Re: [HIG] conforming to the GDP word list

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> I agree that mnemonic is a poor term; these types of keyboard 
> shortcuts are not memory aids.

Well, that kind of depends how you look at it... it would be fairly
pointless to list the  mnemonics for standard menu items in the style
guide if nobody was ever expected to remember them anyway.  For example,
a lot of people know very well without looking that in most Windoze
programs, they can do Alt+F-A to do a "Save As...", for which there is
(usually) no other keyboard shortcut.  And vision-impaired users end up
learning the mnemonic access sequence for pretty much every feature they
use in an app.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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