If the laptop is a 15.6 inch and it has a numeric pad, do we need to have
physical mouse button keys?
Can't we use the standard way offered by JAWS (numpad / and numpad *)?
For me the missing application key is not a problem. I removed it even from
my desktop keyboard, together with the Windows keys. :-)
I assigned it to Control+` in default.jss and it does an Shift+F10. And it
works fine.
Today I visited 2 important computer seller shops and I tested many
keyboards. I've seen that Toshiba seems to have the best accessible
keyboards.
I've seen one with an I5 processor and 4 gb ram that was pretty cool. It has
spaces above the left/right arrows, some vertical space at the left of the
numeric block, and... something very rare, actually found on this laptop
only, the function keys were separated in blocks of 4 keys with spaces, like
on a desktop keyboard.
Too bad that they didn't have a model with an I7 processor and at least 8 gb
ram.
And the marks on f and j keys were not very raised unfortunately, but this
can be solved by sticking something on those keys.
I also found some Dell and Acer laptops with spaces above left/right keys,
but no space that separates the numeric block and the rest of keys.
Lenovo and Assus were pretty bad, with all keys the same, with the same
amount of space between all keys, so it is hard to work on them.
So I need to search some more.
I haven't seen HP laptops, but I heard that their keys are also not very
well separated.
--Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Soronel Haetir" <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 10:37 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Laptop recommendation
I don't really have a recommendation.
I've been fairly happy with my current HP except that it does not have
an applications key (I used a tool to remap the print screen key to
perform that action but I find that less than ideal). Also, it seems
to get BIOS updates on an all too regular basis and when that happens
the F-key row gets set back to action keys (where you need to use the
Fn key in combination in order to get the normal F key behavior) and
when that happens I require sighted assistance to change the BIOS
setting back to what I want.
As far as the application key bit goes I simply doubt I will be buying
another laptop without physically handling the model first. This one
has a full sized keyboard (meaning it has a separate numpad, arrow
keys, home/end, page up/page down) but it simply lacks the application
key. Sad bit is this one is physically a little wider (by about 1/2")
than my prior laptop (which was also an HP) but the keyboard on the
new one is shoved into a narrower space. Yet the old laptop had an
application key while the new one does not.
Oh, this one also does not have physical mouse button keys, you are
supposed to perform some gesture on the touch pad, I find that a
little annoying also. But I believe that is pretty standard now so
probably something that will just have to be endured.
On 7/17/15, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
OK, thanks Doug and Soronel. This is good news. :-)
Do you have recommendations for a certain brand or model that offers a
little better accessible keyboard by chance?
--Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Lee" <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 3:18 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Laptop recommendation
High-resolution laptops can break scripts that run against old,
non-DPI-aware applications. I'm not sure if changing the screen
resolution would fix this because I haven't tried, but I fully expect
that tactic to succeed. I would not tend to avoid a good laptop
because of the high-DPI issues. I am running one of those things right
now. :-)
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 02:22:27AM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
Hello,
Can you please tell me if the laptops with very high resolution like ~
1900
x 100 or even ~ 3000 x 2000 dpi can create a problem for JAWS scripts?
Or if we manually set the resolution to something low like 1024 x 768,
then
it doesn't matter the max possible resolution of display?
I am searching for a good laptop and I want to know if I should avoid
something.
Thanks.
--Octavian
__________???
View the list's information and change your settings at
//www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
--
Doug Lee, Senior Accessibility Programmer
SSB BART Group - Accessibility-on-Demand
mailto:doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ssbbartgroup.com
"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done,
it was done." --Helen Keller
__________�
View the list's information and change your settings at
//www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
__________�
View the list's information and change your settings at
//www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
--
Soronel Haetir
soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx
__________�
View the list's information and change your settings at
//www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
