Accessible Trading Terminal — Keyboard Shortcuts

All shortcuts are sourced from ShortcutManager.InitializeDefaultProfile(). Shortcuts not listed here are not assigned by default. Users can customise bindings via the Sound Designer or by editing the shortcuts profile saved at %LOCALAPPDATA%\AccessibleTrader\shortcuts.json (MAUI heads) or ~/.local/share/AccessibleTrader/shortcuts.json (Linux WebHost).

Host-specific note: WebHost remaps Ctrl+Shift+letter to Alt+Shift+letter

Firefox (and most browsers) reserve several Ctrl+Shift+letter chords at the browser-chrome level — Ctrl+Shift+T reopens a closed tab, Ctrl+Shift+H opens history, Ctrl+Shift+P starts a private window, Ctrl+Shift+J opens the browser console, etc. — and they are NOT cancellable from page-level JavaScript even with preventDefault. So the Linux WebHost rewrites those bindings in-memory at startup: every Ctrl+Shift+letter chord becomes Alt+Shift+letter (Firefox does not reserve Alt+Shift+*). Same letter, same command, different modifier. Two-modifier chords with three modifiers (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N etc.) are untouched.

The remap is purely in-memory and never persisted to shortcuts.json, so the disk profile remains portable between hosts. The Help dialog (F1) reads the live in-memory profile, so each host self-documents its current bindings — you always see the right modifier on the host you're using.

Some reserved chords are not just remapped letter-for-letter — they're 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 (NavSubPanePrev/Next — jump between indicator sub-panes) — also cycle browser tabs, so on the web they move to Alt+PageUp / Alt+PageDown.

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)

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."

Playback

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

Indicator Management

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. 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. Ctrl+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.

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.

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.
• Ctrl+Shift+C opens a Price Channel drawing — it is not a trendline shortcut. Trendlines use Ctrl+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.