Keyboard and screen reader · How to play

Checkme can be played from the keyboard, with each move announced to a screen reader. Turn on Accessibility in Settings to use it.

Turning it on

In Settings, turn on Accessibility: keyboard play and announcements. It stays on for your next games.

Keys for playing on the board
Key	What it does
`Tab`	Reach the board. One square holds the focus, starting on e2.
Arrow keys	Move to the next square. They follow the board when it's flipped.
`Enter` or `Space`	Pick up the piece on the square, or play it to the square.
`Esc`	Put the piece down without moving it.

Below the board, the field “Type a move or a square” takes:

a move in the usual notation, such as Nf3, exd5 or O-O;
a move as two squares, such as e2e4, with the piece added to promote, such as e7e8q;
a single square, such as e2, which works like clicking it.

Then press Enter, or choose Play. A square on its own, such as e4, is read as a square, not as a pawn move: type e2e4 to move the pawn.

Promoting

From the keyboard, type the promotion with its piece: e7e8q for a queen, r, b or n for a rook, bishop or knight.

With Accessibility on, every move as it's played, for example “Black pawn takes knight on e4, check”.
Always, whether Accessibility is on or off: the line that says whose move it is, the result, and the board's notices.
Each square says its name and its piece, such as “e4, white knight”.

Tones mark moves, captures, check and the end of a game. Turn them off with Sound in Settings.