Well you might look into changing the keys through the Jaws keyboard manager. From there you can assign 25 of the commonly used commands to what the keyboard can allow for. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Joeres" <peterjoeres@xxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 7:48 AMSubject: [jawsscripts] Is optimizing a Script for just 25 keys to suffice for typing and control a PC possible?
Motivation:For a blind friend of mine who also has problems in dealing with a standard keyboard I have developped an alternative input device to re-enable her to use her PC. Unfortunately this device only disposes of 25 physical keys. These are programmable and can also simulate key combinations such as Ctrl+2 e.g. . It now remains the task of defining a suitable and strongly optimized behaviour for the device. Extensive use of modifier keys will be necessary, so that standard usage of Ctrl, Alt, Shift and so on might probably not suffice. Using another language than JAWS does not seem feasible, as deviances in the command recognized as well as spelled aloud by JAWS on the on hand and the command eventually sent to the system on the other hand appear likely to occur.Problem:I suggest about four modifier keys that can be pressed either alone or in combination and will toggle the state of the other keys when pressed for short period and make "permanent" change in the behaviour of the non-modifier keys when pressed for, say, half a second.My Question:Up to now, we do not have any experience whether the JAWS scripting language is capable to fullfill these requirements. Therefore, I would strongly appreciate your appraisement, wether you think this can be implemented with the JAWS Scripting Language.Please contact me, if you have questions on this problem, as I might be too much "into the problem" to see which further information is necessary.I am grateful for any advice, alternative ideas, or even reference to functions (even very basic ones) that might be useful in this concern.Best Regards, Peter Joeres -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
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