[A11y] Desktop app: keyboard shortcuts to jump to key locations (prompt input, latest response, project switcher) for screen-reader users

Summary

In the Claude desktop app, reaching key UI locations as a screen-reader user means stepping through many controls one at a time. That's slow and error-prone for everyday actions. Please add keyboard shortcuts (or a "skip to" / landmark mechanism) to jump focus directly to the primary locations, and document them.

Reported by a fully blind VoiceOver user on macOS (desktop app 1.15962.0, macOS 26.5.1); the same need applies to NVDA/JAWS on Windows.

The specific jumps that would help most

1. Jump straight to the prompt input field. Today, finding the text field to type a prompt requires navigating around the UI, skipping past various buttons and elements one at a time — it can take a while every single turn. A direct "focus the input" shortcut would remove that friction.

1. Jump to the top of the most recent response. After a reply arrives, reading it means navigating up from the bottom one line at a time to find the start. For a long response that takes a while, and it's easy to overshoot the top. A "go to the beginning of the latest response" shortcut would make replies readable immediately.

1. Jump to the project / working-folder switcher. Changing which project or folder the session is focused on currently requires field-by-field-by-field stepping to locate the control. A shortcut (or a clearly labeled, quickly reachable landmark) to open the project switcher would help a lot.

General request

A small, documented set of navigation shortcuts for the app's primary regions — prompt input, latest response (and ideally previous/next response), conversation list, and project switcher — consistent across macOS and Windows, and listed in the docs so they're discoverable. Screen-reader users rely on this kind of direct navigation in every other serious app (web "skip to content," landmark navigation, app-specific jump keys); the Claude desktop app needs an equivalent.

Related

• #67249 (folder picker UX) — the switcher this references.
• #58429 (speak responses aloud) — pairs with #2 above.

Offer

I'm a blind software engineer and happy to test candidate shortcuts on-device with VoiceOver.