Hi Katrina, Do you, perhaps, have a computer store where you could test a keypad out before purchasing it? You might want to try using the Jaws laptop configuration first to be sure, as another lister has suggested, that it isn't an issue with the Sony keyboard. Just a thought, as I know I spent some time, too, trying to sort out the keypad. If I were the paranoid kind, I would say the manufacturers were just doing this to aggravate blind people. <grin> Crystal -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx