SafePC · Screen reader
The on/off keyboard shortcut
Turn the screen reader on and off without the mouse: Ctrl + Alt + Enter.
Step by step
- Turn on the screen reader. Press Ctrl + Alt + Enter: hold down Ctrl and Alt, then press Enter. You hear "Screen reader on". (On a real PC the shortcut is Ctrl + the Windows logo key + Enter.)
- Press Tab twice. Press Tab, listen, then press Tab again. Each time the reader says where the keyboard is.
- Turn the screen reader off. Press Ctrl + Alt + Enter again. You hear "Screen reader off".
These steps are written for SafePC, a pretend Windows-style computer in your web browser. On your own computer, the buttons and menus may look a little different, but the idea is the same.
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