Re: recommended setting for jaws and touch pad on laptops?
- From: "Robbie Curtis" <essence64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:35:24 -0400
Hi Daniel:
I have a Toshiba laptop myself, and this is what I do to disable the touch pad.
1. Press insert-F11 to get to the system tray.
2. My pointing device is made by Synaptics, so I press S until I hear
Synaptics Pointing Device and press enter.
3. Once there, I go to the Device Settings tab. You can do this by pressing
CTRL-TAB until you hear Device Settings.
4. Press TAB in Device Settings. You should now hear the name of the
pointing device.
5. Tab over once to get to the Disable button and press the spacebar. You
will get a warning message asking if this is what you really want to do. Press
the spacebar on OK.
6. SHIFT-TAB to the Apply button and press the spacebar. Then SHIFT-TAB to
OK and again press the spacebar.
If your computer model is anything like mine, your touch pad should now be
disabled and you can come out of the system tray. Hope this helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel McGee
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 9:55 AM
Subject: recommended setting for jaws and touch pad on laptops?
Hi to all, as my subject says, I have a laptop running Windows Vista Home
Premium Jaws 12 and it's a Toshiba but I don't know the model of the make i'm
afraid. Anyway The other day I decided I fancyed sitting on my bed doing some
writing for one of my assignments for my college course. I got all comfortable
when guess what? No surprise really I was typing away when all of a sudden I
must have touched the track pad and moved the mouse pointer somewhere and that
in turn put me somewhere up at the top of the document again. I also get this
happening when I'm at college but luckly I have someone on hand a support
worker and they tell me that it has jumped up again or down or which ever way
you look at it. So for now I decided to go back to my main computer because
when I am typing on my own I will not notice it until I do a say all or arrow
and then I get completely confuse. So the question I would like to ask for
those who use laptops what is a recommended setting for jaws and the trackpad?
Is it best to either completely disable it or, ajust the sensitivity of it?
Even if I ajusted the sensitivity I would like to know what does this do to the
mouse pointer visually.
Also when all of you guys give your views, I would appreciate if you can out
line the steps that you take to perform the action.
I realise that this is not a nesacary jaws issue but it's one that I would
like to sort out and be more aware of because after all I would like to sit
somewhere else other than at my main computer and use a laptop to type without
the hassle of jumping cursers.
I look forward to your answers.
Thanks
Daniel
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