Initial Plans

Our initial plans were to use the letters F and J to navigate the menu and read content with the keyboard. We have experienced problems with this arrangement during content addition, and was forced to change this to using F12 for the menu and Control + Shift + J for reading the page text.

Is This Difficult?

While this sounds initially to be a problem, careful thought has been put into this. If you look at a standard 104-key keyboard, you will see that the bottom left two keys are, indeed, Ctrl and Shift. For a blind person to find these keys should not be a problem at all.

But...

Since then, the Shift + Control + J buttons fell under scrutiny, and we decided to make it even easier. We now use Control + Enter for speech purposes. Furthermore we have implemented Control + Del for the menu activation, and Control + Insert for navigational hints. The final addition was to add the key combination Control + Number pad plus to stop any speech in progress. Easier than this we can't make it!