Hi,
Can you please explain how to bring up this dialog box that will give us all
the hot keys allocated to an app?
You've done good job to find this.
Thank you.
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From: "Danny Noonan" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 2:29 AM
Subject: Re: hotkeys for buttons in dialogs?
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]
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