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From: Vemaarapu Venkatesh
Date: Nov 4, 2016 12:46AM

Hello all, Greetings

Here are my couple of doubts related to the screen reader shortcuts,

1. In JAWS, to pull the list of desired elements like images, buttons etc
we will use Ctrl+Insert+ element's quick key. Curious to know, is any
similar shortcut like that in NVDA.

2. I find shortcut for item navigation in NVDA "Ins +4/ 6", Voice over "vo+
right/ left arrow keys" and also in Narrator but not in JAWS. When I want
to read the content in any dialog especially in desktop apps as we know
tabbing only takes us to interactive elements but not to any static
elements. In this context, I am using shortcut to move to next item where I
can access every corner of the dialog including static text. As I didn't
find any shortcut for item navigation unable to read the static content
using JAWS. For example unable to access item by item in my properties
dialog of my computer to read the system specifications.

Hope I am clear. Thanks for all your expertise in advance.

Thanks,
Venkatesh