I know about that feature, but I don't like to use it in case there are 
conflicts with app hotkeys.
On Jan 21, 2013, at 2:56 AM, Jürgen Fleger <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just additional:
> CTRL + Option + CMD + eject = shut down Mac
> CTRL + CMD + eject = restart
> Option + CMD + eject = sleep mode
> 
> To Alex: 
> Do you know of the "Quick Search" option in VoiceOver? If it's selected you 
> can use one of the CMD keys + the first letter of anything and VO brings you 
> to the next entry with this first letter. Means for dialogue boxes: pres CMD 
> + d for "Don't save" and CMD + s for "Save" or CMD + c for "Cancel". Works 
> rather good. You'll find the option in VoiceOver settings in "Navigation" 
> category.
> Sorry but I'm not able to explain it better in english. Hopefully you'll get 
> what I meant.
> 
> Jürgen
> Am 21.01.2013 um 04:47 schrieb Danny Noonan <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Not quite but use modifiers with the power button to do the following.
>> 
>> 
>> Control + power = show shutdown dialog.
>> Option + Command + power = Sleep mode.
>> Control + Command + Power = quit  all applications and restart the computer.
>> Control + option + Command + Power = quit all applications and shut down the 
>> computer.
>> 
>> Hope this helps.
>> 
>> Danny:
>> 
>> On 21/01/2013, at 2:21 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Not just that. When you push the power button you get the dialog with 
>>> buttons for sleep, restart, shut down, and so forth. Do these have hotkdys 
>>> vo simply can't see?
>>> On Jan 20, 2013, at 10:17 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've not found the hot keys yet.  I understand now what you  are asking 
>>>> now if you close something before you finish it. 
>>>> 
>>>> On 21 Jan 2013, at 03:12 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Saving was an example. Take, for instance, an email, When you close an 
>>>>> email without sending it, you are presented with a dialog with three 
>>>>> buttons to save a draft, don't save, or cancel. What I wonder is if this 
>>>>> and other dialogs all have hotkeys for the different buttons? I know 
>>>>> applications have hotkeys through menu items, but dialogs, by definition, 
>>>>> have no menus and therefore no menu items to bind to hotkeys.
>>>>> On Jan 20, 2013, at 9:55 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> You don't have a save button on the Mac. Once you have done something, 
>>>>>> just close the window and it's there for you next time. I prefer that to 
>>>>>> be honest.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 21 Jan 2013, at 01:28 AM, 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)
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>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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