TurnOver: the guide

TurnOver beta guide

TurnOver is a screen reader for the Mac that works alongside VoiceOver. VoiceOver stays on; TurnOver reads every app with its own voice and the keys you already know, and VoiceOver handles passwords and macOS's own security prompts. This page is the short tour. Each section links to the guide that goes into detail.

Three things to remember

Command Control Comma is the way in to everything TurnOver: press it, hear "TurnOver", then a letter. M is the TurnOver menu, S the Settings window, K the keyboard style, H these guides. Any other key reads the list.
Command Control Period turns TurnOver off and on, from anywhere. Off, VoiceOver reads as usual.
Command Control Shift T gives the app in front to VoiceOver, or back to TurnOver, and remembers it.

Everything else is the keys of the screen reader you already know. See The TurnOver layer.

Choose your keys

TurnOver speaks three screen readers' keys. Press Command Control Comma, then K, until you hear the one you want:

- VoiceOver keys (the Mac style). Every key. VO is Control and Option together (or Caps Lock); VO arrows move, VO Space presses, VO Shift Down goes into things, VO U is the rotor. - NVDA keys (the Windows style). Every key. Caps Lock is the NVDA key; Caps Lock L reads the line, Caps Lock A reads to the end, Caps Lock F7 lists the links and headings, H and K jump by heading and link on a web page. - JAWS keys. Every key. JAWS's laptop layout: Caps Lock U, I and O for lines, J, K and L for words, Caps Lock Z for the virtual cursor, Caps Lock F6 and F7 for the lists.

The style changes which keys you press, never what TurnOver can do. Keyboard styles explains the differences and how the three fit on a Mac keyboard.

Reading

Arrow through text, documents, web pages and messages; say all reads to the end and stops where you were. In a web page or a message, single letters jump by heading, link, button or form field, and Return or Space presses. See Reading and say all.

The apps

TurnOver reads every app. For the ones people use most, it adds keys and reading of its own: Mail, Messages and WhatsApp, Word and Excel, Safari, Music, Podcasts, Calendar, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Terminal, Steam and more. Each app's own keys are listed at the end of the key pages, and described in The apps. An app that VoiceOver does better can stay VoiceOver's: Command Control Shift T.

When something isn't read well

- Screen recognition (Command Control Comma, then R) reads a window from the screen itself, for apps that tell the Mac nothing about their windows. - Plugins teach TurnOver an app: its names for things, its keys, what to read. Anyone can write one, as data, no programming needed, and share it. See Plugins. - Give the app to VoiceOver with Command Control Shift T.

Help and problems

- Keyboard help: the TurnOver menu, Keys, then keyboard help: every key says what it does without doing it. - Every shortcut here: Command Control Comma, then Slash: the keys that work where you are, in a list. - Something wrong: Troubleshooting and feedback. Reports go through GitHub, where everyone can see and help with them. - What TurnOver does with your data: Privacy and security.

TurnOver is free and open source, made in spare time. The code, the plugins and the ways to help are at github.com/TurnOver-For-Mac/turnover.

Getting started

TurnOver is a screen reader for the Mac. It uses VoiceOver's keys, so what you already know works, and it reads the apps you use every day more simply than VoiceOver does. It runs on macOS 14 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel.

Installing

Move TurnOver to your Applications folder and open it. A welcome message explains what it needs.
Turn TurnOver on in System Settings, Privacy and Security, under Accessibility (called Device Control and Data Access on macOS 27) and under Input Monitoring. macOS asks for the first; if it doesn't ask for the second, TurnOver tells you where it is.

Starting and stopping

- Command Control Period starts TurnOver, or stops it, from anywhere. A rising chime means on, a falling one off. When TurnOver stops, VoiceOver takes over. - Command Control Shift T gives the app in front to VoiceOver, or back to TurnOver, and remembers it. TurnOver reads every app unless you give one to VoiceOver; VoiceOver always handles passwords and macOS's own prompts. - To start TurnOver when you log in: the TurnOver menu, Settings, Starting, Open TurnOver at login.

The first five minutes

- Press Command Control Comma. TurnOver says "TurnOver": press M for the TurnOver menu. Up and Down move, Right or Return opens, Escape closes. - Press Command Control Comma twice to hear every letter you can press after it. - Your VoiceOver voice, speed and verbosity can come with you: the TurnOver menu, Settings, Copy VoiceOver settings, then Copy. Revert, beside it, puts back what you had before.

Updates

TurnOver checks once a day. When there is a new build it says so and asks whether to install it. The TurnOver menu, About and updates, Updates checks now; What's new lists every build's changes.

The TurnOver layer

TurnOver keeps its own commands behind one key, so it never takes a shortcut away from your apps: press Command Control Comma, hear "TurnOver", then press a letter. It works in every app, including ones VoiceOver reads.

The letters

Letter: What it does M: The TurnOver menu S: The Settings window: every setting, sections down the side T: Switches the app in front between TurnOver and VoiceOver, and remembers it (also straight away: Command Control Shift T) D: Direct: every key goes straight to the app in front and neither TurnOver nor VoiceOver says anything there, for a game or app that speaks for itself. Command shortcuts (Command Tab, Command Q) still work. D again to leave; remembered A: Who reads: TurnOver in its apps, TurnOver everywhere, or VoiceOver everywhere V: Copies your VoiceOver settings: voice, speed, pitch, verbosity K: Goes round the keyboard styles: VoiceOver keys, NVDA keys, JAWS keys J: "That was wrong": marks this moment for your next feedback report H: This guide I: Describes the picture under TurnOver's cursor C: Copies the last thing TurnOver said G: Trackpad gesture control on or off (experimental) R: Screen recognition: reads a window from the screen itself Slash: Every shortcut that works where you are, in a list; Return runs one

Any other key says the list again. Escape, or three seconds with no letter, cancels.

Command Control Period

A single press starts or stops TurnOver from anywhere, even if TurnOver has stopped answering: a small helper, TurnOver Key, listens for it from login.

The TurnOver menu

- This app: who reads the app in front, and that app's own commands. Apps whose support is new say "experimental support". - Settings: speech (with the say all voice), keyboard, braille, documents, web pages, sounds, and Experimental. - Apps: which apps TurnOver reads. - Keys: every shortcut, keyboard help, and your own keys. - Send feedback, About and updates, Quit.

In the menu, Right or Return opens a submenu or changes a setting; on a number (rate, volume) Left turns it down. Settings that restart TurnOver change only with Return.

Reading and say all

Web pages and messages

Web pages and email messages are read as a document. Up and Down go line by line; Option with the arrows, word by word. Single letters jump: in the Mac style, VoiceOver's Quick Nav letters (H heading, L link, F text field, T table, 1 to 6 headings by level); in the Windows style, NVDA's. TurnOver Space switches between reading the page and typing into it. Enter activates a link or button.

Say all

Say all reads from where you are to the end: VO A in the Mac style, Caps Lock A in the Windows style (Caps Lock Down Arrow with the desktop keyboard layout). It moves the caret as it goes.

- Any key stops it, and the caret is left on the word you had reached, not the start of the paragraph. - Up and Down during say all skim: they move a line and carry on reading from there.

The say all voice

Say all can read in a natural voice made on your Mac, while everything else (moving, typing, menus) stays in your usual voice, which answers at once. The TurnOver menu, Settings, Speech, Say all voice: "Same as speech", or a natural voice. Natural voice speed is there too.

The natural voice reads ahead: while one paragraph plays, the next ones are being made, so it never waits. Natural voices speak English for now; other languages keep your Mac's voices.

Documents

In Word, Pages and TextEdit, the arrows read as they move. VO Command H goes to the next heading (Shift for the previous). In Pages, a table's line says its size; VO Shift Down reads it cell by cell (the arrows move, each cell said with its row or column heading), and VO Shift Up or Escape comes back. Comments and highlights are said after the line that holds them. TurnOver says the page as you move onto it.

PDFs in Preview (experimental)

A PDF is read like a web page: line by line across pages, with "page 2 of 5" as you reach each page, and headings by H. Highlights, notes and text boxes, which Preview hides from VoiceOver, are read where they sit.

The apps

What TurnOver adds in each app it reads. To give an app to TurnOver or back to VoiceOver: Command Control Comma, T.

Mail

Up and Down move through the messages; Home and End go to the first and last. The message is read as a document. Tab goes from the list to the message, Shift Tab to the mailboxes. Command Shift D sends, and TurnOver says "sent".

Messages and WhatsApp

The keyboard stays in the message box. Shift Tab goes up to the messages, newest first; Up and Down move; the shortcut menu (VO Shift M) lists a message's actions; Escape goes back to the box. Command Control 1 to 9 read the latest messages from anywhere, 1 the newest. New messages are read as they arrive.

Music, Podcasts and TV

Up and Down move through the page, shelf by shelf; Left and Right jump between shelves; Return plays; Space pauses and says which.

The App Store

Up and Down move through every app and button; Left and Right between shelves. Return opens an app's page; Space presses its own button (Get, Open, Update). Command F searches.

Microsoft Word and Excel

Word reads as you move, says the page as you reach it, and has VoiceOver's keys for headings, tracked changes and spelling errors (VO Command H, R, E). Tables say each cell with its headings. In Excel, cells are read as you move.

Calendar (experimental)

Read as a diary, in day, week and month view: Left and Right a day at a time, with its number of events; **Up and Down through that day's events, the time first; Option Up and Down a week at a time; Return** opens an event. Command T goes to today.

Pages, Numbers and Keynote (experimental)

- Pages: headings by VO Command H, tables cell by cell with VO Shift Down, comments and highlights read in place, the page said as you reach it. - Numbers: an arrow on an empty sheet goes into its first table; moving says each cell with its column's or row's heading ("Sales, 1521"); VO Command T and Shift T go between tables. - Keynote: moving between slides reads the slide, title first, with its notes when they are showing. While a presentation plays, each slide is read as you move (macOS asks once whether TurnOver may control Keynote).

Terminal

New output is read as it arrives; your own typing isn't read twice. TurnOver Up and Down review earlier lines.

Steam

Steam's Big Picture is read as you move, once you turn it on: the TurnOver menu, Games, Read Steam's Big Picture. It's off to begin with because reading it makes Steam open a debugging port on your Mac while Steam runs, which other programs on the same Mac could use too; turning it off, or uninstalling TurnOver, removes that again. Games that support it speak through TurnOver without any of this.

Keyboard styles

TurnOver speaks three screen readers' keys. Press Command Control Comma, then K, until you hear the one you want; the TurnOver menu, Settings, Keyboard, and the Settings window offer the same choice. The style changes which keys you press, never what TurnOver can do.

VoiceOver keys (the Mac style)

VoiceOver's own keys, doing what they do in VoiceOver. VO is Control and Option together; Caps Lock works as VO too. VO arrows move around, VO Space presses, VO Shift Down and Up go into and out of things, VO U is the rotor, VO M the menu bar, VO D the Dock, VO Shift M the shortcut menu. VO Command Shift with the arrows changes speech settings, VO Command with the arrows moves by the rotor's kind. Control pauses speech. One Quick Nav is shared with VoiceOver.

Every key, VoiceOver keys.

NVDA keys (the Windows style)

NVDA's own keys, doing what they do in NVDA. Caps Lock is the NVDA key (Control and Option works too): Caps Lock N the TurnOver menu, Caps Lock 1 keyboard help, Caps Lock L the current line, Caps Lock A say all, Caps Lock F7 the elements list, Caps Lock Space browse mode on and off. Control stops speech. Where NVDA uses Alt, TurnOver uses the Mac's Command key, which sits where Alt does on a PC keyboard. The role is said before the words, as NVDA says them.

Every key, NVDA keys.

JAWS keys

JAWS's laptop layout, with Caps Lock as the JAWS key. The reading grid: Caps Lock U, I and O for the previous, current and next line; J, K and L for words; M, Comma and Period for characters; Y, H and N for sentences; Control U, I and O for paragraphs. Caps Lock Shift J and L read the line up to and from the cursor. Caps Lock Z is the virtual cursor, Caps Lock F5, F6 and F7 the lists of form fields, headings and links, Caps Lock Semicolon the PC cursor and Caps Lock P the JAWS cursor, Caps Lock 8 and 9 click. During say all, Left and Right go back and on a sentence, and Page Up and Page Down change the speed for that say all. Every other key is NVDA's.

Every key, JAWS keys.

On a Mac keyboard

- Insert doesn't exist, so every Insert, NVDA or JAWS key chord becomes Caps Lock. - The Mac's own shortcuts win. Where a Windows reader's key collides with a Mac shortcut (Command Comma opens every app's settings, Command Period cancels), the reader's command sits on a second key, listed on its page. - Windows' Control is often the Mac's Command for app shortcuts: copy, find, new tab. In screen reader chords it stays Control. - Home, End, Page Up and Page Down are Fn with the arrows on a laptop keyboard. F1 to F12 need Fn unless the Mac is set to use them as standard function keys.

In every style

- TurnOver's own commands behind Command Control Comma never change with the style. - Keyboard help (the TurnOver menu, Keys) says what any key does without doing it. - Command Control Comma, then Slash, lists every key that works where you are. - Your own keys (the TurnOver menu, Keys, My own keys) sit on top of any style.

Coexist

CoExist keeps VoiceOver running alongside TurnOver. Wherever TurnOver reads, VoiceOver is silenced at the sound level, so you hear only TurnOver; in an app you give to VoiceOver, VoiceOver is heard at once, as if TurnOver weren't there. Switching is instant, and nothing is said as it happens. It is on unless you turn it off.

What to expect

- In TurnOver's apps you hear TurnOver; VoiceOver is running but silent. - Command Control Comma, then T gives the app in front to VoiceOver: TurnOver lets the keys and the mouse through and VoiceOver is heard. The same again gives it back. - In a password field, and in macOS's own prompts (passwords, Touch ID, "Allow" questions), VoiceOver is heard, so Apple's own reader is the one there. - Command Control Period turns TurnOver off and on; VoiceOver then has every app. - If TurnOver stops or gets stuck for more than a few seconds, VoiceOver is heard again. - Nothing of VoiceOver's is changed: its settings, voices and Activities stay as they are. - With CoExist on, TurnOver's own braille is off: VoiceOver keeps the display.

Turning it off

The TurnOver menu, Settings, Experimental, CoExist, then Return. TurnOver restarts and turns VoiceOver off where it reads, as it did before CoExist.

Good to know

Silencing VoiceOver's sound from outside is new, and a macOS or VoiceOver update could change how it behaves. Please report anything odd.

Troubleshooting and feedback

TurnOver stops answering

VoiceOver comes back by itself within a few seconds, and your keys work again; if TurnOver is still stuck, it restarts itself. Command Control Period stops or starts it from anywhere.

No sound at all

If even VoiceOver is silent, macOS's sound service may have stopped. In Terminal, run this and type your password:

sudo killall coreaudiod

Or restart the Mac. Then press Command Control Period to start TurnOver.

Force quit, spoken

Command Option Escape lists the running apps: choose one, then force quit it, ask it to quit, or cancel.

Sending feedback

- The moment something goes wrong: Command Control Comma, J marks it, and you carry on. - When you're ready: the TurnOver menu, Send feedback. A report is saved to your Desktop, and TurnOver's problem form opens on GitHub with your build and Mac filled in. Say in a sentence what you were doing and what you expected, and drag the report in if you like. Reports on GitHub are public: choose the report without what TurnOver said if anything private was on screen. - To ask for an app: switch to it, then the TurnOver menu, This app, Ask for it to be tuned. The request form opens on GitHub, filled in with how the app is built (never what's in it). - You need a free GitHub account to post. TurnOver is a spare-time project: every report is read, but replies may take a while.

Removing TurnOver

The TurnOver menu, About and updates, Uninstall TurnOver: the app only (your settings kept), or everything (settings, logs, permissions and login items), which also turns VoiceOver on and removes anything an earlier TurnOver put into VoiceOver's settings.

Privacy and security

A screen reader has to see everything on your Mac and hear every key, so it asks for macOS's most powerful permissions. This page says what each is for, what never leaves your Mac, and how you can check for yourself.

The permissions, and why

- Accessibility: to read apps, windows and controls, and to move and press them for you. Every screen reader needs it. - Input Monitoring: to hear TurnOver's keys (VO keys, the TurnOver layer, quick navigation). TurnOver looks at a key to see whether it is one of its commands; anything else goes straight on to the app. - Screen Recording: only for screen recognition and describing a picture, when you ask. Both run on your Mac. - Automation (asked once, for one app at a time): for example Keynote, to read a slide while a show plays. - Audio (CoExist): to keep VoiceOver's sound quiet while TurnOver reads. A small separate program, voiceover-quiet, mutes VoiceOver's sound and throws it away: nothing is recorded, saved or sent, and no other app's sound is touched.

TurnOver does not ask for Full Disk Access.

What leaves your Mac

TurnOver connects to one place by itself: its update site, `doll-eye.github.io/turnover-updates`, to check for a new build. Nothing about you or what you do is sent: it only fetches that file.

Everything else happens on your Mac:

- Speech, including the natural say all voice, is made on your Mac. - Screen recognition and picture descriptions use Apple's on-device recognition and model. - Game speech listens only on this Mac (it accepts nothing from the network), and never speaks over Apple's apps or a browser. Reading Steam's Big Picture is off until you turn it on, because it makes Steam open a debugging port on this Mac while it runs; turning it off, or uninstalling TurnOver, removes that again.

Things you choose to send, and see before they go:

- Send feedback saves a report on your Desktop and opens TurnOver's problem form on GitHub in your browser. You write the report yourself, and attach the file only if you choose to; TurnOver never sends anything on its own. Reports on GitHub are public. - Ask for this app to be tuned opens the request form on GitHub, filled in with how the app is built (kinds of item and counts, never what is in it), for you to post.

Check it yourself

You don't have to take our word for it. Install a firewall that shows every connection, such as LuLu (free, from objective-see.org) or Little Snitch, and use TurnOver as usual. You will see TurnOver contact its update site, and nothing else.

What TurnOver keeps

TurnOver keeps a log on your Mac, in your Library folder: Application Support, TurnOver, logs. Logs older than 30 days are deleted.

- The log records what TurnOver did: the app, the kind of item, the command a key ran. - It never records what you type. A typed key is written as "a typed key", never the key itself. - It doesn't record the words you were reading. Where a name, a page or a message would appear, the log keeps only how many characters it had.

The log is plain text: you are welcome to open it and read it.

A feedback report holds these logs. "Send a report with what TurnOver said" also includes what TurnOver said aloud in the last 15 minutes, which can be the text of an email or page you were reading; "Send a report without what TurnOver said" leaves it out. Either way the report is a file on your Desktop: you decide whether to attach it, and since GitHub reports are public, choose the one without what TurnOver said if anything private was on screen.

Who can talk to TurnOver

TurnOver's own helpers (its Settings window, the Command Control Period helper, the plugin tool, Windy) reach it through a private channel in TurnOver's own folder. Before anything is read, macOS checks that the program on the other end is signed by TurnOver's developer; any other program is turned away and the refusal is logged. A copy you build yourself without a developer certificate accepts only the programs inside its own app. Like any app's, TurnOver's settings file can be changed by programs running as you; a script you give a key to asks you before it first runs.

Apps that speak through TurnOver

An app can ask TurnOver to speak for it (a game, for example), through a port on this Mac only. TurnOver works out for itself which program is asking (from the Mac's own records, not from what the app says), and the first time asks you, by name, whether you trust it. An app you allow is heard only while it is the app in front, and it can do nothing but speak: no settings, no keys. Settings, Apps that speak through TurnOver, lists them and changes your answer.

Passwords and security prompts

With CoExist on (it is unless you turn it off), VoiceOver stays running alongside TurnOver, and everything to do with security is VoiceOver's:

- Password fields, in any app or web page: when one has the keyboard (macOS's secure typing is on, or TurnOver lands in one), TurnOver steps aside completely. It doesn't read the field and doesn't take your keys; VoiceOver is heard. TurnOver comes back when you leave it. - Typing into a password field is never spoken or logged by TurnOver, even where an app hides that the keyboard is in one. - macOS's own prompts (an administrator password, the keychain, Touch ID, "Allow" questions): the same, VoiceOver's from the moment they open until they close.

So Apple's own reader is the one with you whenever you type a password or approve something, and TurnOver never sees it. With CoExist off, TurnOver still never speaks or logs what you type into a password field.

When we get something wrong

We'll say so here and in What's new.

- 18 October 2026: in Kindle's Amazon sign-in, TurnOver read the password aloud as it was typed, because the page told TurnOver the keyboard was somewhere other than the password field. It was found the same day and fixed for every app: typing into a password field is never spoken or logged, wherever the app says the keyboard is. It needed an app that hides where the keyboard is, as Kindle's sign-in does; Kindle support was new that day, so we know of no released build where it happened.

Questions

Ask on TurnOver's GitHub page (github.com/TurnOver-For-Mac/turnover), from the TurnOver menu, Send feedback. Something that could expose what a person reads or types is best reported privately, through the repository's Security tab.

Voiceover keys: every key

This page is made from TurnOver's own command tables (`turnover-coretest --keys-reference`, 20 Oct 2026), so it matches the build it came with. Don't edit it by hand.

The VoiceOver keys style (the Mac style): VoiceOver's own keys, doing what they do in VoiceOver. TurnOver in a key means the TurnOver key: Control and Option together (VO), or Caps Lock. Keys VoiceOver has that aren't listed here go to VoiceOver as usual where VoiceOver reads, and do nothing special where TurnOver reads. Keyboard help (the TurnOver menu, Keys) says what any key does without doing it; Command Control Comma, then Slash, lists the keys that work where you are.

Switch styles with Command Control Comma, then K. TurnOver's own commands behind Command Control Comma are the same in every style: see The TurnOver layer.

TurnOver

Key: What it does Option Command Escape: Force quit an application; lists the running applications to force quit one, with a confirmation (the Mac's Force Quit window, spoken)

VoiceOver keys

Key: What it does TurnOver 0: Goes to hot spot 0 (VO-0) TurnOver 1: Goes to hot spot 1 (VO-1) TurnOver 2: Goes to hot spot 2 (VO-2) TurnOver 3: Goes to hot spot 3 (VO-3) TurnOver 4: Goes to hot spot 4 (VO-4) TurnOver 5: Goes to hot spot 5 (VO-5) TurnOver 6: Goes to hot spot 6 (VO-6) TurnOver 7: Goes to hot spot 7 (VO-7) TurnOver 8: Goes to hot spot 8 (VO-8) TurnOver 9: Goes to hot spot 9 (VO-9) TurnOver A: Reads the VoiceOver cursor's contents: in text or a page, from the cursor on; elsewhere everything in the item (VO-A) TurnOver B: Reads from the beginning to here (VO-B) TurnOver Backslash: Opens or closes the disclosure triangle (VO-Backslash) TurnOver Backspace: Deletes the tab stop on a ruler (VO-Backspace) TurnOver C: In a table, the column header (twice, the column from here down); elsewhere the character (twice, phonetically) (VO-C, VO-C-C) TurnOver D: The Dock (VO-D) TurnOver End: In text, the end of the text; elsewhere the last item in the group (VO-End) TurnOver Enter: In a text field, starts or stops selecting text; elsewhere selects the list or menu item (VO-Return) TurnOver F1: Says the application and its windows; pressed twice, the application chooser (VO-F1, VO-F1-F1) TurnOver F10: Tile visuals (VO-F10): not in TurnOver yet TurnOver F2: Says the window's title; pressed twice, the window chooser (VO-F2, VO-F2-F2) TurnOver F3: The item's description; in text, the word and character; twice, how many lines (VO-F3, VO-F3-F3) TurnOver F4: Describes the item with keyboard focus; twice, more about it (in text, where the insertion point is) (VO-F4, VO-F4-F4) TurnOver F5: The item under the mouse pointer; twice, where the pointer is on the screen; three times, in the window (VO-F5) TurnOver F6: Reads the selected item (VO-F6) TurnOver F7: The date and time; twice, the battery; three times, the network (VO-F7, VO-F7-F7, VO-F7-F7-F7) TurnOver F8: VoiceOver Utility (VO-F8); TurnOver's own settings are Command Control Comma, S TurnOver Grave: Moves the window with the arrow keys; Escape stops (VO-Grave Accent) TurnOver H: The help menu; pressed twice, the commands (VO-H, VO-H-H) TurnOver Home: In text, the start of the text; elsewhere the first item in the group (VO-Home) TurnOver I: Everything in the window or page, narrowed as you type; Enter goes there (VO-I) TurnOver J: Jump to the linked item; jumps to the linked item, such as from the message list to the message (VO-J) TurnOver K: Keyboard help: every key says what it does (VO-K) TurnOver L: Reads the line (VO-L) TurnOver M: The application's menus (VO-M); pressed twice, the status menus (VO-M-M) TurnOver N: The notifications heard lately (VO-N) TurnOver NumpadClear: NumPad Commander on or off: the keypad runs VoiceOver's commands (VO-Clear) TurnOver O: Opens or closes Notification Centre (VO-O) TurnOver P: Reads the paragraph (VO-P) TurnOver Q: Browse mode on or off: single-letter navigation (VO-Q) TurnOver R: Reads the row header; twice, the row from here to its end (VO-R, VO-R-R) TurnOver S: Reads the sentence (VO-S) TurnOver Semicolon: Locks or unlocks the VO keys: every key is a VO key until unlocked (VO-Semicolon) TurnOver Slash: Labels the item, and more: the plugin maker (VO-Slash) TurnOver Space: Activates the item under the VoiceOver cursor (VO-Space) TurnOver T: Reads the text attributes (VO-T) TurnOver Tab: The next key goes to the application untouched (VO-Tab) TurnOver U: The rotor: headings, links, form controls, landmarks… Left and Right change kind (VO-U) TurnOver V: Verbosity: punctuation, item details and hints (VO-V) TurnOver W: Reads the word; twice, spells it; three times, spells it phonetically (VO-W) TurnOver X: Activities: sets of speech, verbosity, web and braille settings, by hand or for an app (VO-X) TurnOver Z: Repeats the last thing spoken (VO-Z) TurnOver Command 0: Describes hot spot 0 (VO-Command-0) TurnOver Command 1: Describes hot spot 1 (VO-Command-1) TurnOver Command 2: Describes hot spot 2 (VO-Command-2) TurnOver Command 3: Describes hot spot 3 (VO-Command-3) TurnOver Command 4: Describes hot spot 4 (VO-Command-4) TurnOver Command 5: Describes hot spot 5 (VO-Command-5) TurnOver Command 6: Describes hot spot 6 (VO-Command-6) TurnOver Command 7: Describes hot spot 7 (VO-Command-7) TurnOver Command 8: Describes hot spot 8 (VO-Command-8) TurnOver Command 9: Describes hot spot 9 (VO-Command-9) TurnOver Command B: Next bold text (VO-Command-B) TurnOver Command Backslash: Jumps back to the parent folder (VO-Command-Backslash) TurnOver Command C: Next style change (VO-Command-C) TurnOver Command D: Next different item (VO-Command-D) TurnOver Command E: Next spelling error (VO-Command-E) TurnOver Command End: The last item in the window (VO-Command-End) TurnOver Command Enter: Add to or remove from the selection; adds the item to the selection, or takes it out, keeping the others (VO-Command-Return) TurnOver Command Equals: Grouping in a table (VO-Command-Equals): pages don't offer it to TurnOver TurnOver Command Escape: Closes the window (VO-Command-Escape) TurnOver Command F: Next frame (VO-Command-F) TurnOver Command F10: The caption panel (VO-Command-F10): not in TurnOver yet TurnOver Command F11: The cursor and panels on screen (VO-Command-F11): not in TurnOver yet TurnOver Command F2: The window's size and where it is on the screen (VO-Command-F2) TurnOver Command F3: The item's size and where it is on the screen (VO-Command-F3) TurnOver Command F4: The keyboard focus to the VoiceOver cursor (VO-Command-F4) TurnOver Command F5: The mouse pointer to the VoiceOver cursor (VO-Command-F5) TurnOver Command F8: The TurnOver guide, until there is a tutorial (VO-Command-F8) TurnOver Command F9: The braille panel (VO-Command-F9): not in TurnOver yet TurnOver Command G: Next graphic (VO-Command-G) TurnOver Command Grave: Moves the item with the arrow keys, where it can be moved; Escape stops (VO-Command-Grave Accent) TurnOver Command H: Next heading (VO-Command-H) TurnOver Command Home: The first item in the window (VO-Command-Home) TurnOver Command I: Next italic text (VO-Command-I) TurnOver Command J: Next form control (VO-Command-J) TurnOver Command K: Next colour change (VO-Command-K) TurnOver Command L: Next link (VO-Command-L) TurnOver Command M: Next heading of the same level (VO-Command-M) TurnOver Command O: Next font change (VO-Command-O) TurnOver Command P: Next plain text (VO-Command-P) TurnOver Command Q: Next blockquote (VO-Command-Q) TurnOver Command R: Next tracked change (VO-Command-R) TurnOver Command S: Next item of the same type (VO-Command-S) TurnOver Command Slash: Reads additional content for the item (VO-Command-Slash) TurnOver Command Space: The item's actions, to choose from (VO-Command-Space) TurnOver Command T: Next table (VO-Command-T) TurnOver Command U: Next underlined text (VO-Command-U) TurnOver Command V: Next visited link (VO-Command-V) TurnOver Command W: Next blockquote of the same level (VO-Command-W) TurnOver Command X: Next list (VO-Command-X) TurnOver Command Y: Next column (VO-Command-Y): pages don't offer it to TurnOver TurnOver Down arrow: Next line in text; elsewhere the item below (VO-Down) TurnOver Left arrow: Previous item (VO-Left) TurnOver Left bracket: The previous part of the window (VO-Left Bracket) TurnOver Right arrow: Next item (VO-Right) TurnOver Right bracket: The next part of the window: sidebar, toolbar, content (VO-Right Bracket) TurnOver Shift 0: Sets or removes hot spot 0 (VO-Shift-0) TurnOver Shift 1: Sets or removes hot spot 1 (VO-Shift-1) TurnOver Shift 2: Sets or removes hot spot 2 (VO-Shift-2) TurnOver Shift 3: Sets or removes hot spot 3 (VO-Shift-3) TurnOver Shift 4: Sets or removes hot spot 4 (VO-Shift-4) TurnOver Shift 5: Sets or removes hot spot 5 (VO-Shift-5) TurnOver Shift 6: Sets or removes hot spot 6 (VO-Shift-6) TurnOver Shift 7: Sets or removes hot spot 7 (VO-Shift-7) TurnOver Shift 8: Sets or removes hot spot 8 (VO-Shift-8) TurnOver Shift 9: Sets or removes hot spot 9 (VO-Shift-9) TurnOver Shift A: Selects all the text in the VoiceOver cursor (VO-Shift-A) TurnOver Shift Backslash: On a page, how many headings, links, tables…; in a table, the column's sort button (VO-Shift-Vertical Line) TurnOver Shift C: Copies the last thing spoken (VO-Shift-C) TurnOver Shift D: Moves to the desktop (VO-Shift-D) TurnOver Shift End: In text, the last word in view; elsewhere the last item in the group (VO-Shift-End) TurnOver Shift Escape: Out to the top level of the window (VO-Shift-Escape) TurnOver Shift F: The find commands: bold, headings, links… (VO-Shift-F) TurnOver Shift F10: Moving the caption panel (VO-Shift-F10): not in TurnOver yet TurnOver Shift F11: Screen Curtain on or off (VO-Shift-F11) TurnOver Shift F2: Brings the VoiceOver cursor's window to the front (VO-Shift-F2) TurnOver Shift F3: Cursor tracking off or on for now: the VoiceOver cursor stays put as the focus moves (VO-Shift-F3) TurnOver Shift F4: The VoiceOver cursor to the keyboard focus (VO-Shift-F4) TurnOver Shift F5: The VoiceOver cursor to the item under the mouse pointer (VO-Shift-F5) TurnOver Shift F9: Moving the braille panel (VO-Shift-F9): not in TurnOver yet TurnOver Shift Grave: Resizes the window with the arrow keys; Escape stops (VO-Tilde) TurnOver Shift H: Reads the item's help tag (VO-Shift-H) TurnOver Shift Home: In text, the first word in view; elsewhere the first item in the group (VO-Shift-Home) TurnOver Shift J: Jumps to the input method or autocorrect panel (VO-Shift-J) TurnOver Shift K: Option key Commander on or off: right Option with a letter runs a command (VO-Shift-K) TurnOver Shift L: Describes the image or photo (VO-Shift-L) TurnOver Shift M: The shortcut menu for the item (VO-Shift-M) TurnOver Shift N: Reads the hint for the item (VO-Shift-N) TurnOver Shift O: Opens or closes Control Centre (VO-Shift-O) TurnOver Shift Q: Arrow-key Quick Nav on or off: Left and Right move the VoiceOver cursor, Up and Down the item above and below (VO-Shift-Q; Left and Right Arrow together) TurnOver Shift S: Scrolls the area the VoiceOver cursor is in: arrows, Page Up and Page Down, Shift Page Up and Down to the top and bottom; Escape stops (VO-Shift-S) TurnOver Shift Slash: Opens the TurnOver guide (VO-Shift-Slash) TurnOver Shift Space: Clicks the item with the mouse; pressed twice, a double click (VO-Shift-Space, VO-Shift-Space-Space) TurnOver Shift T: Reads the row and column number; twice, how many rows and columns (VO-Shift-T, VO-Shift-T-T) TurnOver Shift U: Reads a link's address (VO-Shift-U) TurnOver Shift W: Reads everything in the window (VO-Shift-W) TurnOver Shift X: The hot spot chooser (VO-Shift-X) TurnOver Shift Z: Save the last phrase to the Desktop; saves the last spoken phrase, with TurnOver's log, to a file on the Desktop (VO-Shift-Z) TurnOver Up arrow: Previous line in text; elsewhere the item above (VO-Up) TurnOver Command Down arrow: The next item of the rotor's kind (VO-Command-Down) TurnOver Command Left arrow: The rotor's previous kind (VO-Command-Left) TurnOver Command Left bracket: Your previous window spot (VO-Command-Left Bracket) TurnOver Command Page down: Reads the next sentence (VO-Command-Page Down) TurnOver Command Page up: Reads the previous sentence (VO-Command-Page Up) TurnOver Command Right arrow: The rotor's next kind: headings, links, form controls, tables… (VO-Command-Right) TurnOver Command Right bracket: Your next window spot (VO-Command-Right Bracket) TurnOver Command Shift 0: Watches hot spot 0 for changes, or stops (VO-Command-Shift-0) TurnOver Command Shift 1: Watches hot spot 1 for changes, or stops (VO-Command-Shift-1) TurnOver Command Shift 2: Watches hot spot 2 for changes, or stops (VO-Command-Shift-2) TurnOver Command Shift 3: Watches hot spot 3 for changes, or stops (VO-Command-Shift-3) TurnOver Command Shift 4: Watches hot spot 4 for changes, or stops (VO-Command-Shift-4) TurnOver Command Shift 5: Watches hot spot 5 for changes, or stops (VO-Command-Shift-5) TurnOver Command Shift 6: Watches hot spot 6 for changes, or stops (VO-Command-Shift-6) TurnOver Command Shift 7: Watches hot spot 7 for changes, or stops (VO-Command-Shift-7) TurnOver Command Shift 8: Watches hot spot 8 for changes, or stops (VO-Command-Shift-8) TurnOver Command Shift 9: Watches hot spot 9 for changes, or stops (VO-Command-Shift-9) TurnOver Command Shift B: Previous bold text (VO-Command-Shift-B) TurnOver Command Shift C: Previous style change (VO-Command-Shift-C) TurnOver Command Shift D: Previous different item (VO-Command-Shift-D) TurnOver Command Shift E: Previous spelling error (VO-Command-Shift-E) TurnOver Command Shift F: Previous frame (VO-Command-Shift-F) TurnOver Command Shift G: Previous graphic (VO-Command-Shift-G) TurnOver Command Shift Grave: Resizes the item with the arrow keys, where it can be; Escape stops (VO-Command-Tilde) TurnOver Command Shift H: Previous heading (VO-Command-Shift-H) TurnOver Command Shift I: Previous italic text (VO-Command-Shift-I) TurnOver Command Shift J: Previous form control (VO-Command-Shift-J) TurnOver Command Shift K: Previous colour change (VO-Command-Shift-K) TurnOver Command Shift L: Previous link (VO-Command-Shift-L) TurnOver Command Shift M: Previous heading of the same level (VO-Command-Shift-M) TurnOver Command Shift O: Previous font change (VO-Command-Shift-O) TurnOver Command Shift P: Previous plain text (VO-Command-Shift-P) TurnOver Command Shift Q: Previous blockquote (VO-Command-Shift-Q) TurnOver Command Shift R: Previous tracked change (VO-Command-Shift-R) TurnOver Command Shift S: Previous item of the same type (VO-Command-Shift-S) TurnOver Command Shift Space: Mouse button down at the VoiceOver cursor; again, up where the cursor is then: a drag (VO-Command-Shift-Space) TurnOver Command Shift T: Previous table (VO-Command-Shift-T) TurnOver Command Shift U: Previous underlined text (VO-Command-Shift-U) TurnOver Command Shift V: Previous visited link (VO-Command-Shift-V) TurnOver Command Shift W: Previous blockquote of the same level (VO-Command-Shift-W) TurnOver Command Shift X: Previous list (VO-Command-Shift-X) TurnOver Command Shift Y: Previous column (VO-Command-Shift-Y): pages don't offer it to TurnOver TurnOver Command Up arrow: The previous item of the rotor's kind (VO-Command-Up) TurnOver Shift Down arrow: Into the item: its first part (VO-Shift-Down) TurnOver Shift Left arrow: The previous group, without going into it (VO-Shift-Left) TurnOver Shift Left bracket: Previous hot spot (VO-Shift-Left Bracket) TurnOver Shift Page down: Reads the next paragraph (VO-Shift-Page Down) TurnOver Shift Page up: Reads the previous paragraph (VO-Shift-Page Up) TurnOver Shift Right arrow: The next group, without going into it (VO-Shift-Right) TurnOver Shift Right bracket: Next hot spot (VO-Shift-Right Bracket) TurnOver Shift Up arrow: Out of the item: what holds it (VO-Shift-Up) TurnOver Command Shift Down arrow: Lowers the speech setting (VO-Command-Shift-Down) TurnOver Command Shift Left arrow: Previous speech setting (VO-Command-Shift-Left) TurnOver Command Shift Left bracket: Removes your window spot here (VO-Command-Shift-Left Bracket) TurnOver Command Shift Right arrow: Next speech setting: voice, rate, pitch, volume, punctuation (VO-Command-Shift-Right) TurnOver Command Shift Right bracket: Makes the item a window spot of your own (VO-Command-Shift-Right Bracket) TurnOver Command Shift Up arrow: Raises the speech setting (VO-Command-Shift-Up)

Speech

Key: What it does TurnOver Control Down arrow: Speaks slower TurnOver Control Up arrow: Speaks faster

System

Key: What it does TurnOver F12: Reports the time. Pressed twice, reports the date TurnOver Shift B: Reports the battery level

Menus

Key: What it does Control F2: Opens the application's menus

Object navigation

Key: What it does TurnOver Shift Backspace: Move focus here; moves the keyboard focus to the item object navigation is on

Text review

Key: What it does TurnOver Delete: Reports where the caret is: the page and line where the application knows them TurnOver F: Finds text: type it, then Return; the match is where you are left (VO-F; NVDA+Control+F) TurnOver G: Finds the next match of the last search (VO-G; NVDA+F3) TurnOver Period: Reports the current character. Pressed twice, says its name TurnOver Control F: Finds text: type it, then Return; the match is where you are left (VO-F; NVDA+Control+F) TurnOver Control Period: Reports the current word. Pressed twice, spells it TurnOver Control S: Reports the current sentence TurnOver Shift G: Finds the previous match of the last search (VO-Shift-G; NVDA+Shift+F3) TurnOver Shift P: Reports the current paragraph TurnOver Shift Period: Reports the current line. Pressed twice, spells it

In the apps

Keys an app's own support adds at the app level, in that app only; the keys above work there too. Keys that belong to a document inside an app (Word's headings, comments and tables, a web page's quick keys) are in The apps and Reading and say all.

App Store

Key: What it does A: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter B: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Backspace: Cancels the app's download C: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Command F: Goes to the search field D: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Delete: Cancels the app's download Down arrow: Next item E: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter End: Last item Enter: Opens the app's page, or presses the button Escape: Goes back a page F: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter G: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter H: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Home: First item I: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter J: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter K: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter L: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Left arrow: Previous shelf of the page M: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter N: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Numpad enter: Opens the app's page, or presses the button O: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter P: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Q: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter R: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Right arrow: Next shelf of the page S: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Shift Tab: Previous area Space: The app's button: Open, Get, Update or Re-download; a price needs a second press; while downloading, how far it has got T: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Tab: Next area: sidebar, page U: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Up arrow: Previous item V: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter W: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter X: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Y: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Z: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter

Calculator

Key: What it does Enter: Equals, then the answer Escape: Clear Numpad enter: Equals, then the answer

Claude

Key: What it does TurnOver Shift R: Reads Claude's latest reply

Mail

Key: What it does Command Shift N: Checks for new mail and says so Command Shift U: Marks the message read or unread, and says which

Maps

Key: What it does Command F: Search Maps; typing goes into the search field

Music

Key: What it does A: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter B: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter C: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter D: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Down arrow: Next item E: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter End: Last item Enter: Plays the item when it can be played, otherwise opens it; in the sidebar, goes to that section Escape: Goes back a page F: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter G: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter H: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Home: First item I: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter J: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter K: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter L: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Left arrow: Previous shelf of the page M: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter N: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Numpad enter: Plays the item when it can be played, otherwise opens it; in the sidebar, goes to that section O: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter P: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Q: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter R: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Right arrow: Next shelf of the page S: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Shift Enter: Opens the item's page (an episode's details) instead of playing it Shift Tab: Previous area Space: Plays the item, or plays and pauses T: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Tab: Next area: sidebar, page, player U: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Up arrow: Previous item V: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter W: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter X: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Y: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Z: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter

Podcasts

Safari

Key: What it does Command G: Finds the next or previous match and reads it Command Left bracket: Goes back or forward a page Command R: Reloads the page and says so Command Right bracket: Goes back or forward a page Command Shift G: Finds the next or previous match and reads it

Nvda keys: every key

This page is made from TurnOver's own command tables (`turnover-coretest --keys-reference`, 20 Oct 2026), so it matches the build it came with. Don't edit it by hand.

The NVDA keys style (the Windows style): NVDA's own keys, doing what they do in NVDA. TurnOver in a key means the NVDA key: Caps Lock, or Control and Option together. NVDA's Alt is the Mac's Command key, by position. Keyboard help (the TurnOver menu, Keys) says what any key does without doing it; Command Control Comma, then Slash, lists the keys that work where you are.

Switch styles with Command Control Comma, then K. TurnOver's own commands behind Command Control Comma are the same in every style: see The TurnOver layer.

TurnOver

Key: What it does Option Command Escape: Force quit an application; lists the running applications to force quit one, with a confirmation (the Mac's Force Quit window, spoken)

NVDA keys

Key: What it does TurnOver 6: Turns the review cursor following the caret on or off (NVDA+6) TurnOver 7: Turns the review cursor following the focus on or off (NVDA+7) TurnOver B: Reads everything in the window in front (NVDA+B) TurnOver C: Reports the text on the clipboard (NVDA+C) TurnOver End: Moves the review cursor to the end of the line (NVDA+End) TurnOver F1: Open the log; writes the navigator object's details to the log and opens the log (NVDA+F1) TurnOver F10: Selects from the marked start to the review cursor; twice, copies it (NVDA+F10) TurnOver F2: The next key goes to the application untouched (NVDA+F2) TurnOver F5: Rebuilds the page's browse mode view (NVDA+F5) TurnOver F9: Marks the review cursor as the start of text to copy (NVDA+F9) TurnOver Home: Moves the review cursor to the start of the line (NVDA+Home) TurnOver K: Reports where the link goes (NVDA+K) TurnOver Period: Reports the character at the review cursor; twice, spells it (NVDA+Period) TurnOver V: Screen layout on or off in browse mode: things side by side on one line (NVDA+V) TurnOver X: Repeats the last thing spoken (NVDA+X) TurnOver Command End: Moves the review cursor to the end of the selection (NVDA+Alt+End) TurnOver Command Home: Moves the review cursor to the start of the selection (NVDA+Alt+Home) TurnOver Command J: Braille auto scroll slower (NVDA+Alt+J) TurnOver Command K: Braille auto scroll on or off (NVDA+Alt+K) TurnOver Command L: Braille auto scroll faster (NVDA+Alt+L) TurnOver Command T: Braille mode; switches braille between following the cursors and showing speech (NVDA+Alt+T) TurnOver Control A: Opens TurnOver's Braille (NVDA+Control+A: Select Braille Display settings) TurnOver Control B: Opens TurnOver's Web pages (NVDA+Control+B: Browse Mode settings) TurnOver Control C: Saves the settings (NVDA+Control+C) TurnOver Control D: Opens TurnOver's Documents (NVDA+Control+D: Document Formatting settings) TurnOver Control End: Moves the review cursor to the bottom line (NVDA+Control+End) TurnOver Control F1: Application and module; reports the application module and the application's name and version (NVDA+Control+F1) TurnOver Control F3: Reloads the plugins (NVDA+Control+F3) TurnOver Control G: Opens TurnOver's Settings (NVDA+Control+G: General settings) TurnOver Control Home: Moves the review cursor to the top line (NVDA+Control+Home) TurnOver Control K: Opens TurnOver's Keyboard (NVDA+Control+K: Keyboard settings) TurnOver Control M: Opens TurnOver's Settings (NVDA+Control+M: Mouse settings) TurnOver Control O: Opens TurnOver's Item details (NVDA+Control+O: Object Presentation settings) TurnOver Control P: Configuration profiles: sets of speech, verbosity, web and braille settings, by hand or for an app (NVDA+Control+P) TurnOver Control Period: Reports the word at the review cursor; twice, spells it (NVDA+Control+Period) TurnOver Control R: Goes back to the settings last saved (NVDA+Control+R) TurnOver Control S: Opens TurnOver's Speech (NVDA+Control+S: Select Synthesizer settings) TurnOver Control Space: Back to the page; from something inside a page, back to the page in browse mode (NVDA+Control+Space) TurnOver Control T: Cycles what braille follows: automatically, the focus, or the review cursor (NVDA+Control+T) TurnOver Control U: Opens TurnOver's Speech (NVDA+Control+U: Audio settings) TurnOver Control V: Opens TurnOver's Speech (NVDA+Control+V: Speech settings) TurnOver Down arrow: Moves the review cursor to the next line (NVDA+Down Arrow, laptop) TurnOver Left bracket: Clicks the left mouse button where the pointer is (NVDA+Left Bracket) TurnOver Option End: Moves the review cursor to the end of the selection (NVDA+Alt+End) TurnOver Option Home: Moves the review cursor to the start of the selection (NVDA+Alt+Home) TurnOver Option J: Braille auto scroll slower (NVDA+Alt+J) TurnOver Option K: Braille auto scroll on or off (NVDA+Alt+K) TurnOver Option L: Braille auto scroll faster (NVDA+Alt+L) TurnOver Option T: Braille mode; switches braille between following the cursors and showing speech (NVDA+Alt+T) TurnOver Right bracket: Clicks the right mouse button where the pointer is (NVDA+Right Bracket) TurnOver Shift A: Reads from the review cursor to the end of the text (NVDA+Shift+A) TurnOver Shift D: Audio ducking: no ducking, duck when outputting speech, always duck (NVDA+Shift+D) TurnOver Shift Delete: Where the item is on screen; reports where the item object navigation is on sits on the screen (NVDA+Shift+Delete) TurnOver Shift End: Reports the status bar, if the window has one (NVDA+Shift+End) TurnOver Shift F: Reports the formatting at the review cursor (NVDA+Shift+F) TurnOver Shift F9: Moves the review cursor to the marked start (NVDA+Shift+F9) TurnOver Shift M: Pointer to this item; moves the mouse pointer to the item object navigation is on (NVDA+Shift+M) TurnOver Shift N: To the item under the pointer; moves object navigation to the item under the mouse pointer (NVDA+Shift+N) TurnOver Shift Period: Reports the line at the review cursor; twice, spells it (NVDA+Shift+Period) TurnOver Shift Space: Single-letter navigation on or off; turns single-letter navigation on or off for this page, so the page's own letter keys work (NVDA+Shift+Space) TurnOver Shift Z: Sleep mode on or off for this app: TurnOver says nothing and every key goes to the app (NVDA+Shift+Z) TurnOver Up arrow: Moves the review cursor to the previous line (NVDA+Up Arrow, laptop) TurnOver Control Left arrow: Moves the review cursor to the previous word (NVDA+Control+Left Arrow) TurnOver Control Left bracket: Holds the left mouse button down, or lets it go (NVDA+Control+Left Bracket) TurnOver Control Right arrow: Moves the review cursor to the next word (NVDA+Control+Right Arrow) TurnOver Control Right bracket: Holds the right mouse button down, or lets it go (NVDA+Control+Right Bracket) TurnOver Control Shift F1: Marks the log; pressed again, copies the log from the mark (NVDA+Control+Shift+F1) TurnOver Control Shift Period: Reports the shortcut key of the item with focus (NVDA+Control+Shift+Period) TurnOver Shift Left bracket: Moves to the previous item, in and out of groups (NVDA+Shift+Left Bracket) TurnOver Shift Page down: Moves the review cursor to the next page (NVDA+Page Down; laptop: NVDA+Shift+Page Down) TurnOver Shift Page up: Moves the review cursor to the previous page (NVDA+Page Up; laptop: NVDA+Shift+Page Up) TurnOver Shift Right bracket: Moves to the next item, in and out of groups (NVDA+Shift+Right Bracket) TurnOver Control Shift Down arrow: Lowers the speech setting (NVDA+Shift+Control+Down Arrow) TurnOver Control Shift Left arrow: Previous speech setting (NVDA+Shift+Control+Left Arrow) TurnOver Control Shift Page down: Lowers the speech setting in a large step (NVDA+Shift+Control+Page Down) TurnOver Control Shift Page up: Raises the speech setting in a large step (NVDA+Shift+Control+Page Up) TurnOver Control Shift Right arrow: Next speech setting: voice, rate, volume, punctuation (NVDA+Shift+Control+Right Arrow) TurnOver Control Shift Up arrow: Raises the speech setting (NVDA+Shift+Control+Up Arrow)

Speech

Key: What it does TurnOver 2: Cycles speaking of typed characters: off, only in edit controls, always TurnOver 3: Cycles speaking of typed words: off, only in edit controls, always TurnOver 4: Turns speaking of command keys on or off TurnOver 5: Turns reporting of dynamic content changes on or off TurnOver P: Cycles the punctuation and symbol level TurnOver S: Cycles speech modes: talk, beeps, off, on demand (NVDA+S) TurnOver Control Down arrow: Speaks slower TurnOver Control Up arrow: Speaks faster

System

Key: What it does TurnOver 1: Turns input help on or off: every key says what it does TurnOver F12: Reports the time. Pressed twice, reports the date TurnOver N: Opens the TurnOver menu: preferences, help, quit TurnOver Q: Quits TurnOver TurnOver R: Recognises the text in the window from the screen (OCR), to read with the arrows and click with Return. Pressed again in the result, recognises again TurnOver Slash: Shortcuts list; lists the shortcuts that work here, the application's own first; Enter runs one TurnOver T: Reports the title of the current window. Pressed twice, spells it TurnOver Tab: Reports the object with focus TurnOver Shift B: Reports the battery level

Browse mode

Key: What it does TurnOver Space: Switches between browse mode and focus mode in a document

Menus

Key: What it does Control F2: Opens the application's menus

Object navigation

Key: What it does TurnOver Backspace: Brings object navigation back to the focus TurnOver Enter: Activates the item object navigation is on: presses it, or puts the focus in it for typing TurnOver Left arrow: Moves to the previous item in the window TurnOver Right arrow: Next item in the window; moves to the next item in the window, whether or not it can take the focus TurnOver Shift Backspace: Move focus here; moves the keyboard focus to the item object navigation is on TurnOver Shift O: Reports the item object navigation is on TurnOver Shift Down arrow: Moves in, to the first item inside this one TurnOver Shift Left arrow: Moves to the previous item in the window TurnOver Shift Right arrow: Next item in the window; moves to the next item in the window, whether or not it can take the focus TurnOver Shift Up arrow: Moves out, to the item that contains this one

Text review

Key: What it does TurnOver A: Reads from the caret to the end of the text TurnOver Delete: Reports where the caret is: the page and line where the application knows them TurnOver F: Reports the formatting at the caret (NVDA+F) TurnOver F3: Finds the next match of the last search (VO-G; NVDA+F3) TurnOver G: Finds the next match of the last search (VO-G; NVDA+F3) TurnOver L: Reports the current line. Pressed twice, spells it TurnOver W: Reports the current word. Pressed twice, spells it TurnOver Control F: Finds text: type it, then Return; the match is where you are left (VO-F; NVDA+Control+F) TurnOver Shift F3: Finds the previous match of the last search (VO-Shift-G; NVDA+Shift+F3) TurnOver Shift G: Finds the previous match of the last search (VO-Shift-G; NVDA+Shift+F3) TurnOver Shift L: Reports where the caret is: the page and line where the application knows them TurnOver Shift P: Reports the current paragraph TurnOver Shift S: Reports the selected text

Windows keys

Key: What it does F10: Opens the application's menus; closes them if open (Windows: Alt or F10). Also Command on its own Command F4: Quits the application (Windows: Alt+F4) Control F4: Closes the window or tab (Windows: Control+F4) Option B: Status menus; lists the status menus at the right of the menu bar, TurnOver's own item last (Windows: Windows+B) Option Tab: Application chooser; lists every application with a window, system alerts too, to switch to (Windows: Windows+Tab, Task View) Shift F10: Opens the context menu, as Control+Return does (Windows: the Applications key, Shift+F10). Also right Option on its own Control Shift Escape: Force quit, as Task Manager's key (Windows: Control+Shift+Escape)

In the apps

App Store

Calculator

Key: What it does Enter: Equals, then the answer Escape: Clear Numpad enter: Equals, then the answer

Claude

Key: What it does TurnOver Shift R: Reads Claude's latest reply

Excel

Key: What it does TurnOver Command C: Reports the cell's note; twice, shows it to read line by line (NVDA+Alt+C) TurnOver F7: Elements list; lists the workbook's sheets and the cells with notes; Enter goes there (NVDA+F7) TurnOver Option C: Reports the cell's note; twice, shows it to read line by line (NVDA+Alt+C) TurnOver Space: Cell review; reads the cells around with the arrows, protected ones too; Escape stops (NVDA+Space in Excel)

Finder

Key: What it does Enter: Opens the selected item, as in Windows Explorer (Windows style; on a Mac, Command Down) F2: Renames the selected item: F2, as in Windows Explorer, or Shift Return (Windows style) Numpad enter: Opens the selected item, as in Windows Explorer (Windows style; on a Mac, Command Down) Shift Enter: Renames the selected item: F2, as in Windows Explorer, or Shift Return (Windows style)

Mail

Key: What it does Command Shift N: Checks for new mail and says so Command Shift U: Marks the message read or unread, and says which

Maps

Key: What it does Command F: Search Maps; typing goes into the search field

Music

Key: What it does A: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter B: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter C: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter D: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Down arrow: Next item E: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter End: Last item Enter: Plays the item when it can be played, otherwise opens it; in the sidebar, goes to that section Escape: Goes back a page F: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter G: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter H: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Home: First item I: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter J: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter K: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter L: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Left arrow: Previous shelf of the page M: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter N: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Numpad enter: Plays the item when it can be played, otherwise opens it; in the sidebar, goes to that section O: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter P: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Q: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter R: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Right arrow: Next shelf of the page S: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Shift Enter: Opens the item's page (an episode's details) instead of playing it Shift Tab: Previous area Space: Plays the item, or plays and pauses T: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Tab: Next area: sidebar, page, player TurnOver Shift N: Says what is playing U: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Up arrow: Previous item V: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter W: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter X: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Y: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Z: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter

Podcasts

Key: What it does A: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter B: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter C: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter D: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Down arrow: Next item E: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter End: Last item Enter: Plays the item when it can be played, otherwise opens it; in the sidebar, goes to that section Escape: Goes back a page F: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter G: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter H: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Home: First item I: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter J: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter K: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter L: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Left arrow: Previous shelf of the page M: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter N: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Numpad enter: Plays the item when it can be played, otherwise opens it; in the sidebar, goes to that section O: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter P: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Q: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter R: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Right arrow: Next shelf of the page S: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Shift Enter: Opens the item's page (an episode's details) instead of playing it Shift Tab: Previous area Space: Plays the item, or plays and pauses T: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Tab: Next area: sidebar, page, player TurnOver Shift N: Says what is playing U: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Up arrow: Previous item V: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter W: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter X: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Y: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Z: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter

Safari

Key: What it does A: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter B: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter C: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter D: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Down arrow: Next item E: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter End: Last item Enter: Plays the item when it can be played, otherwise opens it; in the sidebar, goes to that section Escape: Goes back a page F: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter G: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter H: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Home: First item I: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter J: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter K: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter L: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Left arrow: Previous shelf of the page M: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter N: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Numpad enter: Plays the item when it can be played, otherwise opens it; in the sidebar, goes to that section O: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter P: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Q: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter R: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Right arrow: Next shelf of the page S: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Shift Enter: Opens the item's page (an episode's details) instead of playing it Shift Tab: Previous area Space: Plays the item, or plays and pauses T: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Tab: Next area: sidebar, page, player TurnOver Shift N: Says what is playing U: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Up arrow: Previous item V: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter W: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter X: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Y: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter Z: Jumps to the next item starting with the letter

Jaws keys: every key

This page is made from TurnOver's own command tables (`turnover-coretest --keys-reference`, 20 Oct 2026), so it matches the build it came with. Don't edit it by hand.

The JAWS keys style: JAWS's laptop layout. TurnOver in a key means the JAWS key: Caps Lock, or Control and Option together. Only the keys that differ from NVDA's are JAWS's own; every other key is NVDA's, so the NVDA keys page lists the rest. Keyboard help (the TurnOver menu, Keys) says what any key does without doing it; Command Control Comma, then Slash, lists the keys that work where you are.

Switch styles with Command Control Comma, then K. TurnOver's own commands behind Command Control Comma are the same in every style: see The TurnOver layer.

JAWS keys

Key: What it does TurnOver 3: The next key goes to the application untouched (NVDA+F2) TurnOver 6: Opens TurnOver's settings in its menu (JAWS: Insert+F2, Insert+6) TurnOver 8: Clicks the left mouse button where the pointer is (NVDA+Left Bracket) TurnOver 9: Clicks the right mouse button where the pointer is (NVDA+Right Bracket) TurnOver Backslash: Opens or closes the disclosure triangle (VO-Backslash) TurnOver Comma: Reports the current character. Twice, its name; three times, its code (JAWS: Insert+Numpad 5) TurnOver Escape: Rebuilds the page's browse mode view (NVDA+F5) TurnOver F1: Reads the item's help tag (VO-Shift-H) TurnOver F10: Application chooser; lists every application with a window, system alerts too, to switch to (Windows: Windows+Tab, Task View) TurnOver F11: Status menus; lists the status menus at the right of the menu bar, TurnOver's own item last (Windows: Windows+B) TurnOver F2: Opens TurnOver's settings in its menu (JAWS: Insert+F2, Insert+6) TurnOver F4: Quits TurnOver TurnOver F5: Rebuilds the page's browse mode view (NVDA+F5) TurnOver F9: Marks the review cursor as the start of text to copy (NVDA+F9) TurnOver H: Opens TurnOver's Speech (NVDA+Control+S: Select Synthesizer settings) TurnOver I: Reports the current line. Pressed twice, spells it TurnOver J: Moves the review cursor to the previous word (NVDA+Control+Left Arrow) TurnOver K: Reports the word at the review cursor; twice, spells it (NVDA+Control+Period) TurnOver L: Moves the review cursor to the next word (NVDA+Control+Right Arrow) TurnOver M: Moves to the previous item in the window TurnOver N: Reads the next sentence (VO-Command-Page Down) TurnOver O: Moves the review cursor to the next line (NVDA+Down Arrow, laptop) TurnOver P: To the item under the pointer; moves object navigation to the item under the mouse pointer (NVDA+Shift+N) TurnOver Period: Next item in the window; moves to the next item in the window, whether or not it can take the focus TurnOver Q: Application and module; reports the application module and the application's name and version (NVDA+Control+F1) TurnOver S: Turns reporting of dynamic content changes on or off TurnOver Semicolon: Brings object navigation back to the focus TurnOver U: Moves the review cursor to the previous line (NVDA+Up Arrow, laptop) TurnOver Y: Reads the previous sentence (VO-Command-Page Up) TurnOver Z: Switches between browse mode and focus mode in a document TurnOver Control F1: Open the log; writes the navigator object's details to the log and opens the log (NVDA+F1) TurnOver Control F12: Reports the time with seconds. Pressed twice, the week of the year (JAWS: Control+Insert+F12) TurnOver Control F7: Reports where the link goes (NVDA+K) TurnOver Control H: Lists what TurnOver said lately, newest first; Return says one again (JAWS: Insert+Space, H) TurnOver Control I: Reports the current paragraph TurnOver Control O: Reads the next paragraph (VO-Shift-Page Down) TurnOver Control U: Reads the previous paragraph (VO-Shift-Page Up) TurnOver Control V: Reports the name and version of the app in front (JAWS: Insert+Control+V) TurnOver Left bracket: Pointer to this item; moves the mouse pointer to the item object navigation is on (NVDA+Shift+M) TurnOver Option V: Braille mode; switches braille between following the cursors and showing speech (NVDA+Alt+T) TurnOver Shift A: Reports the selected text. Pressed twice, spells it (JAWS: Insert+Shift+Down) TurnOver Shift Comma: Reports the shortcut key of the item with focus (NVDA+Control+Shift+Period) TurnOver Shift F1: The item's description; in text, the word and character; twice, how many lines (VO-F3, VO-F3-F3) TurnOver Shift J: Reads the line from its start to the cursor. Pressed twice, spells it (JAWS: Insert+Home) TurnOver Shift L: Reads the line from the cursor to its end. Pressed twice, spells it (JAWS: Insert+Page Up) TurnOver Shift N: Reports the status bar, if the window has one (NVDA+Shift+End) TurnOver Shift Y: Reports the title of the current window. Pressed twice, spells it TurnOver Control Shift H: Shortcuts list; lists the shortcuts that work here, the application's own first; Enter runs one TurnOver Control Shift J: Opens the TurnOver menu: preferences, help, quit TurnOver Option Shift C: In a table, the column header (twice, the column from here down); elsewhere the character (twice, phonetically) (VO-C, VO-C-C) TurnOver Option Shift R: Reads the row header; twice, the row from here to its end (VO-R, VO-R-R) TurnOver Shift Page down: Moves the review cursor to the next page (NVDA+Page Down; laptop: NVDA+Shift+Page Down) TurnOver Shift Page up: Moves the review cursor to the previous page (NVDA+Page Up; laptop: NVDA+Shift+Page Up)

TurnOver

Key: What it does Option Command Escape: Force quit an application; lists the running applications to force quit one, with a confirmation (the Mac's Force Quit window, spoken)

NVDA keys

Key: What it does TurnOver 7: Turns the review cursor following the focus on or off (NVDA+7) TurnOver B: Reads everything in the window in front (NVDA+B) TurnOver C: Reports the text on the clipboard (NVDA+C) TurnOver End: Moves the review cursor to the end of the line (NVDA+End) TurnOver Home: Moves the review cursor to the start of the line (NVDA+Home) TurnOver V: Screen layout on or off in browse mode: things side by side on one line (NVDA+V) TurnOver X: Repeats the last thing spoken (NVDA+X) TurnOver Command End: Moves the review cursor to the end of the selection (NVDA+Alt+End) TurnOver Command Home: Moves the review cursor to the start of the selection (NVDA+Alt+Home) TurnOver Command J: Braille auto scroll slower (NVDA+Alt+J) TurnOver Command K: Braille auto scroll on or off (NVDA+Alt+K) TurnOver Command L: Braille auto scroll faster (NVDA+Alt+L) TurnOver Command T: Braille mode; switches braille between following the cursors and showing speech (NVDA+Alt+T) TurnOver Control A: Opens TurnOver's Braille (NVDA+Control+A: Select Braille Display settings) TurnOver Control B: Opens TurnOver's Web pages (NVDA+Control+B: Browse Mode settings) TurnOver Control C: Saves the settings (NVDA+Control+C) TurnOver Control D: Opens TurnOver's Documents (NVDA+Control+D: Document Formatting settings) TurnOver Control End: Moves the review cursor to the bottom line (NVDA+Control+End) TurnOver Control F3: Reloads the plugins (NVDA+Control+F3) TurnOver Control G: Opens TurnOver's Settings (NVDA+Control+G: General settings) TurnOver Control Home: Moves the review cursor to the top line (NVDA+Control+Home) TurnOver Control K: Opens TurnOver's Keyboard (NVDA+Control+K: Keyboard settings) TurnOver Control M: Opens TurnOver's Settings (NVDA+Control+M: Mouse settings) TurnOver Control P: Configuration profiles: sets of speech, verbosity, web and braille settings, by hand or for an app (NVDA+Control+P) TurnOver Control Period: Reports the word at the review cursor; twice, spells it (NVDA+Control+Period) TurnOver Control R: Goes back to the settings last saved (NVDA+Control+R) TurnOver Control S: Opens TurnOver's Speech (NVDA+Control+S: Select Synthesizer settings) TurnOver Control Space: Back to the page; from something inside a page, back to the page in browse mode (NVDA+Control+Space) TurnOver Control T: Cycles what braille follows: automatically, the focus, or the review cursor (NVDA+Control+T) TurnOver Down arrow: Moves the review cursor to the next line (NVDA+Down Arrow, laptop) TurnOver Option End: Moves the review cursor to the end of the selection (NVDA+Alt+End) TurnOver Option Home: Moves the review cursor to the start of the selection (NVDA+Alt+Home) TurnOver Option J: Braille auto scroll slower (NVDA+Alt+J) TurnOver Option K: Braille auto scroll on or off (NVDA+Alt+K) TurnOver Option L: Braille auto scroll faster (NVDA+Alt+L) TurnOver Option T: Braille mode; switches braille between following the cursors and showing speech (NVDA+Alt+T) TurnOver Right bracket: Clicks the right mouse button where the pointer is (NVDA+Right Bracket) TurnOver Shift D: Audio ducking: no ducking, duck when outputting speech, always duck (NVDA+Shift+D) TurnOver Shift Delete: Where the item is on screen; reports where the item object navigation is on sits on the screen (NVDA+Shift+Delete) TurnOver Shift End: Reports the status bar, if the window has one (NVDA+Shift+End) TurnOver Shift F: Reports the formatting at the review cursor (NVDA+Shift+F) TurnOver Shift F9: Moves the review cursor to the marked start (NVDA+Shift+F9) TurnOver Shift M: Pointer to this item; moves the mouse pointer to the item object navigation is on (NVDA+Shift+M) TurnOver Shift Period: Reports the line at the review cursor; twice, spells it (NVDA+Shift+Period) TurnOver Shift Space: Single-letter navigation on or off; turns single-letter navigation on or off for this page, so the page's own letter keys work (NVDA+Shift+Space) TurnOver Shift Z: Sleep mode on or off for this app: TurnOver says nothing and every key goes to the app (NVDA+Shift+Z) TurnOver Up arrow: Moves the review cursor to the previous line (NVDA+Up Arrow, laptop) TurnOver Control Left arrow: Moves the review cursor to the previous word (NVDA+Control+Left Arrow) TurnOver Control Left bracket: Holds the left mouse button down, or lets it go (NVDA+Control+Left Bracket) TurnOver Control Right arrow: Moves the review cursor to the next word (NVDA+Control+Right Arrow) TurnOver Control Right bracket: Holds the right mouse button down, or lets it go (NVDA+Control+Right Bracket) TurnOver Control Shift F1: Marks the log; pressed again, copies the log from the mark (NVDA+Control+Shift+F1) TurnOver Control Shift Period: Reports the shortcut key of the item with focus (NVDA+Control+Shift+Period) TurnOver Shift Left bracket: Moves to the previous item, in and out of groups (NVDA+Shift+Left Bracket) TurnOver Shift Right bracket: Moves to the next item, in and out of groups (NVDA+Shift+Right Bracket) TurnOver Control Shift Down arrow: Lowers the speech setting (NVDA+Shift+Control+Down Arrow) TurnOver Control Shift Left arrow: Previous speech setting (NVDA+Shift+Control+Left Arrow) TurnOver Control Shift Page down: Lowers the speech setting in a large step (NVDA+Shift+Control+Page Down) TurnOver Control Shift Page up: Raises the speech setting in a large step (NVDA+Shift+Control+Page Up) TurnOver Control Shift Right arrow: Next speech setting: voice, rate, volume, punctuation (NVDA+Shift+Control+Right Arrow) TurnOver Control Shift Up arrow: Raises the speech setting (NVDA+Shift+Control+Up Arrow)

Speech

Key: What it does TurnOver 2: Cycles speaking of typed characters: off, only in edit controls, always TurnOver 4: Turns speaking of command keys on or off TurnOver 5: Turns reporting of dynamic content changes on or off TurnOver Control Down arrow: Speaks slower TurnOver Control Up arrow: Speaks faster

System

Key: What it does TurnOver 1: Turns input help on or off: every key says what it does TurnOver F12: Reports the time. Pressed twice, reports the date TurnOver R: Recognises the text in the window from the screen (OCR), to read with the arrows and click with Return. Pressed again in the result, recognises again TurnOver Slash: Shortcuts list; lists the shortcuts that work here, the application's own first; Enter runs one TurnOver T: Reports the title of the current window. Pressed twice, spells it TurnOver Tab: Reports the object with focus TurnOver Shift B: Reports the battery level

Browse mode

Key: What it does TurnOver Space: Switches between browse mode and focus mode in a document

Menus

Key: What it does Control F2: Opens the application's menus

Object navigation

Text review

Key: What it does TurnOver A: Reads from the caret to the end of the text TurnOver Delete: Reports where the caret is: the page and line where the application knows them TurnOver F: Reports the formatting at the caret (NVDA+F) TurnOver F3: Finds the next match of the last search (VO-G; NVDA+F3) TurnOver G: Finds the next match of the last search (VO-G; NVDA+F3) TurnOver W: Reports the current word. Pressed twice, spells it TurnOver Control F: Finds text: type it, then Return; the match is where you are left (VO-F; NVDA+Control+F) TurnOver Shift F3: Finds the previous match of the last search (VO-Shift-G; NVDA+Shift+F3) TurnOver Shift G: Finds the previous match of the last search (VO-Shift-G; NVDA+Shift+F3) TurnOver Shift P: Reports the current paragraph TurnOver Shift S: Reports the selected text

Windows keys

During say all

These keys apply only while say all is reading.

Key: What it does Left arrow: During say all: back a sentence, and carries on reading (JAWS: Left Arrow) Page down: During say all: slower, for this say all only (JAWS: Page Down) Page up: During say all: faster, for this say all only (JAWS: Page Up) Right arrow: During say all: on a sentence, and carries on reading (JAWS: Right Arrow)

In the apps

App Store

Calculator

Key: What it does Enter: Equals, then the answer Escape: Clear Numpad enter: Equals, then the answer

Claude

Key: What it does TurnOver Shift R: Reads Claude's latest reply

Excel

Finder

Mail

Key: What it does Command Shift N: Checks for new mail and says so Command Shift U: Marks the message read or unread, and says which

Maps

Key: What it does Command F: Search Maps; typing goes into the search field

Music

Podcasts

Safari

Plugins

A plugin teaches TurnOver an app: what to call its controls, which keys do what, what to read when something changes, and what to keep quiet. Plugins are written as data, not code: a folder with a manifest and a few JSON files. That means no programming, nothing a plugin can do behind your back, and anyone can read one before installing it.

Using one

- The plugin library (the TurnOver menu, Tools, Plugins, Plugin library) lists the plugins others have made. Each one is checked and signed before it appears, and says what it does before you install it. - Install from a folder or the clipboard, in the same menu, for one someone sent you. - Reload plugins after editing one.

Making one

Switch to the app, then the TurnOver menu, Tools, Plugins.
Choose Write a plugin for this app yourself: TurnOver makes a starter folder with the guide, a snapshot of the app's window and its menus, so you can see what the app calls things.
Or choose Make a plugin with an AI: TurnOver gives it the window's labels, text and menus and its own log, with your typing and speech left out, and the AI writes the first draft. You read and change it.
Edit the files, then Install my plugin from its folder. Reload after each change.

The format is in the plugin guide: what a manifest holds, how a rule names a control, how a key is given a command, and the checker that finds mistakes.

Sharing one

Plugins are shared through the plugins repository on GitHub: send yours as a pull request, where everyone can read it. The checker runs on it, it is reviewed, and then the library's signed list carries it to everyone. The plugins repository is at github.com/TurnOver-For-Mac/turnover-plugins.

What a plugin can't do

Run code, reach the internet, read anything in an app it doesn't name, or change TurnOver's settings. Those limits are the point: a screen reader sees everything on your screen, and a plugin shouldn't widen that.

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