Improved accessibility for comments with new keyboard shortcut
✅ Released
Product: Confluence
| Announced | 9 Mar 2026 |
| Rollout started | 9 Mar 2026 |
| Rollout ended | 23 Mar 2026 |
| Source | Atlassian blog ↗ |
Description
Section titled “Description”This update introduces enhanced accessibility for comments with a new keyboard shortcut that lets users quickly focus on open inline comments. These improvements make it easier for everyone to navigate and interact with comments. To get started with this change: Open a page in Confluence that contains inline comments. Type the new keyboard shortcut to focus on open inline comments:
Mac: Opt + Cmd + E Windows: Alt + Ctrl + E
Status history
Section titled “Status history”| Date | Status | Week |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Mar 2026 | ⏳ Rolling Out | ↗ |
| 16 Mar 2026 | ✅ Rollout Complete | ↗ |
| 23 Mar 2026 | ⏳ Rolling Out | ↗ |
| 30 Mar 2026 | ✅ Rollout Complete | ↗ |
| 6 Apr 2026 | ✅ Released | ↗ |