jscholes,
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Reading a web page with NVDA, and I hear:

> the backlight can be turned on/off directly from the keyboard with the CMD plus globe with meridians shortcut.

This is the 🌐 emoji, described by Emojipedia[1] as:

> A stylized globe, with blue meridians (longitudes) and latitude. Depicted with light-blue grid of lines on a white, blue, or empty circle.

The entry also says:

> May appear as an icon on devices to change (language) .

I'm none the wiser, personally. Which key is this?

[1] https://emojipedia.org/globe-with-meridians

TheQuinbox,

@jscholes That's the FN key.

quetzatl,

@jscholes I've been using a Mac for years and it doesn't ring a bell.

pitermach,

@quetzatl @jscholes That would be what we think of as the FN key, which on more recent Mac keyboards actually has the globe symbol printed on it, which matches the iOS "globe" key's icon which is used to change between multiple software keyboard languages. I don't remember off hand what it does by default now because I customised the settings but I think a single or double press on its own does indeed cycle languages now. The menu to customise what it does also just uses that globe Emoji which makes VoiceOver's reading of it just as fun.

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