Keybord commands for visually impaired users

PedroMaestro
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).
  • adamsmith
    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).
  • PedroMaestro
    Adamsmith, I cannot find in Zotero that shortcut you speak of, it does not appear.

    I have the most recent Zotero version, I think.

    Zutilo is not compatible with the current version of Zotero.
  • adamsmith
    Shift+ctrl+c is available when you have items selected in the middle panel (otherwise it doesn't do anything).

    There's a Z7 compatible version of Zutilo linked from a support thread (and I mention an alternative add-on, too).
  • PedroMaestro
    First of all, I'm not a native English speaker, so I may have difficulties in getting the full meaning of your writings.

    As you can see, something is missing in my computer version.

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u1703388/qobi7cmqze5e4668vskn.png
  • adamsmith
    Shortcuts are just a bit further up from where you are, but you don't need to see the settings to use them.
  • PedroMaestro
    OK, I've just seen.

    Thank you very much!

    Pedro.
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