Windows standard for mnemonics

Question

Are there any mnemonic standards for Windows?

For example -- the menu bar, actions on the menu bar (e.g. Alt+f to file menu but ctrl+s to do the save under the file menu), and controls.

I'm asking because we have a search screen with many controls and we're trying to decide shortcut keys to get to fields and such described above.

Is there anything official at Microsoft or some RFC document that we could read and present in a meeting to figure out how to properly handle this.

The only thing I've found so far is this -- which helps some, but doesn't go in to great detail.

Further, is there maybe a book I can get to help me with designing such things?

How does the community feel about double mnemonics? (e.g. ctrl a, w)

Thanks!

Answer 1

You want to look at the User Experience Interaction Guidelines.

Particularly, the Access Keys part.