Hotkeys to interface elements in OS x?

Hi! I'm not exactly sure if I understand what you mean. Maybe somebody else might. But, for example, if I am in an application and I want to go to help in Windows I might press alt-h and on the mac I'd press vo-m for the menu then the letter h. As to the spellchecker i'm not exactly sure what you mean. Could you explain further? Are you talking about the buttons like Learn, and ignore and those things? I often use the spellchecker with command semicolon and then when the word is spoken I just do vo-shift-m and it gives me choices and I don't have to deal with the other spellchecker interface.

I think the hotkeys he's referring to is how in windows, most controls (buttons, checkboxes, etc), can be quickly activated with alt+another key. I wish OS X did that as well, but sadly, it doesn't. The closest you can get to that is with Voiceover's jumping function where you can hold a key and press a letter and it will jump to the first item that starts with it.

You can turn on a searching feature, where pressing a certain modifier in conjunction with the letter searches the current window for a control starting with that letter. There are a few built–in short cuts, such as command– D for"don't save "inmost dialogs with a "save/don't save" setup. Unfortunately, there is no actual hotkey system for most dialogs, which is one thing about the Mac that I really don't like.