Available shortcut keys

To make this a bit easier, here are the known keys that are not used under Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP running Jaws 8 with no extras installed. As you can see the majority of available keys are in the control+alt and shift+control+alt sets. We recommend using keys in these sets as a best practice for web apps so users won't have to memorize both a set of letters and modifiers. If everybody can stick to control+alt users will start to use these as a habit. As a good UI design, shift+control+alt should be used for more powerful or alternate versions of unshifted commands. For example control+alt+d could be "delete" while shift+control+alt+d would be "delete all".

Modifiers	Available Keys	Available Specials
None	W Y ` 7 8 9 0 - = [ ] \ '^FF , .	Backspace, F2, F7, F9, F12, Escape, Delete
Shift	W Y ` 7 8 9 0 - = [ ] \ '	Backspace, F2, F5, F7, F8, F9, F11^IE, F12, Escape, Delete
Control	D^FF^IE G^FF J^FF^IE M Q S^FF T^FF^IE U^FF Y ` 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 0 -^FF^IE =^FF^IE [ ] \ ; ' , . /	Backspace, F2, F3, F7^FF, F8, F9, F11^IE, F12, Delete
Alt	B^FF C^IE G I J K L^IE M^IE N O^IE P^IE Q R^IE S^FF U W X Y Z^IE ` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = [ ] \ ; ' , . /	Backspace, F1, F2, F3, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11, F12, Insert, End, PageUp, PageDown
Shift+Alt	B^FF C^IE G I J K L^IE M^IE N O^IE P^IE Q R^IE S^FF U W X Y Z^IE ` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = [ ] \ ; ' , . /	Backspace, F1, F2, F3, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11, F12, Insert, Delete, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown
Shift+Control	A B C D E F^FF G^FF H^IE I^IE J^IE L M N O P Q R^FF S T U V W^FF X Y Z ` -^FF^IE =^FF^IE \ ; ' , . /	Backspace, Enter, F2, F3, F5, F7, F8, F9, F10^FF^IE, F12, Delete, PageUp, PageDown, Up, Down
Control+Alt	ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY`1^FF 2^FF 3^FF 4^FF 5^FF 6^FF 7^FF 8^FF 9^FF 0-=[]\;',./	Backspace, F2, F3, F5, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11, F12, Insert
Shift+Control+Alt	ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ`1^FF 2^FF 3^FF 4^FF 5^FF 6^FF 7^FF 8^FF 9^FF 0-=[]\;',./	Backspace, F2, F3, F5, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11^IE, F12, Insert, Delete, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown

FF - Firefox with no plugins on Windows XP also maps some more keys which are noted with an FF superscript in the table.
IE - Internet Explorer 7 with no plugins on Windows XP maps some more keys which are noted with an IE superscript in the table.

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