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 <kawa...@me.com> 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 <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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