Re: recommended setting for jaws and touch pad on laptops?
- From: Daniel McGee <mc-g@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:20:04 +0100
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
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