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 <mehg...@gmail.com> 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 <kawa...@me.com> 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 <mehg...@gmail.com> 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)
>>> mehg...@gmail.com
>>> 
>>> 
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