Hi Soronel,
Regarding your laptop...
Don't know how much vision you have, and pretty sure you've already considered
this, but you can also use Shift F10 rather than Windows applications key.
Pressing Shift F10 offers a couple more options in the right-click menu such as
"copy as path," which will copy to the clipboard the full path of file or
folder of interest.
Actually, on laptops, I turn the Windows applications key on left side of the
keyboard into a second Windows key to have access to all windows key
shortcuts--there's lots of them in Windows 8, and I use Shift F10 as I've
described above.
You might also be able to disable the mouse touchpad so you don't accidentally
touch it. Try this...
1. Press the Windows key to open the Start screen search box and type the
following as you want to get to the mouse properties:
mouse
2. When the mouse properties screen opens navigate to the tab to the extreme
right, which I believe is "Hardware tab." (Going off of memory.)
3. Press tab to access the various items within this tab. The entry associated
with your mouse might be the only item in the list. Press up or down arrow to
insure you've highlighted your laptop's touchpad.
Note: you can use the JAWS cursor to read the screen to get a better idea of
what this screen's settings can do for you.
4. Tab to the "Disable button" and press spacebar. This will disable your
touchpad.
5. Tab to Apply and press enter.
6. Tab to OK and press enter.
Now, whenever you accidentally touch the touchpad on your laptop nothing will
happen. Remember that if you ever need any sighted help, you will need to
enable this function once again using the method outlined above.
You might also want to search around to see if your laptop comes with a utility
which can help you configure how the function keys work. That is, a manner of
disabling the FN+Function key processes. If such a utility exists, you can use
it to get the normal use of your function keys without having to first press
the FN key. You may also not "have to" update your bios.
Don't forget that CapsLock+8 and CapsLock+9 will simulate pressing left and
right clicks respectively.
-----Original Message-----
From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Soronel Haetir
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 12:38 AM
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
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