Ableton/Live/UG/41 Accessibility and Keyboard Nav/01 Menu and Keyboard Navigation Settings
- Accessibility and keyboard navigation options live in Ableton/Settings and in the Options and Navigate menus, alongside keyboard shortcuts for common commands.
- With Use Tab Key to Move Focus on, from the Navigate menu or the Display & Input Settings:
Tab / Shift+Tab — next or previous control.Option+Tab / Option+Shift+Tab (Mac), Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab (Win) — next or previous control in the same row of the Session or Arrangement mixer.
- With it off,
Tab switches between Session and Arrangement View as in earlier versions. - Wrap Tab Navigation —
Tab on an area's last control returns to the first, and Shift+Tab on the first goes to the last. - Move Clips with Arrow Keys — on by default; left and right arrows move selected clips or the time selection in the Arrangement. With it off, left collapses the time selection to its start and right to its end.
Cmd+, (Mac) / Ctrl+, (Win) opens the Settings.Tab and Shift+Tab move between options whether or not Use Tab Key to Move Focus is on. Up and down arrows change a focused option's value or state; Enter flips a toggle.Option+Tab / Option+Shift+Tab (Mac), Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab (Win), or the arrows on a focused Settings Page Chooser switch tabs. Shift+Tab from a tab's first control returns to the chooser.Esc closes the Settings. A new interface language takes effect after restarting Live.
- The Options menu has an Accessibility submenu with screen reader announcements such as Speak Menu Commands, Speak Minimum and Maximum Slider Values, and Speak Time in Seconds.
- Open it with
VO+M then O under VoiceOver (Mac), or Alt+O (Win).
- Most controls have descriptive text shown in the Info View. Screen readers can announce it: on macOS turn on help text in VoiceOver Utility's verbosity settings or press
VO+Shift+H; on Windows turn on Speak Help Text in the screen reader.