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From: terri@accessible-systems.com
Date: Tue, Jan 09 2007 11:00 AM

The rule of thumb I use when creating documentation is to
include keyboard instructions for any actions that do not
follow standard industry OS navigation methodologies. For
example: If the documentation says, "click on the open icon
or select open from the file menu." This is sufficient as
long as the file menu keyboard short cut follows the
standard shortcut key of "F". If for some reason the
shortcut key were, (very problematically - in my view -
SMILE), "l" instead of "f" you would need to include this
in the documentation. "Click on the open icon or select
the file menu (Alt +l) then select "open".

I think it would clutter the documentation to have keyboard
short-cuts for EVERY step in the process. There must be at
least some basic keyboard navigation knowledge assumed by
the author.

Terri Youngblood


On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:26:39 -0600
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