But it was like a dream come true when I began to work with screen readers. Yes screen readers do not rely on mouse. I could perform all activities only by my keyboard that someone could do with a mouse. Isn’t that cool??

Though at first I found it difficult and tiring job as I had to navigate to entire page with the arrow keys. But as I explored more I found many keystrokes that helped in scanning through a page through heading, quickly jumping to links, finding the form field etc.

Now Screen readers such as NVDA, JAWS and many more is been a part of my day to day job. But sometimes I too get confused with some of the keystrokes. So I always keep a Cheat sheet for screen reader commands handy with me!

So I thought of sharing it with the community so that users can access a webpage with ease.

Navigating Using both Jaws and NVDA:

The following table lists JAWS and NVDA commands for accessing website:

Keystrokes to read content:

Now let’s find out the commands for navigating with tables!

Keystrokes to read Table:

The following table lists JAWS and NVDA commands for reading Tables:

Now let’s find out the commands for interacting with Web forms!

Keystrokes to interact with Form Fields:

The following table lists JAWS and NVDA commands for reading Web forms:

Tip : Instead of remembering multiple keystrokes for various elements in JAWS, there is one master keystroke “Insert+F3”.

Hope this cheatsheet will make your life easier  and do share your experiences of using the above commands!!

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