Controlling the Mac with keyboard

Does anyone know of a tutorial or other instructions for how to use the hidden-to-me accessibility features of the Mac? "Full Keyboard Access" is turned on in the Keyboard and Mouse > Keyboard preference pane. Yet there doesn't seem to be a way to navigate the dialog boxes in Apple apps by keyboard.
Example using Text Edit.
CMD-F calls up the find dialog box but no key combinations seem to activate any of the buttons (i.e. replace all, replace, replace & find, etc.).
CMD-Shift-: [colon key] calls up the spelling dialog box, but no key combination seem to activate the buttons (i.e. ignore, correct, etc.) and worse still there doesn't seem to be a way to close the dialog box (CMD-W doesn't work) and sometimes other shortcuts will get activated even if the spelling dialog is open.
I've searched in Apple Help and the only shortcuts seem to be for turning Universal Access on and off not for moving between the buttons. Thanks.

p.s.
I see what you mean.
In Finder help a search of keyboard access, found Full keyboard access for highlighting items which might be usegul to you.
There is in the list also mention of creating custom controls, but I have no experience with that as I use the mouse mostly.
I hope you find what you are looking for.
regards
roam

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