[X Newbies] hitting alert buttons with keyboard

[Ben Gold]

Yeah. I have that turned on.  A quick check of Microsoft Word's "save 
file?" dialog shows the same performance, I can tab the light blue 
highlight, but the Save button remains filled blue, and if I hit return 
it is the save button that is "clicked".

-B

On Jan 22, 2004, at 12:20 AM, leigh wrote:

>
> On Jan 21, 2004, at 7:02 AM, Ben Gold wrote:
>
>> Now on OS 9 I could tab to the other buttons and hit them too.  On OS 
>> X, the tab key moves a blue highlight to the other buttons, but does 
>> not move the solid blue color, and enter does not hit the key that is 
>> highlighted, it still hits the solid blue key.
>>
>> What does the highlight mean? it seems useless.  How can I tab to a 
>> button in an alert and hit return/enter to activate it?
>
> I use full keyboard access. Keyboard & Mouse prefs, keyboard tab.  It 
> will not only tab to the other button in dialogs, but also it will tab 
> to interface elements like checkboxes; it puts a thin blue outline 
> around them to select them. Use spacebar to activate the selected 
> item.
>
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