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- Keyboard navigation of the help system is clumsy. Say you have a topic highlighted and the page on the right is larger than the screen. How do you scroll it down without the mouse. The answer is you have to tab to higlight that part of the window then hit page down. Now that you finished that page, how do you get to the next? Answer tab around to higlight the tree of topics and then hit the down arrow. That is a pain to read the help documents. NOTES:
as well, many of the dialog windows have no help button to describe what the user is supposed to do next..
The platform approach (i.e. the recommended way) is to avoid adding "Help" buttons in dialogs, wizards, etc. but use F1 for context help. Perhaps you may want to open a bug on the UI component regarding the use of Help buttons on wizards. For now, I will track the accessibility problems with this bug.
Marking as an enhancement.
Fixed as part of the other accessibility enhancements. Select a topic in the navigation (left frame). Its content gets displayed in the main content area. If you want to scroll it, Ctrl-Tab takes you to that frame, and you can use up/down arrows to scroll. Shift-Ctrl-Tab takes you back to the list of topics and you can continue tabbing from where you left off.
