Keybindings
Anywhere
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Up / Down arrow | Move through everything on the screen, text included. |
| Tab / Shift+Tab | Move between buttons and other controls only. Tab wraps around. |
| Home / End | First or last item on the screen. |
| Enter or Space | Press the focused button, tick a box, or select a list row. |
| Escape | Close a dialog or go back. |
| A letter | Jump to the next button starting with that letter. Letters used by the screen you are on (listed below) do their own job instead. |
| 1 to 9 | Pick a choice by its number. |
| F6 | List the choices with their numbers. |
| D | More detail about the focused item, such as a person's full profile. |
| F3 | Ask the next advisor. Says which choices they recommend. |
| Shift+F3 | Ask every advisor. |
| Ctrl+F3 | The profile of the advisor you asked last. |
| F5 | Read the whole screen. |
| Ctrl+R | Repeat the screen's name and summary. |
| H | Repeat the current tutorial hint. Each hint is read once when it appears. |
| Shift+F1 | The keys for this screen. |
Sliders and lists
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Left / Right | Change the focused slider or list filter. |
| Page Up / Page Down | Change a slider by 10. |
| Home / End on a slider | Its lowest or highest value. |
| F / Shift+F | Next or previous list filter (Known Clans, Alliances, Favors Due and so on), wherever the focus is. |
Management screens
Clan, Farming, Magic, Relations, Trade, War, Map, Lore, Saga, Controls.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+9, Ctrl+0 | Jump to those screens, in that order. |
| Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab | Next or previous management screen. |
| F2 | Season, year, clan, resources and reputation. |
| S, then S again | End the season. |
| F1 | Open the game's manual. |
Magic screen
Each god in the deity list says whether you have a shrine, temple or great temple to them, and whether you sacrificed to them this year. The god's blessings follow its description, each with its state: not learned yet, known, given by your shrine or temple, or active this year from a sacrifice.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Space on a known blessing | Put it in the shrine or temple, or take it out. |
| Escape | Close the game's message about a sacrifice or a full temple. |
Dialogs
Feast, Gifts, Caravan, Emissary, Raid, Heroquest, the tribe's moot and the other dialogs opened from the management screens.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Enter | Press the dialog's action button (Send, Perform, Feast, Set and so on) from anywhere in the dialog. |
| F2 | The clan's resources. |
| F3 | Ask the advisors. |
| Escape | Close the dialog. |
Scenes
The text is read when it appears, and so is the outcome with its gains and losses.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| 1 to 9 | Pick a response. |
| Y / N | Answer a yes-or-no question. |
| F6 | List the responses. |
| F5 | Read the text and responses again. |
| F3 | Each advisor's view, and which responses they recommend. |
| F2 | Season and resources. |
News and battle moments
A pop-up where someone reports news, or a battle reaches a pivotal moment.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| 1 to 9 | Pick a response. |
| F6 | List the responses. |
| Escape | Close the news. |
Heroquests
Each step is read like a scene.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| 1 to 9 | Pick a response. |
| Hint button, after the responses | Spend a hint. Says which response the gods expect. |
Sacred Time
Last year's summary, the clan's reputation, the forecast and the magic in reserve are read on arrival.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Up / Down | Move between the rituals. |
| Right | Add a point of magic to the ritual. |
| Left | Take a point back. |
| F3 / Shift+F3 | Ask the next advisor, or all of them. |
| P | Proceed into the new year. |
Choosing a leader
For a caravan, emissary, exploration or heroquest.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Up / Down | Move through the clan's people. |
| D | The person's full skills. |
| Enter | Pick the focused person. |
| Escape, or the Choose button | Confirm. |
| F | Change which skill the list is sorted by. |
Reorganize (the clan ring)
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Space | Put the focused leader on the ring, or take them off. |
| C | Make the focused leader chief. |
| D | The leader's full skills. |
| F | Sort by a skill. |
Press the Reorganize button to keep the changes. Escape leaves without changing anything.
Map and exploring
The Map screen lists the clans you know, nearest first, with distance and direction.
In the Explore panel, the first control is Destination. Its list starts with the nearest unexplored land in each direction, then named places and known clans' lands.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Left / Right | Next or previous destination, with distance, direction and whether it is explored. |
| Page Up / Page Down | Move 5 destinations at a time. |
| Shift + arrow keys | Move the exploration cross one step (about five miles) north, south, east or west, to aim at any spot. Says how far it is, whether it is explored, and what it is near. |
Then choose a leader, guards and speed, and press Send.
Manual, myths and saga
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Up / Down | One paragraph at a time. |
| Ctrl+Up / Ctrl+Down | Previous or next heading. |
| Enter on a link | Open it. |
| Backspace | Back to the previous page. |
In the saga, choose an earlier year and press Restore to replay from that year.
Typing a name
Enter on a text field (the clan name) starts editing. Every key goes to the game and each letter is read back.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Backspace / Delete | Remove a letter. |
| Enter | Finish. |
Troubleshooting
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| F12 | Turn the debug log on or off. |
| Ctrl+Shift+D | Save the current screen to a file for a bug report. |
The log is AccessDragonPass.log in the King of Dragon Pass folder.
Alt+F4, Alt+Enter, Alt+Tab and your screen reader's own keys always work as usual.