Hello
I am a teacher of students with visual impairments. I have a student who is using krita for a class project to create a gif. She does not use a mouse because she uses a screen reading program to help her access her computer. I am trying to figure out where I can find a Keybind scheme for the animation timeline. Right now we are looking for commands to duplicate frames and move around effectively in the time line while her screen reading program (JAWS) is running. Any help would be appreciated please.
Hello @Faerily_Rowanwind and welcome to the forum 
Many animation actions can have a keyboard shortcut assigned to them. Here are a few and you can see them all in Settings → Configure Krita → Keyboard shortcuts:
There are a couple in Canvas Inputs as well:
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Hello!
Thank you so much for your answer. Part of my issue is my student uses a screen reader program that works on key commands. I have to make sure the key binds created do not mess with the key commands. When one goes to add a key bind does it tell you if it is used for something else?
When you make a keybinding in the keyboard shortcuts, you will be warned if that keybinding is already in use in krita.
Then you can try a different one or you can remove the conflicting keybinding.
If you are using another application at the same time then it’s usually the application that has window focus that gets the keystrokes.
Is the screenreader program activated for use/input by a special key combination?
For finding a key combination that isn’t already in use, which can be tricky, there is a way around that.
It is possible to enter two keys in quick succession one after the other and have that double key action be the keybinding.
If you do that, the first key must not already be in use.
An example of this is where the ‘S’ key is not used in the default keybindings. So, you can enter ‘S’ followed by any other key. This greatly increases the number of possible keybindings but it’s already difficult to remember them all.
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well we are just going to mess with it. my student doesnt have a mouse its just her keyboard and stylus and she cant see well enough to use her stylus to make the duplicate frame. Im wondering if the frame is there like a template if she can copy and paste rather than having to duplicate
Using keyboard shortcuts, you can Copy a frame (or multiple frames) that is/are selected, you can Paste a frame (or previously copied multiple frames) to another frame after the other frame has been selected or you can Duplicate the preceding keyframe to a selected frame using a keyboard shortcut.
It the same principle as copying and pasting text strings in a text document except that you don’t use the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V keyboard shortcuts for animation frames.
You have to create the shortcuts as whatever key combination you want to use.
(Provided that key combination is not already in use as pointed out earlier.)
I think we are going to be using the auto duplicate feature (took me a hot minute to find it) this may solve our immediate issue
Auto Frame Mode being enabled and set to AutoKey Duplicate is useful if you are doing a particular type of animation where the next keyframe is based on a copy of the previous keyframe.
That would be ‘efficient’ but sidesteps the awareness of other options and other possible ways of making animations.
Yeah. In this case it meets our specific needs for her project and gives me more time to look at possible key bind solutions
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