ChromeVox Keyboard Shortcuts Reference Page for Chrome OS
Keep in mind that these keyboard shortcuts are for Chrome OS devices. If you are running
ChromeVox on another platform, please use Control + Alt instead of Shift + Search.
- Ctrl + Alt + Z = Start ChromeVox (must be pressed on the initial login screen)
Speech Commands
- Control = Stop speaking the current text
- Search = Stop speaking the current text
- Shift + Search + Apostrophe = Increase pitch of speech
- Shift + Search + Semicolon = Decrease pitch of speech
- Shift + Search + Right Bracket = Increase rate of speech
- Shift + Search + Left Bracket = Decrease rate of speech
Sticky Mode
- Double-tap Search key = Enable/Disable sticky mode
Basic Navigation
- Shift + Search + Down = Navigate forward
- Shift + Search + Up = Navigate backward
- Shift + Search + Right = Navigate forward at a more detailed level
- Shift + Search + Left = Navigate backward at a more detailed level
- Shift + Search + Equals = More detail
- Shift + Search + Minus = Less detail
- Enter = Activate current item
- Space = Force click on current item
Table Mode
Table Mode is activated automatically when you enter a data table while in group-level
navigation. The following are the commands that become available only in table mode.
- Shift + Search + T + E = Force exit table mode
- Shift + Search + Down = Go to next table row
- Shift + Search + Up = Go to previous table row
- Shift + Search + Right = Go to next table column
- Shift + Search + Left = Go to previous table column
- Shift + Search + T + H = Announce the headers of the current cell
- Shift + Search + T + L = Announce the current table location
- Shift + Search + T + R = Announce the row header of the current cell
- Shift + Search + T + C = Announce the column header of the current cell
- Shift + Search + T + Left Bracket = Jump to the beginning of the table
- Shift + Search + T + Right Bracket = Jump to the end of the table
Jump Commands
Focusable items
- Tab = Jump to next focusable item
- Shift + Tab = Jump to previous focusable item
- Shift + Search + N + C = Next combo box
- Shift + Search + P + C = Previous combo box
- Shift + Search + N + E = Next editable text area
- Shift + Search + P + E = Previous editable text area
- Shift + Search + N + F = Next form field
- Shift + Search + P + F = Previous form field
- Shift + Search + N + L = Next link
- Shift + Search + P + L = Previous link
- Shift + Search + N + R = Next radio button
- Shift + Search + P + R = Previous radio button
- Shift + Search + N + S = Next slider
- Shift + Search + P + S = Previous slider
- Shift + Search + N + B = Next button
- Shift + Search + P + B = Previous button
- Shift + Search + N + X = Next checkbox
- Shift + Search + P + X = Previous checkbox
Headings
- Shift + Search + N + H = Next heading
- Shift + Search + P + H = Previous heading
- Shift + Search + N + 1 = Next level 1 heading
- Shift + Search + P + 1 = Previous level 1 heading
- Shift + Search + N + 2 = Next level 2 heading
- Shift + Search + P + 2 = Previous level 2 heading
- Shift + Search + N + 3 = Next level 3 heading
- Shift + Search + P + 3 = Previous level 3 heading
- Shift + Search + N + 4 = Next level 4 heading
- Shift + Search + P + 4 = Previous level 4 heading
- Shift + Search + N + 5 = Next level 5 heading
- Shift + Search + P + 5 = Previous level 5 heading
- Shift + Search + N + 6 = Next level 6 heading
- Shift + Search + P + 6 = Previous level 6 heading
Page Structure
- Shift + Search + N + G = Next graphic
- Shift + Search + P + G = Previous graphic
- Shift + Search + N + I = Next list item
- Shift + Search + P + I = Previous list item
- Shift + Search + N + O = Next list
- Shift + Search + P + O = Previous list
- Shift + Search + N + Q = Next block quote
- Shift + Search + P + Q = Previous block quote
- Shift + Search + N + T = Next table
- Shift + Search + P + T = Previous table
Descriptions
- Shift + Search + U = Announce the URL behind a link
- Shift + Search + C + T = Announce the title of the current page
- Shift + Search + C + U = Announce the URL of the current page
- Shift + Search + R = Start reading from the current location
Getting Help
- Shift + Search + H = Open ChromeVox User Guide
- Shift + Search + Period = Show ChromeVox command help
- Shift + Search = Hide ChromeVox command help
- Shift + Search + Forward Slash = Enable/Disable search
Browser Commands
- Shift + Search + O + K = Open keyboard explorer