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CTRL - Stop speech
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Shift - Pause / Resume speech
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NVDA + Spacebar - Toggle between browse mode and Focus mode. Browse mode is best for reading documents and is indicated with a tone. Focus mode is best for editing documents and is indicated with a typewriter click. If you are trying to write into a document or a form and you cannot, it is likely NVDA is in the wrong mode. Toggle it using this command!
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NVDA + m - Toggle mouse commands. With this on, NVDA will read whatever you hover the mouse over. I toggle this off to prevent being overwhelmed with audio
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NVDA + s - Toggle speech modes between: Off, Beeps, Talks (Talks is the default)
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NVDA + n, t, s - Turns on the NVDA speech viewer. You can see what NVDA is saying whilst the speech is turned off
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Down arrow - Read next line/item. Press up to move upwards to previous line/item
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Tab - Move to next focusable control (button, link, input field etc.)
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Shift + TAB - Move to previous focusable control
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H - Within a webpage, PDF or Word document, cycles through all headings. Press Shift to move backwards
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NVDA + 1 - Toggle input help on / off. With it on, every key combination you press will not be actioned, instead you will hear what it would do. Useful for learning
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L / I - Cycle through Lists and list Items In web pages, PDFs or Word docs. Press shift as well to move backwards through lists
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T - Cycle through tables. Press shift to move backwards through page
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CTRL + ALT + up/down/left/right - Navigate through tables
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NVDA + F7 - Elements list. Showing list of all headings, links, form controls and landmarks on the current page