Re: recommended setting for jaws and touch pad on laptops?
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:22:38 -0800
Any such keystroke is likely to be specific to the laptop manufacturer
and possibly even the particular laptop model.
On 4/21/11, Yadiel Sotomayor <yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No that I know of. Jaws is design to work completely without the mouse
> pointer unlike Apple's VoiceOver that uses the mouse in a way that a blind
> person can use it. So since jaws doesn't use the mouse pointer there is no
> keystroke. However, I could be wrong.
>
>
> From: Daniel McGee
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:20 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: recommended setting for jaws and touch pad on laptops?
>
>
> WOW many thanks for all of your answers. I have now disabled my trackpad and
> I tryed moving my finger around it and yeah there was no speach from jaws. I
> even went so far as to press the right click button on my laptop no context
> menu either it's completely disabled! It's great but I have just one more
> question.
> I can enable it again no problem through the system tray icon and all that
> but I was wondering is there any key command where one can press a key
> stroke and it's turned back on? This might come in handy for when I'm typing
> at college and say a dialog box comes up for no apparent reason and say a
> jaws user couldn't get to it so a sighted user has to click it to make it go
> away. That is just an example because then the jaws user could just press
> the keystroke combernation to turn itit on or off. Rather than having to go
> through all the properties to just enable it again.
> I know it's one of thos questions but if it's possable to turn on or off
> with a key command then that would be great!
> Once again my mmake is a Toshiba Laptop.
> Thanks for all your help people.
> Daniel
>
>
> From: Yadiel Sotomayor
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:52 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: recommended setting for jaws and touch pad on laptops?
>
>
> On the touch stick you mentioned dave, my HP laptop has a little nub of
> robber on the keyboard that works like a mouse. What I did was just to cut
> it off. Very anoying indeed.
>
>
> From: Farfar Carlson
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 10:02 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: recommended setting for jaws and touch pad on laptops?
>
>
> I had a sighted person completely disable the touchpad and buttons in the
> BIOS. The Dell mouse settings would not disable both the touch pad and the
> touch stick, so had to go to BIOS to get the job done. Never have a problem
> with it, but sighted users freak out when they try to use my laptop and get
> no mouse action at all.
>
> Dave
> Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio
> Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Daniel McGee
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:55
> 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
> Yadiel J. Sotomayor
>
> E-MAIL: yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Yadiel J. Sotomayor
>
> E-MAIL: yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx
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