You can plan in liveplanner without a mouse. This page covers the keyboard and screen-reader basics: getting round the editor, working a board and a sheet, and hearing what changes. For the everyday shortcuts, see Keyboard Essentials.
Getting round the editor
Every button, tab and field is in the normal Tab order, with a focus ring when you navigate by keyboard (mouse users see nothing new). To skip a long run of controls, press F6 to jump to the next part of the screen (the header, the work in the middle, the bottom-right controls and the tab bar) and Shift+F6 to go back. Open dialogs keep focus inside them until you close them with Escape.
Cmd+K (Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux) opens search, which reaches plans, tabs, settings and commands from the keyboard.
Working a board
Tab to a card on a board, then use the arrow keys to move between cards. Enter opens the card's panel, Shift with the arrow keys moves the card to another column or up and down its column, N adds a card to its column, and Delete moves it to the Trash.
Screen readers hear every move, for example "#12 Fix login moved to In Progress, position 4 of 4", and when a card goes to the Trash. Viewers can move between and open cards, but not change them. See Boards.
Working a sheet
A sheet takes the keys of any spreadsheet: the arrow keys move between cells, Shift with them selects, Enter and Tab move down and across, typing replaces a cell, and F2 edits it. Alt+Down opens a cell's dropdown, and the menu key (or Shift+F10) opens the cell's menu. See Sheets.
Undo is announced
Undo and Redo (Cmd+Z and Cmd+Shift+Z) work from anywhere in the editor, and each is announced to screen readers ("Undid the last change", "Redid the last change"). These announcements are separate from the on-screen notifications, so you'll hear them even if you've turned notifications off.
Reducing motion
If animation is uncomfortable, turn on Reduce Motion in Settings, under Accessibility. It turns off the editor's animations and transitions, so panels and cards appear instantly instead of sliding or fading. Your device's own reduce-motion preference is always respected as well, and the setting follows you to your other devices.
Larger controls
If the panels and buttons are too small to read or hit comfortably, UI Scale in Settings, under Appearance, makes the panels, the toolbar and the corner buttons smaller or bigger (80% to 120%), with a separate scale for each underneath. Desktop only. On a Sheet tab, the zoom controls in the bottom-right corner make the cells themselves bigger, from 50% to 200%.
Turning shortcuts off
If you dictate into your browser, or another tool needs the keys, switch off Keyboard Shortcuts in Settings, under Keyboard. It is saved on this device only.
This is a baseline, honest but not exhaustive. If something you rely on is hard to reach with the keyboard or a screen reader, tell us: it helps us prioritise what to improve next.
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