> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.scaling.cloud/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Using Scaling from the keyboard

> Move through any screen with Tab, see exactly where you are, and reach the page content without walking the navigation first.

Scaling is often read at the worst possible moment — one hand on a laptop, the
other on a phone, nobody near a mouse. So buttons, links, fields, menus and
dialogs can be reached and operated from the keyboard, and the one you are on
is always marked.

## Tab moves you, and the ring says where you are

Press **Tab** to move forward through a screen and **Shift + Tab** to move back.
Whatever you land on is drawn with a **ring**: a two-pixel outline in the
product's accent colour, with a small gap between it and the control so it stays
legible against the surface underneath.

That ring is the same on every control — buttons, links, text fields, the notes
box on a finding, the navigation down the side of the screen. There is nothing
to learn per screen: if something is ringed, that is what your next keypress
acts on.

<Note>
  The ring appears when you are moving by keyboard. Clicking a button with a mouse does not leave a
  ring behind on it, which is why you may not have noticed it before.
</Note>

If you are in a text field, the ring means your typing goes there. If you are on
a button, **Enter** or **Space** presses it.

## Both themes

The ring is drawn to be visible against whatever is behind it, in the light
theme and the dark one, on the page and inside a card. We measure it rather
than judge it by eye: it has to be at least two pixels wide and clear the
contrast bar the accessibility guidelines set for the boundary of a control, on
every control, in both themes. A ring you cannot quite make out is treated as a
bug, not as a preference.

If you can find a control in Scaling where you cannot tell you are on it, that
is worth telling us about.

## Skipping the navigation

Every signed-in screen starts with a **Skip to content** link. It is invisible
until you Tab onto it as the first thing on the page, and then it appears at the
top left.

Press **Enter** on it and you land on the page's own content, past the
navigation. On a screen you visit repeatedly — the findings list, a source's
history — that is the difference between one keypress and a dozen.

## The controls you will meet

| Control                     | Keys                                                         |
| --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Buttons and links           | **Enter**, or **Space** on a button                          |
| Text fields and notes boxes | Type; **Tab** leaves the field                               |
| Dialogs                     | **Escape** closes; Tab stays inside the dialog until it does |
| Menus                       | **Up** and **Down** arrows; **Enter** chooses                |

Confirming and dismissing a finding are both single buttons, so the whole of
[judging a finding](/guides/judging-a-finding) is reachable in a few presses
without ever leaving the keyboard.