Accessibility
Screen Reader support
We recommend using Microsoft Windows with Firefox and NVDA.
To get started in NVDA Press NVDA + Control + K to open the keyboard settings, then disable "Speak typed characters" and "Speak typed words."
Currently Orca support in Ubuntu and Google Chrome support is too limited, we hope in the future contributions will be made to these projects to make them usable.
We provide as much screen reader support as possible. Please let us know if some support is missing.
Pad Editor Keyboard Shortcuts
Accessing the Editbar (Where the bold, italic etc buttons are)
Alt F9 will Access the Editbar
Navigating the Editbar
Left and Right Arrow keys will navigate buttons, Tab will navigate to the next button
Activating a button
Enter will activate the currently focused button
Returning Focus to the Pad from the Editbar
Alt F9 or Escape will return focus to the Pad from the Editbar
Activating Chat
Shift Alt C(IE) or Alt C(Modern browsers) brings up Chat and puts focus in Chat input
Returning Focus to the Pad from Chat
Escape or Shift Alt C(IE) or Alt C(Modern browsers) while in Chat puts focus back into pad
Selecting a selection of text
There are multiple ways of selecting text with a keyboard, we follow the usual conventions.
Shift Arrow Keys will select single characters per arrow key press
Shift & Control Arrow Keys will select single words per arrow key press
Control A will select everything
Shift & Up will select the current lines text ending the selection at the current caret X position
Shift & Down will select the next lines text ending the selection at the current caret X position
Applying Bold to a selection
Control B will apply Bold to a selection of text
Applying Italic to a selection
Control I will apply Italic to a selection of text
Applying Underline to a selection
Control U will apply Underline to a selection of text
Applying Strikethrough to a selection
Control 5 will apply Strikethrough to a selection of text
Applying Ordered List to a selection
Control & Shift & N or Control & Shift & 1(chrome) will apply Ordered List the current line or a selection of lines
Applying Unordered List to a selection
Control & Shift & L will apply Unordered List the current line or a selection of lines
Indenting a selection
Tab will indent the current line or a selection of lines
Outdenting a selection
Shift Tab will outdent the current line or a selection of lines
Undoing an action
Control Z will undo an action
Redoing an action
Control Y will redo an action
Clearing authorship colors on the entire Pad or selection.
Control & Shift & C will clear authorship colors on the entire pad or on a selection.
Listing the authors of a selection / line
Control & Shift & 2 will display a popup listing the authors of a line assuming they are clearly visible in the pad.
Cutting a selection
Control X will cut the current selection
Copying a selection
Control C will copy the current selection
Pasting a selection
Control V will paste contents from the clipboard
Timeslider Keyboard shortcuts
Playing the Pad History
Spacebar will play the Pad History
Pausing the Pad History Playback
Spacebar will pause the Pad History Playback
Going back a revision
Left Arrow will go back a revision
Going forward a revision
Right Arrow will go forward a revision