[jaws-uk] Re: Using JAWS with Adapted Keyboards
- From: "Jamie Cuthbertson" <jamie.cuthbertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:51:34 +0100
Andrew,
I'm afraid that I don't know much about keyboard guards or other types of
keyboard but I am curious to know if the lady has selected Jaws herself or
if this is a recommendation from a third party?
It would also be useful to know what kind of applications the lady wants to
get access to as this might give other options in terms of the access system
that is most appropriate for her.
Jaws is certainly very reliant on keystrokes to do most things, as are most
speech packages. What goes through my head at this stage is whether a
speech recognition package in combination with Jaws (or another speech
software) might be a better solution than relying on keyboard input alone.
Further information about the tasks to be performed here might help guide an
opinion.
Hope this helps,
Jamie
-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Andrew Ronksley
Sent: 19 October 2007 12:23
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Using JAWS with Adapted Keyboards
Hi everyone.
I am hoping someone might be able to help me out on this one. I work for a
small charity based in East London that works with assistive technology. I
have a client who is wanting to use JAWS but she struggles to use a standard
keyboard as she has quite bad shakes and tremors in her hands. We have
looked into the use of a keyboard guard with her and this helps to an extent
but it is still not ideal for her.
She has been tried with some adapted keyboards and guards which have much
larger keys. These are the keyboards we have been looking at for her -
BigKeys LX (http://www.inclusive.co.uk/catalogue/acatalog/big_keys_lx.html)
and Jumbo XL (http://www.inclusive.co.uk/catalogue/acatalog/jumbo_xl.html).
She can manage much better with these but i am a little unsure as to how
well these keyboards can be used to control JAWS. Neither of these keyboards
have a numeric keypad as found on a standard keyboard. Does anyone have any
prior experience of using JAWS with an adapted keyboard or does anyone know
if this is something that will cause a problem for using JAWS? If so, does
anyone know of any workarounds that may be possible, i.e. changing the
keyboard commands in JAWS etc? I am not a screen reader user myself and so i
am a little unfamiliar with all of the keyboard commands for controlling
JAWS.
Thanks very much for your help.
Regards,
Andrew Ronksley.
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