These are some rough notes on using labels in Audacity. Label tracks can contain both cursor positions and selected time ranges which have been given a label. Sighted users can use label tracks for creating labels, moving between then, and editing them. Unfortunately, label tracks are only partially accessible for users of screen readers. The main problems are that the names of labels are not read by screen readers, and it's also very easy to accidentally create labels if a label track is the focus. However users of screen readers can use labels, if they only use the label track for creating labels, and also move the focus away from the label track immediately after creating a label. They can then use the Edit labels dialog to move to a label, or edit them. Unfortunately the Edit labels dialog is only accessible on Windows, not Mac or Linux. Creating labels, and using the Edit labels dialog are described below. Creating a label, not during playback. 1. Open the tracks menu, and choose Add label at selection (Ctrl+B). If there isn't already a label track, then one is automatically added to the project. The label track becomes the focus. 2. Type in a name for the label, and press Enter. 3. Press up arrow so that an audio track is the focus, rather than the label track. Creating a label during playback. 1. Optionally press P to pause. 2. Open the tracks menu, and choose Add label at playback position (Ctrl+M). If there isn't already a label track, then one is automatically added to the project. The label track becomes the focus. 3. Type in a name for the label, and press Enter. 4. Press up arrow so that an audio track is the focus, rather than the label track. 5. If you initially paused, then press P again to resume. The Edit labels dialog. This dialog can be used for moving to a label, and editing labels. To open the dialog, open the tracks menu, and choose edit labels. The dialog contains a Table, and a number of buttons. The Table has four columns: Track, label, start time and end time. For each label in the label track, there's a row in this table. You can navigate and if necessary edit this table in a similar manner to the table in the metadata editor. For example, you can press right arrow to move to the label column, and then press down arrow to move through the names of the labels. To move the cursor in the main window to a label position, move to that row in the table, and press Enter to press the default OK button. The dialog closes, and the cursor is moved to the position of the label. If you want to remove a label, move to that row in the table, press Ctrl+Tab to move to the first button after the table, Tab to the Remove button and press it. Alternatively you can make use of the button's access key, and simply move to the row in the table and press Alt+R. If one of the cells in a row is the focus, then you can move to the first button after the table by pressing Ctrl+Tab. David. The audacity4blind web site is at //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, Audacity keyboard commands, and more... To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with subject line unsubscribe