re: Style Guide vs. GUI terminology

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> John Posada wrote:
> "select an application menu" 
> "click" an application button
> "press" a keyboard key
> 
> Delarking (thanks Kent Christensen) to comment:
> 
> Because our developers are supposed to provide a keyboard
> equivalent for every interaction users can perform with a mouse
> (Isn't this a Windows standard?), our user docs are
> input-device-neutral.  Why say "click an application button" when
> every command button, menu item, check box, etc., can be
> manipulated via keyboard as well as mouse?  

How do I press the F4 key with a mouse?

I'd go with putting an alternative in parens, but if a command is
invokced by pressing CTRL-F6, how can I tell the user how to invoke
that command without referencing the input device?



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