NVDA, Keyboard Shortcuts and Google Drive- Creating New Items

Introduction

In this video I demonstrate how to use keyboard shortcuts in order to create new items in Google Drive. I will also be using a screen reader, NVDA.

Google Drive is the free cloud storage service that Google provides to anyone with a Google account.

Integrated into the storage is an online version of office that contains a simplified version of Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

And so the new items that you can create are a new document, spreadsheet, presentation, folder, drawing and form.

And the shortcuts are;

Pressing the shift key and the t key will create a new document.

Pressing the shift key and the s key will create a new spreadsheet.

Pressing the shift key and the p key will create a new presentation.

Pressing the shift key and the d key will create a new drawing.

Pressing the shift key and the f key will create a new folder.

And pressing the shift key and the  key will create a new form.

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Hello and welcome to this video.

In this video I am going to quickly show you how to use some keyboard shortcut keys to create new items in Google Drive.

I will be using the screen reader NVDA as I do this.

Google Drive is the free cloud storage service that Google provides to anyone with a Google account.

Integrated into the storage is an online version of office that contains a simplified version of Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

And so the new items that you can create are a new document, spreadsheet, presentation, folder, drawing and form.

Google has been very helpful to build these shortcut keys into the system and so although I will be using the screen reader NVDA, these shortcuts will work without a screen reader.

Before I demonstrate the shortcut keys, I need to make sure that NVDA is in the correct mode to access these built in shortcuts.

NVDA has a browse mode and a focus mode. You can toggle between the two by pressing the NVDA key (which is most likely the Insert key) and the Spacebar.

Press and release these two keys together until you hear the sound effect of a letter key being pressed on a keyboard.

Now I am ready to demonstrate six keyboard shortcuts.

Pressing the shift key and the t key will create a new document.

Pressing the shift key and the s key will create a new spreadsheet.

Pressing the shift key and the p key will create a new presentation.

Pressing the shift key and the d key will create a new drawing.

Pressing the shift key and the f key will create a new folder.

And pressing the shift key and the  o key will create a new form.

And that’s it. The six shortcut keys that you can use to create new items in Google Drive and how you can access them using the screen reader NVDA.

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