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.
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.
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.
On a Mac keyboard
every app's settings, Command Period cancels), the reader's command sits on a second key, listed on its page.
- 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
stays Control.
- Windows' Control is often the Mac's Command for app shortcuts: copy, find, new tab. In screen reader chords it
is set to use them as standard function keys.
- Home, End, Page Up and Page Down are Fn with the arrows on a laptop keyboard. F1 to F12 need Fn unless the Mac
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.