Navigate Widely with Win11's Narrator Tricks

Navigate Widely with Win11’s Narrator Tricks

Whether you are looking for assistance while using the computer or just want to learn more about accessibility tools, Narrator has many benefits that can be a big help to all users. It is basically a text-to-speech tool that reads text aloud so that you can easily access and understand information on your computer.

There are many keyboard shortcuts available for Narrator to help you make the most of this useful tool. To help you use Narrator more efficiently, we’ve compiled this comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts.

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All the Narrator Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows 11

Here are all the Narrator shortcuts available to you:

Shortcut Key	Action
General commands
Win + Ctrl + Enter	Start or stop Narrator
Narrator + Esc	Exit Narrator
Narrator + 1	Toggle input learning
Narrator + Right arrow	Move to the next item
Narrator + Left arrow	Move to the previous item

Narrator + Page up or down	Change view
Narrator + F1	Show commands list
Narrator + F2	Show commands for the current item
Narrator + Enter	Do the primary action
Narrator + Ctrl + Enter	Toggle search mode
Narrator + F12	Read the current time and date
Narrator + Ctrl + D	Describe an image online or find the source of a link

Narrator + S	Get a webpage summary
Narrator + S (2 times)	Get webpage summary with popular links
Narrator + Alt + F	Provide Narrator feedback
Narrator + Z	Lock Narrator key
Narrator + Ctrl + F12	Toggle developer mode
Narrator + 3	Pass the keys to the application
Narrator + 4	Change capitalization reading mode

Narrator + Alt + M	Toggle mouse mode
Narrator + H	Turn on or off Outlook column header reading
Adjust speech
Ctrl + Narrator + Plus (+)	Increase voice volume
Ctrl + Narrator + Minus (-)	Decrease voice volume
Narrator + Plus (+)	Increase voice speed
Narrator + Minus (-)	Decrease voice speed

Narrator + Alt + Plus (+)	Move to the next voice
Narrator + Alt + Minus (-)	Move to the previous voice
Narrator + Alt + Left bracket ([)	Change to the prior punctuation reading mode
Narrator + Alt + Right bracket (])	Change to the next punctuation reading mode
Narrator + V	Increase verbosity mode
Shift + Narrator + V	Decrease verbosity mode
Narrator + 2	Toggle character reading

Narrator + Forward slash (/)	Read context
Narrator + Alt + Forward slash (/)	Set read context verbosity
Narrator + Ctrl + Forward slash (/)	Change read context order
Read and work with text
Ctrl	Stop reading
Narrator + Tab	Read item
Narrator + Tab (2 times) Narrator + K (2 times)	Read the item spelled out

Narrator + 0	Read item advanced
Narrator + T	Read window title
Narrator + W	Read window
Narrator + X	Repeat phrase
Narrator + R	Read from cursor
Ctrl + Narrator + R	Start reading document
Narrator + C	Read Document

Shift + Narrator + J	Read text from start to cursor
Ctrl + Narrator + U	Read the previous page
Ctrl + Narrator + I	Read current page
Ctrl + Narrator + O	Read next page
Ctrl + Narrator + J	Read the previous paragraph
Ctrl + Narrator + K	Read current paragraph
Ctrl + Narrator + L	Read next paragraph

Narrator + Ctrl + M	Read the previous sentence
Narrator + Ctrl + comma (,)	Read current sentence
Narrator + Ctrl + period (.)	Read next sentence
Narrator + U	Read the previous line
Narrator + I	Read current line
Narrator + O	Read next line
Narrator + J Ctrl + Narrator + Left arrow	Read the previous word

Narrator + K	Read current word
Narrator + L Ctrl + Narrator + Right arrow	Read next word
Narrator + M	Read the previous character
Narrator + Comma (,)	Read current character
Narrator + Period (.)	Read next character
Narrator + F	Read the next group of formatting information
Shift + Narrator + F	Read the previous group of formatting information

Narrator + B Ctrl + Narrator + Home	Move to the beginning of the text
Narrator + E Ctrl + Narrator + End	Move to the end of the text
Narrator + Shift + Down arrow	Read selection
Narrator + Shift + Down arrow (2 times)	Spell selection
Navigate tables
Ctrl + Alt + Home	Jump to the first cell in a table
Ctrl + Alt + End	Jump to the last cell in a table

Ctrl + Alt + Right arrow	Jump to the next cell in the row
Ctrl + Alt + Left arrow	Jump to the previous cell in the row
Ctrl + Alt + Down arrow	Jump to the next cell in the column
Ctrl + Alt + Up arrow	Jump to the previous cell in the column
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Left arrow	Read the current row header
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Up arrow	Read the current column header
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Right arrow	Read current row

Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Down arrow	Read current column
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Forward slash (/)	Read which row and column the Narrator is in
Ctrl + Alt + Page up	Jump to the table cell
Ctrl + Alt + Page down	Jump to cell contents
Narrator focus commands
Narrator + Home	Move to the first item in a window
Narrator + End	Move to the last item in a window

Narrator + Backspace	Go back to one item
Narrator + N	Move to the main landmark
Narrator + Left bracket ([)	Move the Narrator cursor to the system cursor
Narrator + Single quote (‘)	Set focus on the item
Narrator + A	Jump to the linked item
Shift + Narrator + A	Jump to annotated content
Alt + Narrator + Up arrow	Navigate to parent

Alt + Narrator + Right arrow	Navigate to the next sibling
Alt + Narrator + Left arrow	Navigate to the previous sibling
Alt + Narrator + Down arrow	Navigate to the first child
Narrator + F7	List of links
Narrator + F5	List of landmarks
Narrator + F6	List of headings
Narrator + Ctrl + F	Narrator Find

Narrator + F3	Continue to Find forward
Narrator + Shift + F3	Continue to Find backward
Numeric keypad commands
Narrator + Home	Move to the first item in a window
Narrator + End	Move to the last item in a window
Narrator + Alt + Home	Read text from start to cursor
Ctrl + Narrator + Home	Move to the beginning of the text

Ctrl + Narrator + End	Move to the end of the text
Narrator + Left arrow	Move to the previous item
Narrator + Right arrow	Move to the next item
Narrator + 5	Read item
Narrator + 5 (2 times)	Read the item spelled out
Narrator + Up arrow	Read current line
Narrator + Down arrow	Start reading document

Ctrl + Narrator + Left arrow	Read the previous word
Ctrl + Narrator + 5	Read current word
Ctrl + Narrator + Right arrow	Read next word
5	Read current character
Narrator + Page up Ctrl + Narrator + Up arrow	Change view
Narrator + Subtract	Move the Narrator cursor to the system cursor
Narrator + Add	Set focus to the item
Ctrl + Narrator + Add	Increase voice volume
Ctrl + Narrator + Subtract	Decrease voice volume
Narrator + Alt + Add	Move to the next voice
Narrator + Alt + Subtract	Move to the previous voice
Narrator + Enter	Do primary action
Narrator + Ctrl + Enter	Toggle search mode

The Windows Narrator Can Do More

Are you tired of clicking around with your mouse while using Narrator? If so, learning Narrator keyboard shortcuts on Windows can enhance your productivity. Here’s a list of keystrokes for Narrator that you should know.