How to pronounce “shortcut”(adj) in English

Could you navigate a shortcut route through that network rather than meandering, stumbling down blind alleys route that we took the first time around?

Could you navigate some kind of shortcut route through that vast interlinked network of scientific discoveries and new technologies that they allow, and their new scientific discoveries can make

So that means if there's any piece of this interface that does not have a shortcut key or I cannot tap to, it means