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Re:Undiscoverable UI Madness by madeofpalk on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:57PM (#22437777)
Is that a macOS thing, or just a conceptual problem with keyboard shortcuts?

IMHO macOS does a pretty decent job of discoverability for shortcuts as they’ll be listed there in the menu.

edit: originally I doubted whether Windows does this or not. It does! Somehow I missed this despite using Windows every day...

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Re:Undiscoverable UI Madness by noisem4ker on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:55PM (#22438376)
Windows programs absolutely do show shortcut keys in their menus.

http://homepage.eircom.net/~pcengineers/kbguide.html

This is in addition to access keys (also explained in the document above), underlined letters you can type to instantly navigate the menus and select even the items for which no shortcut is defined.

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Re:Undiscoverable UI Madness by madeofpalk on Thursday February 27, 2020 @05:50PM (#22438832)
My bad.
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Re:Undiscoverable UI Madness by DanBC on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:59PM (#22438412)
Here's what I get on Windows 10 in Firefox, showing both the shortcuts and the menu keys. https://imgur.com/a/EUEr8y5
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