Keyboard Shortcuts

All shortcuts are sourced from ShortcutManager.InitializeDefaultProfile(). Shortcuts not listed here are not assigned by default. Rebind any command under Settings (F12) → Keyboard (rebinds save immediately), or edit the shortcuts profile saved at %LOCALAPPDATA%\AccessibleTrader\shortcuts.json (MAUI heads) or ~/.local/share/AccessibleTrader/shortcuts.json (Linux WebHost).

Host-specific note: the drawing chords are Alt+Shift+letter on every head

Since 2026-09-05 the drawing tools and the detailed point summary are bound to Alt+Shift+letter in the DEFAULT profile, on the desktop apps and the browser alike. They were Ctrl+Shift+letter on the desktop before that, with the Linux WebHost rewriting them to Alt+Shift at startup because Firefox and most browsers reserve several Ctrl+Shift+letter chords at the browser-chrome level (reopen closed tab, history, private window, console) and they are NOT cancellable from page-level JavaScript even with preventDefault. That left the one place the keyboard differed between heads, and it was removed by moving the default rather than by explaining the difference.

A shortcuts.json saved before the change still carries the Ctrl+Shift chords and keeps working as saved on the desktop; the WebHost still rewrites any such legacy Ctrl+Shift+letter binding to Alt+Shift+letter in memory, never on disk. The Help dialog (F1) reads the live in-memory profile, so each host self-documents its current bindings. Chords with three modifiers (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N and the rest) are unaffected. One platform note: Windows switches keyboard layout on a bare Alt+Shift press when two layouts are installed; the switch fires on release without a third key, so Alt+Shift+T does not trigger it, but that is the one thing to verify on a Windows box with two layouts.

Some browser-reserved chords are single-Ctrl chrome chords the browser handles before any page listener runs, so even capture-phase preventDefault can't stop them. On the WebHost these reserved bindings are removed (so the Help dialog never advertises a chord the browser eats) and the in-app action is rebound to a web-safe equivalent:

• Ctrl+T (AddTab) — opens a browser tab. On the web use Alt+Shift+N (a chord browsers leave alone) or the tab bar's always-visible + button. (Ctrl+T still works on the desktop heads.)
• Ctrl+W (CloseTab) — closes the browser tab. Use a tab's × button, or focus the tab bar (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T) and press Delete.
• Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab (SwitchTabNext/Prev) — switch browser tabs. On the web, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T (FocusTabBar) to move keyboard focus onto the workspace tab switcher bar, then use the arrow keys / Home / End / the number row (1–9 jump to that tab); Delete closes the active tab and Insert / + opens a new one.
• Ctrl+PageUp / Ctrl+PageDown — cycle browser tabs, and nothing is bound to them on any head. Pane navigation is Alt+PageUp / Alt+PageDown everywhere, so the desktop and the browser agree; a reserved chord is left unbound rather than reassigned.

The workspace tab switcher bar (a row of tabs just above the chart) is always visible — even with a single tab open — so the + new-tab button is always reachable by mouse, and the bar is always focusable via Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T.

Time Navigation (X Axis)

Pane and Component Navigation (Y Axis and Series)

All five traversal keys clamp at the ends with a boundary earcon; none of them wrap. A silent jump from the bottom of the chart back to the top is the one outcome a user who cannot see the move has no way to detect.

Context-Aware Jump Navigation (Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right)

Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right perform a context-sensitive jump whose target depends on what component is currently focused. The behavior is determined by CommandDispatcher.HandleTrendlineCrossJump.

When no further event exists in the scan direction, speech announces: "No more [component name] signals in this direction." (This was silent until 2026-08-03 — boundary feedback carried the message but only played an earcon.)

On a pane with more than one reference line, the jump uses the line the focused component answers to. A component may declare which lines it subscribes to, and since 2026-09-19 the classifier, the threshold scan and the neutral lookup all honour that declaration and read the focused component's own data. Aroon is the case that proved it: Up and Down swing about a Midpoint at 50 while the Oscillator swings about zero, and with the Oscillator focused the key used to land where AroonUp crossed 50 and announce it as the Oscillator's Midpoint cross. A component that declares no list — or declares an empty one, as the marker and state components do to silence the earcon — keeps every line, because a jump key with nothing to aim at is a worse answer than a jump to the pane's own line.

Chart Formation Navigation (, and .)

Bare comma and period step between chart formations — double tops, head and shoulders, triangles, wedges, flags. They are unmodified keys because this is something you press repeatedly while reading a chart, and they are chart-scoped, so they remain typable everywhere else.

| ; | Choose which overlapping formation leads the readout (press again for the next) | | Shift+; | Stop choosing; go back to largest-first |

Both pin keys reach the terminal from the browser as of 2.11.0. Before that they were bound, documented and tested on the .NET side and never arrived: neither was in the browser's trapped-key list, and a browser reports Shift+; as :, which nothing folded back to ;.

They require formation description to be on (Settings → General → Describe chart patterns). With it off they say so rather than moving you across the chart without explaining why — the announcement that would explain the jump is exactly what the setting disables.

Choosing a formation. When several shapes overlap, the terminal leads with the largest live one and counts the rest. Semicolon overrides that with your own choice — the twelve-bar flag inside the eighty-bar triangle may be exactly what your setup is built on, and the terminal has no business insisting otherwise. The choice sticks per chart until you clear it, and nothing is hidden either way: the others are still counted and Alt+Shift+D still reads them all.

While a formation is chosen, , and . walk that formation's edges only — its start and its ending, and nothing else. Choosing a shape and then being taken to a different one's break bar was the old behaviour and it made the choice feel as though it had not registered: you would hear "leading with ascending triangle" and, one keypress later, "double bottom confirmed here." Both sentences were true; the key had simply travelled somewhere you had not asked to go. When you run out of edges the terminal names the pin and reminds you that Shift+; releases it.

The stops are edges, not formations. Each formation contributes two: the bar its structure first became knowable, and the bar its story ended — the break, or the point it aged out unconfirmed. Landing on those two bars walks you through the same narrative arrow-key navigation gives you, so the jump keys and the arrow keys always agree about what is worth saying.

There is no equivalent for candle patterns, deliberately. Dojis, spinning tops and small-bodied bars occur on a large share of every chart, so "jump to the next candle pattern" would usually mean "move one bar right". Candle patterns are read on the bar you are standing on, and since 2026-09-04 that includes the multi-bar ones: the arrow keys, the detail key, the bar close and the live forming bar all run the same classifier over the same trailing window, so the four cannot name the same bar differently.

Nesting. A formation inside a larger one says so — "…Inside a larger double bottom that began 12 March." The container's start date is given rather than just its name, because that is what lets you go and find it.

Quick Trade (from the chart, no dashboard)

Size a position from your risk budget and place it without leaving the chart.

The stop comes before the size, and that is not a formality. A risk percentage is a cash budget; it becomes a quantity only once the distance to your stop is known, because that distance is what one unit can lose. So arming a percentage puts the system in "stop needed" and it refuses to place until you have set one. What you get in return is the arithmetic a sighted trader does in a position-size calculator — equity, risk, stop distance, quantity — spoken in one sentence at the moment of the decision:

"Armed 1 percent. $1,000.00 at risk, stop 42,100, long 0.625 units, entry 43,700."

Direction is inferred, not asked. A stop below the current price can only be protecting a long; above it, a short.

You are told you are armed on every bar you move to — "Armed 1 percent, ready." Forgetting is the failure this feature is designed against, so the reminder is short and unconditional. Escape always cancels, and takes precedence over cancelling a half-placed drawing.

The stop is always sent with the entry. The size was derived from the stop distance, so a position placed without it would have a quantity justified by protection that does not exist.

What you hear

Formation narration is opt-in (Settings → General → Describe chart patterns) and is edge-triggered: a formation speaks twice over its whole life, not once per bar.

Three properties are worth knowing, because each is a deliberate choice:

• The edge is named, and it describes the BAR rather than your direction of travel. A formation's first bar says "Start of" whether you arrowed onto it going left or right; its last bar says "End of" either way. If the word changed with direction, the same bar would describe itself differently depending on how you reached it, and no picture of the chart could be built by moving around in it.
• An outcome is stated as what price did, never as a verdict. The word "completed" is never spoken: it could not tell you whether the pattern worked or failed, and it never meant either — only that price closed through a line. So the narration names the side and the level instead.
• Nothing is ever called bullish or bearish. The measured target is spoken because it is arithmetic on numbers already on screen, and it is always framed as the measured target, conditional on if it breaks. It has never been tested here — see ALPHA_LEDGER.md, where every price-derived pattern claim tested so far has come back null.

Bar Replay

Reveals loaded history one bar at a time so you can practise reading a market forward, without hindsight. Live updates are suspended while replay runs and the full series is restored when you stop.

Also at the end of the toolbar's button row as Replay, which shows its own pressed state.

On the WebHost, use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P rather than F11 — browsers own F11 for fullscreen and page-level preventDefault on it is not reliable.

Playback

While playback runs the tones carry price and speech carries three things, composed into one utterance per bar so nothing can cut anything else off:

1. Time. Each time the bars cross a calendar boundary one step coarser than the bar spacing (a new hour on minute bars, a new day on hourly, a new month on daily, a new year on weekly — the finest unit that keeps the announcements about two seconds apart at the current speed) the new period is spoken without interrupting.
2. Signals, from the series you flagged with N and only those — and, when you played one series or one component rather than the whole chart, only the ones inside what you played: a marker signal printing on the bar just reached, introduced by the component that fired it, never by the series — "Triple confluence buy, strong confirmation." At most two per bar, the rarest first. A line crossing one of its own declared levels is discrete in the same way and is spoken too — as the band entered ("strong trend") or "crossed above overbought". Never a running reading, never oscillator zone commentary, and volume profiles say nothing during playback.
3. A formation resolving on that bar, if Describe chart patterns is on, in the same words the arrow keys use.

Items 2 and 3 share the landmark cadence: a second one inside the two-second window is dropped, not queued — at ten bars a second a queue is a backlog about bars the tones have long passed. A landmark is never dropped. All three are governed by Settings → Narration → Narrate during playback (on by default); with it off, playback is tones plus only the start, pause, speed and finish confirmations. Navigation readouts and viewport descriptions stay silent during playback; F2 mutes all of it, and F3 silences the tones while leaving the words — playback as narration.

Speech and Sonification

Volume Controls

Indicator Visibility and Mute

H and M respect the last interaction context. If you last pressed Up/Down (component navigation), they apply to the focused component. If you last pressed Left/Right (bar navigation), they apply to the whole series.

Chart Display Toggles

Alt+F, and why it is an audio key as much as a visual one. By default the price pane sizes itself to hold everything drawn on it — the candles and every visible overlay, so a Bollinger band or a Keltner channel that swings wider than the bars widens the pane instead of running off it. That matters to the ear as well as the eye, because the pane's range is also the pitch range: anything outside the pane is not merely invisible, it is silent.

Press Alt+F and the pane fits the price bars alone ("fitting price only"). Overlays may then run off the top or bottom — and go quiet when they do — but the price line gets the whole pitch range to itself, which is what you want when you are listening for small moves. Press it again to go back. The setting is per tab, it is saved with the workspace, and a new tab inherits it.

Indicator Management

Market Structure

The Market Structure overlay (HH/HL/LH/LL) is off by default: add it from Alt+A, or switch it on for every new chart under Settings → General → Analysis. Delete the series from the Object Tree (Alt+O) to drop it for the session. Navigate to its Structure State component and press Shift+F1 (context summary) for the full structural read: current state, last swing high and low, and where price sits between them.

Analysis

Tabs and Workspaces

The tab switcher bar (a row of tabs just above the chart) is always visible, even with a single tab open, so the + new-tab button is always there. When the bar has focus (via Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T, or by clicking it): ←/→ (or ↑/↓) switch tabs, Home/End jump to the first/last tab, the number row 1–9 jumps to that tab, Insert / + opens a new tab, and Delete closes the active tab. Each tab also has a Close tab button beside it (a real button, so a screen reader's browse mode finds it; it is not a Tab stop, because Delete already answers from the keyboard). It is an ARIA tablist — your screen reader announces the newly selected tab as you move.

Drawing Tools — Sequential Anchoring

All drawing shortcuts use sequential anchoring: there is no separate "mode" and no Enter key. Each anchor is set by pressing the same tool shortcut again at the current cursor bar. The DrawingInteractionManager state machine advances one anchor per press.

1. Navigate to the first bar with the Left/Right arrows.
2. Press the tool shortcut (e.g. Alt+Shift+T) to set anchor 1 at the current bar. Speech announces the price and timestamp and prompts: "Navigate to next point and press the shortcut again."
3. Navigate to the next bar.
4. Press the same shortcut again to set anchor 2. For two-anchor tools this completes the drawing and speech confirms placement.
5. For three-anchor tools (Fibonacci extension, Risk/Reward, Andrews' pitchfork), press the shortcut once more for anchor 3.
6. Press Escape at any time to cancel the in-progress placement.

Single-anchor tools (horizontal line, vertical line, text label, anchored VWAP) complete on the first press.

The default profile also keeps a mouse path (click/drag to place, drag a handle to reposition), but the keyboard re-press flow above is the canonical accessible path. Enter/Return is not used for drawing — the ConfirmCoordinateEntry command is reserved/unused and has no key binding or dispatch handler.

Moving an existing anchor from the keyboard (the nudge)

Focus the drawing with Page Up / Page Down (or from the Object Tree, Alt+O). One of its anchors is selected — the first, until you change it — and these keys move it:

What you hear: a short tick while the anchor is moving (at most five a second, however fast the key repeats), then ONE sentence when you stop — "End: 105.20 at June 15, 09:30. Trend line 2, anchor 2 of 2." — value first, then the drawing and which anchor of how many. A key that cannot act (an anchor at the first bar, a price-only anchor asked to move in time, no drawing focused) plays the boundary sound while the key is held and says why once. So does a chord pressed where it cannot act: with focus on a toolbar button or the page, "The chart does not have focus. Control Alt Shift C returns to the chart."; under a dialog, "Not while Properties is open. Escape closes it." The one dialog the nudge works UNDER is the Object Tree (Alt+O), because that is where you focus a drawing — pick it in the tree, then nudge it without closing the tree. A run of nudges is a single Ctrl+Z. Exact values are typed in Properties (P), which has a price and date field for every anchor. The same six actions are in the drawing's context menu (Shift+F10) for voice control, switch access and single-pointer use.

Three platform notes. Shift+Arrow is select by character in every text box and in a screen reader's browse mode, so the terminal deliberately leaves it alone whenever the focus is in an <input>, <textarea> or <select> — the nudge fires when the chart itself has focus, or under the Object Tree, and says so anywhere else. (It moved here from Alt+Shift+Arrow on 2026-09-03: Orca claims that chord for table-cell navigation, so on Linux with a screen reader running it never reached the app.) On macOS with VoiceOver, the Ctrl+Alt+Shift+letter family is VoiceOver's own modifier (Control+Option) plus Shift when the modifier is set to Control+Option: set VoiceOver's modifier to Caps Lock, or pass a single chord through with VO+Tab. On the Linux web host, a missed Ctrl turns Ctrl+Alt+Shift+G into Alt+Shift+G, which is the Gann fan tool there; Escape cancels a tool armed by accident.

Modals and Panels

Journal Modal (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+J)

The Journal is the persistent review surface for everything the application has spoken or alerted on during the current session. It is the primary tool for reviewing setups that scrolled past in speech.

• The modal is a console-style text area (monospace, screen-reader friendly). Tab into it to read or copy any line.
• Filter buttons partition the buffer by category: All / Speech / Alerts / Setups / Errors / Backtests.
• "Copy visible" puts the currently filtered view onto the clipboard.
• "Clear" empties the in-memory ring buffer.
• The buffer holds up to 2000 entries. Newest entries are at the bottom.
• Composite-strategy setups appear with their full reasoned rationale: side, score, stop price, first target, R:R, and stop placement notes — exactly the form needed to review why a setup fired.

Mouse and touch equivalents

Every mouse or touch action routes into the same store the keyboard navigates, so speech and sonification fire identically for all three. The keyboard remains the canonical path; the other columns show the parity actions.

With VoiceOver or TalkBack running, the screen reader owns the touchscreen, so use the Bar navigator slider (flick up/down to step through bars; TalkBack steps one bar, iOS VoiceOver ~10% of the chart per flick) and the touch toolbar below the chart (Previous/Next bar, Previous/Next component, Play, Chart menu — swipe to a button, double-tap to press).

Notes

• Tab is not a shortcut in this application. Series switching uses Page Up / Page Down.
• Ctrl+I is not assigned. The Add Indicator dialog is Alt+A.
• Alt+Shift+C opens a Price Channel drawing — it is not a trendline shortcut. Trendlines use Alt+Shift+T.
• The P key opens indicator properties regardless of whether you use it alone or as Shift+F12. Both route to the same OpenProperties command.
• Drawing tools use sequential anchoring: press the tool shortcut once per anchor (navigate, re-press the same shortcut). There is no Enter-to-confirm and no Coordinate Entry mode — Enter/Return is not bound to drawing.