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, F11IE, F12, Escape, Delete
Control DFFIE GFF JFFIE M Q SFF TFFIE UFF Y ` 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 0 -FFIE =FFIE [ ] \ ; ' , . / Backspace, F2, F3, F7FF, F8, F9, F11IE, F12, Delete
Alt BFF CIE G I J K LIE MIE N OIE PIE Q RIE SFF U W X Y ZIE ` 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 BFF CIE G I J K LIE MIE N OIE PIE Q RIE SFF U W X Y ZIE ` 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 FFF GFF HIE IIE JIE L M N O P Q RFF S T U V WFF X Y Z ` -FFIE =FFIE \ ; ' , . / Backspace, Enter, F2, F3, F5, F7, F8, F9, F10FFIE, F12, Delete, PageUp, PageDown, Up, Down
Control+Alt ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY`1FF 2FF 3FF 4FF 5FF 6FF 7FF 8FF 9FF 0-=[]\;',./ Backspace, F2, F3, F5, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11, F12, Insert
Shift+Control+Alt ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ`1FF 2FF 3FF 4FF 5FF 6FF 7FF 8FF 9FF 0-=[]\;',./ Backspace, F2, F3, F5, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11IE, 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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