Keyboard shortcuts and accessibility

primedocs Desktop and the Office COM add-ins can be operated without a mouse. This page lists the keyboard shortcuts for daily work and describes the higher-contrast appearance. Shortcuts of the administrative views (template management, user management, settings) are under Administration keyboard shortcuts.

note

With the primedocs parameter AccessibilityFocusNonInteractiveElements, non-interactive elements can also be focused by keyboard so that screen readers pick them up. Setup is done by the administration (client installation).

primedocs Desktop

Main window

Shortcut	Action
ALT or F10	Show hotkeys
ALT+O	"primedocs" tab (backstage)
ALT+T	"Templates" tab
ALT+U	"Organisation" tab
CTRL+F	Jump to the search box

Text fields

Shortcut	Action
CTRL+C	Copy
CTRL+V	Paste
CTRL+X	Cut
CTRL+A	Select all
CTRL+Z	Undo
CTRL+Y	Redo

"primedocs" tab (ALT+O)

Shortcut	Action
ALT+A	"Account" submenu
ALT+O	"Options" submenu
ALT+H	"Help" submenu

"Templates" tab (ALT+T)

Shortcut	Action
(ALT+T)+N	Create new document
(ALT+T)+F	Add to favourites
(ALT+T)+G	Remove favourite
(ALT+T)+D	Create desktop shortcut
(ALT+T)+P	Profile menu
(ALT+T)+L	Choose document language
(ALT+T)+R	Filter templates
(ALT+T)+H	Template details

"Organisation" tab (ALT+U), Profiles area

Shortcut	Action
(ALT+U)+S	Save
(ALT+U)+D	Cancel
(ALT+U)+A	Assign organisational unit
(ALT+U)+P+N	New profile
(ALT+U)+P+C	Copy profile
(ALT+U)+P+D	Delete profile
(ALT+U)+P+E	Default e-mail profile
(ALT+U)+P+P	Share profile
(ALT+U)+P+S	Manage signature profiles
(ALT+U)+T+P	Inherit from parent
(ALT+U)+I+A	Insert image
(ALT+U)+I+D	Delete image
(ALT+U)+I+E	Export image
(ALT+U)+L	Lock

"Organisation" tab (ALT+U), Users area

Shortcut	Action
(ALT+U)+S	Save
(ALT+U)+D	Cancel
(ALT+U)+L	Lock
(ALT+U)+T+P	Inherit from parent
(ALT+U)+I+A	Insert image
(ALT+U)+I+D	Delete image
(ALT+U)+I+E	Export image

Office COM add-ins

Microsoft Office provides its own accessibility aids. The Office Accessibility Center gives an overview.

Shortcut	Action
ALT or F10	Show hotkeys
Tab	Navigate to content areas
Shift+Tab	Navigate back
F6	Move focus to a task area, for example the snippet pane

Snippet pane

The snippet pane has three parts: toolbar (insert snippet, properties, target language), search box and snippet area (favourites, own and shared snippets).

Shortcut	Action
Tab	Navigation
Shift+Tab	Navigate back
Ctrl+Tab	Jump between toolbar, search box and snippet area
Enter	Confirm selection, insert snippet

Contrast and appearance

For a more legible appearance, primedocs Desktop offers the themes Light - Higher Contrast and Dark - Higher Contrast. Borders, separators and secondary text stand out more clearly from the background. Choose the theme in the options, see Settings on the primedocs Desktop tab.

• Windows contrast themes: A contrast theme that is turned on, for example «Night sky», takes precedence over the chosen theme. primedocs Desktop and the primedocs windows in Office then show the colours of the contrast theme. The icons adapt to the light or dark background.
• Focus: The field that has the focus has a border in the accent colour. In Dark - Higher Contrast this border is wider on text fields and drop-down lists, and the accent colour is lightened until it stands out clearly against the dark background.
• Required fields: When a required field in the properties dialog is still empty on clicking OK, it gets a border and a message appears below it. The error is therefore not recognisable by colour alone. For a checkbox, the box itself is marked, for object and list fields only the message appears. While the field has the focus, its border shows the focus colour. The message is also stored as the field's help text, which screen readers can read out.