Minecraft: Java Edition is designed with accessibility in mind so that players of all ability types can access menus and use visual cues or audio prompts to adjust settings, make game selections, and build a better world together.
Accessible Keyboard Menu Navigation
Minecraft includes the ability to use a keyboard to navigate in-game menus:
- Tab: The Tab key navigates you to the next menu item. Holding shift and pressing Tab navigates you to the previous menu item.
- Arrow Keys: Use the arrow keys to navigate all menus.
- Esc Key: Press the Escape key to close the current screen.
Accessibility Settings
Minecraft: Java Edition includes the following options to open the Accessibility Settings menu:
- Select the Accessibility icon on the title screen
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- Select Options then Accessibility Settings from the title screen or in-game pause menu.
Narrator Settings
Toggle Narrator options to select from the following:
- OFF: No narration for any game actions
- ALL: Narrates chat and system selections
- Narrates Chat: Turns on audio for all chat conversations
- Narrates System: Turns on audio for system notifications.
Narrator hotkey: Set to ON to allow the Narrator to be toggled on and off with ‘Ctrl + B’.
Narrator volume: Select Music & Sounds from the Options menu and use the Narrator/Voice slider.
Closed Caption Settings
- Select Closed Captions: ON to display messages describing the type and direction of sounds as text onscreen.
Control Settings
Select Controls . . . from the Accessibility Settings menu screen to access multiple ways to customize controls for gameplay to best suit your preferences:
MOUSE SETTINGS
- Sensitivity: Controls how fast the camera responds to your movements as you navigate your world.
- Touchscreen Mode: Changes how controller or mouse input behaves to mimic touchscreen controls. Useful on devices that support touch-style input.
- Scroll Sensitivity: Controls how quickly you change between items when using menu scrolling.
- Discrete Scrolling: Enables step-by-step scrolling.
- Invert Mouse X / Y: Reverses movement directions.
- Allow Cursor Changes: Changes the mouse cursor appearance when hovering over menu items or interactive elements.
- Raw Input: Overrides operating system mouse settings that might make cursor movement inconsistent.
GAMEPLAY/KEYBOARD SETTINGS
- Key Binds: Allows you to customize which keys control in-game actions.
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Action Buttons: Select Hold if you want to hold the action key down to enable the feature. Select Toggle to turn the action on and off by pressing and releasing the action key.
- Sneak: Controls sneaking (moving quietly).
- Sprint: Controls character speed in the game.
- Attack/Destroy: Controls how attacking mobs or breaking blocks is triggered.
- Use Item/Place Block: Controls using items (such as food or tools) and placing blocks.
- Auto-jump: Select Auto-Jump: ON to jump automatically when moving toward a block you can climb.
- Sprint Window: Controls how much time you have between key presses to trigger sprint.
- Operator Items Tab: When in Creative Mode, if toggled ON the Operator Items inventory tab will display on the creative inventory screen.
Visual Settings
CONTRAST
- High Contrast: Select High Contrast: ON to turn on a built-in resource pack that enhances the contrast of menu UI elements.
- High Contrast Block Outlines: Select ON to enhance the block outline contrast of targeted block.
TEXT BACKGROUND AND SPACING
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Text Background: Adds a background behind text to improve readability. Choose which text will have a background added:
- Everywhere: All text will have a background appear.
- Chat: Only chat text will have a background.
- Text Background Opacity: Adjust the opacity of backgrounds added to text.
- Line Spacing: Adjust the spacing between lines of text in chat.
TEXT APPEARANCE AND CHAT NOTIFICATIONS
- Panorama Scroll Speed: Adjusts the speed of the title screen panorama in the background.
- Chat Delay: Controls how long chat messages appear.
- Hide Splash Texts: Hides the yellow splash text in the main menu.
- Monochrome Logo: Toggle ON to change the Mojang Studios loading screen background color to black.
EFFECTS
Adjust the intensity of certain effects:
- Distortion Effects: Control the intensity of visual distortion during certain in-game events.
- Damage Tilt: Adjusts the amount of camera shake caused by being hurt in the game.
- FOV Effects: Adjusts how much the Field of View changes during actions like sprinting.
- Darkness Pulsing: Controls the pulsing brightness effect when under the Darkness status effect.
- Glint Speed: Controls how fast the visual glint shimmers across enchanted items.
- Glint Strength: Controls how transparent the visual glint is on enchanted items.
- Hide Sky Flashes: Set to ON to prevent lightning bolts or other environmental effects from making the sky flash. The sources of the flashes will still be visible.
- View Bobbing: Select OFF to remove the subtle bobbing motion whenever you walk or run.
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