Keybord commands for visually impaired users

Good afternoon, I'm a university librarian and recently I run a tutorial class on Zotero.

Among the students was a blind person. He told me he liked Zotero but he'd like the "mouse commands" could also be executed through keyboard keys as, for example, copy/paste can be done with Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V.

That means that, for instance, the mouse command "Create bibliography from Collection..." could be executed also with a combination of keys such as Ctrl + C + 4 or whatever combinations the Zotero developers could make up.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Pedro Sánchez
Librarian
University of Salamanca (Spain).
  • Common actions already have dedicated keyboard shortcuts, including a shortcut for copying the bibliography for the selected items (Shift+ctrl+c) -- visible/readable in the File menu when you have those items selected.

    Less common functions can be accessed via the keyboard using standard functionality, so e.g. to create a bibliography from a selected collection, open the context menu (shift+F10 on Windows) and then choose the respective option -- that's similar to how sighted users would need to use right-click --> context menu to access that option. There are some add-ons that allow you to specify custom shortcuts for other actions (Zotero Actions and Tags or Zutilo).
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