Funnily enough, it was about 9 pm last night that I stumbled upon this myself. I found that command d in dialog boxes worked for don't save. Just like you, I missed that functionality. I haven't experimented yet on weather it works with other buttons in dialog boxes or if it's universal in apple apps, across all apps etc but will be playing round with interest.
There is a way that you can bring up a dialog box that will give you all the hot keys allocated to an app and yes, there are a lot that aren't spoken on menus etc which is a true shame. As far as I've been able to find out though, this so useful to VIP's function isn't VO accessible at all. I think it's a unix legacy feature carried on in OSX but here is where I drop my "I know jack about Apple" disclaimer and wait hopefully for people who actually know what there talking about to chime in and provide actual in factual information. <smile> Danny: On 21/01/2013, at 12:28 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I was reading through some of Apple's developer documentation and I stumbled > across a way to assign hotkeys to buttons in dialogs. For instance, if a > dialog comes up asking you to "save", "don't save", or "cancel", you might > hit cmd-d to activate "don't save". This is similar to Windows' scheme of > letting you press alt with a key to activate a button in most dialogs. Ever > since I started using the mac, the absence of these access keys has bugged > me, as they are such time-savers, particularly in dialogs with a lot of > buttons to tab or vo-arrow through. However, having discovered that it is > possible, at least programmatically, to implement access keys, I have to > wonder if these keys are available, but simply not announced by Voiceover? Is > there a setting that will let vo speak the keys, much like NVDA or Jaws on > Windows will say something like "save button, alt plus s"? Or is the case > simply that, while access keys are possible, no one uses them? Thanks. > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > [email protected] > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
