Hello Alex and Lisette, A small correction to Lisette's summary: when you press the power button and have the options to restart, sleep, cancel or shutdown, pressing return shuts down your machine, pressing "r" restarts it, pressing "s" puts it to sleep, and pressing return completes the shutdown.
This is not something VO reports separately because this is another situation in which these keyboard shortcuts work for all Mac users. In general, in dialog windows, pressing the "return" key always submits the current selections and pressing the "escape" key cancels the action. On menus that I'm familiar with -- such as creating smart playlists or entering tag information in iTunes, I always press "return" to send in my selections and press "escape" to cancel the action instead of navigating to buttons at the end of the menu. One of major problems that new Mac users have is not realizing that there are a huge assortment of keyboard shortcuts built into the Mac operating system already that everyone uses, and that are not VoiceOver specific. This does mean that you can often find out if there's a shortcut for what you want to do by doing a general Google search. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jan 20, 5:38 pm, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wonder, then, why vo does not report these? My understanding from the > developer documentation is that a single key can indeed be used, and that > modifiers like command are optional. So, if these keys are set > programmatically, that should be something vo reports to the user. I'm off to > write to Apple accessibility about this. > On Jan 20, 2013, at 10:32 PM, Lisette Wesseling <lisettewessel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > When you press the power button, you can then press the hot keys; s for > > shut down, r for restart, and something else for sleep I can't remember. No > > command modifier key needed here. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
