Access Dragon Pass

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.