Wasted Keyboard Real Estate
- From: "Marquette, Ed" <Ed.Marquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:53:18 -0500
This may be more a philosophical question than anything else, but it has been
bugging me. So, I've set aside (for the moment) other pressing matters to see
if anyone else sees this the way I do.
Somewhere in JAWS development someone came up with the idea of a kind of key
sequence as contrasted with key combinations. I'm not talking about a "mode"
switch such as JAWS key plus Z to turn on the quick keys in MS Word. Rather,
I'm talking about the JAWS key in combination with the spacebar followed by R,
in the case of Research It, or S, in the case of synthesizer silence.
Actually, those appear to be the only two keys that ever follow the JAWS key
plus spacebar combination. It just seems like a ton of keyboard real estate
opens up with this key sequence. Do you suppose Freedom Scientific plans to
add more keys? Would there be a way for JAWS script writers to use this key
sequence to enable all sorts of new functionality without having to come up
with new, even more wrist straining, knuckle cracking twisted key combinations?
I can think of dozens of nifty uses for keys to follow the JAWS key plus
spacebar starter keystroke. It just seems that Freedom Scientific is wasting
the other 24 alphabetic keys, not to mention the numbers, and the alphabetic
keys in combination with shift, alt, and control and so on.
The two commands that Freedom Scientific has assigned to follow the JAWS key
plus spacebar don't really logically relate to each other at all either.
OK. I'll get back on my couch now and talk to my shrink and leave you all
alone.
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