow keys.Describe the item in the mouse pointer: VO+F5.Describe the item that has the keyboard focus: VO+F4.Describe the item in the VoiceOver cursor: VO+F3.Lock and unlock the VO (Control and Option) keys: VO+semicolon.Close a menu or rotor, stop an action, or exit a mode: Escape.Change current speech attribute: VO+Command+Shift+UpArrow (or DownArrow).Cycle through speech attributes: VO+Command+Shift+LeftArrow (or RightArrow).Start keyboard help: VO+K (Esc to exit keyboard help).VoiceOver Quick Start tutorial: VO+Command+F8.VO+keystroke = Control+Option+keystroke Getting Started Basics
