Accessibility

From Audacity Manual

Keyboard shortcuts

A large number of keyboard shortcuts are available for those who can't use a mouse, and for those who find it quicker to use the keyboard. These keyboard shortcuts are described throughout the manual, and in the Keyboard Shortcut Reference. They can be customized on the Keyboard page of the Preferences dialog.

Parts of Audacity which are not fully accessible using the keyboard include:

• Clips. A track can contain any number of clips – sections of audio data that can be manipulated independently. If a track contains more than one clip, there is no way of moving easily through the clips using the keyboard. For example, there isn't a keyboard shortcut to move to the beginning of the next clip.
• Time Tracks, which can control the speed of audio tracks in a very flexible manner.

Screen readers

Large parts of Audacity are accessible to users of screen readers on Windows, but unfortunately this isn't the case on either the Mac or Linux.

On Windows Audacity is known to work well with the Jaws, Window-Eyes and NVDA screen readers. There is a Jaws Guide to Audacity, most of which is also applicable to users of Window-Eyes and NVDA.

The following parts of Audacity are not accessible to users of screen readers on Windows:

• Label Tracks, which contain labels for times and/or time ranges. If you Tab through a label track, then the labels are not read by any of the screen readers. However, it is possible to work around this using the Edit labels dialog, which is opened on the Tracks menu.
• Clips. As noted above, there's no way of moving easily through the clips in a track using the keyboard.
• Time Tracks.