Yes I know it does and I know that system access has one of the better mouse systems. And I know that Jaws also has all kinds of ways to move the mouse. What I am saying is when you have a Mac book pro the touch pad becomes a very nice tool to scroll through web pages, tab through forms, check status do all kinds of things including enumerate windows that are open. You can even spatially tell where things are on the screen by moving around with the touch pad. I can see no reason why the screen readers on windows cannot use the multi touch pads of the notebooks. Oh wait yes I can they are all too busy making useless features like research and chat and things. ken From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rasmussen, Lloyd Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 9:17 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Limiting mouse movement to specific axes - vertical, horizontal, or maybe diagonal Window-Eyes has a function for limiting mouse movement to vertical or horizontal directions. I don't see it used very often by anyone, and people have probably forgotten that it exists. Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Library of Congress 202-707-0535 http://www.loc.gov/nls The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS. From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jacob Kruger Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:39 AM To: Rasmussen, Lloyd; ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Limiting mouse movement to specific axes - vertical, horizontal, or maybe diagonal I know this is a little off-topic, but just thinking that sometimes, in some types of situations, it might be useful/nice to use a physical mouse, but maybe limit the cursor movement to only vertical, horizontal, or diagonal axes, etc., and aside from handling mouse movement in certain specific apps, and then sort of correcting it, I was just wondering if there might be some utilities etc. out there to help you handle this easily enough, and, while I can make use of the jaws cursor to do this, and in fact made real use of drag and drop just the other day for the first time using the jaws cursor, this type of thing might also be nice to be able to use sometimes when jaws isn't active as such. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'