I can't sorry. I've herd about it and been told it isn't VO friendly but as I said, someone with direct knowledge will have to provide some information as I only have here say.
Danny: On 21/01/2013, at 3:01 PM, Estelita <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > ----- Original Message ----- 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] >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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.
