Hi Margaret, There is a way to remove your mouse completely out of the way if you can spend a little money.
You go to a place like Staples and get a wireless mouse. It runs on two double A batteries and the receiver is plugged into a USB port. The wireless mouse has an on/off switch, so the batteries are not being used. This way you can put the mouse somewhere away from you and a sighted person or tech can just turn it on and do whatever. My wife uses one for her laptop and it has been very dependable. Hope this helps, Lennie At 03:42 AM 7/16/2007, you wrote: >Hi All, > > Is it possible to get some kind of extension cable that would make >the cable of the mouse for my XP Home with SP2 longer so I could get >it out of the way? The XP Home is the tower type that sits on the >floor and the mouse is only used by my tech or occasionally by sighted >people to get me out of a computer jam. Its cable doesn't seem to be >very long and I've tried to surround it with a tape dispenser and >stapler to keep from touching it and inadvertently causing the cursor >to move or the mouse to do who knows what, but the "cage" didn't work >recently and I think I accidentally hit the mouse when I was scanning >mail and I had a job to get JAWS and my keyboard to work together >properly again. Moving it as far as the cable will go so it is away >from the scanner puts it too near other computer stuff on the desk >where I can accidentally hit the mouse and doesn't solve the problem. >I've heard that some people somehow attach their mice to their >monitors so the rodents are out of the way, but the cable on this one >doesn't reach anywhere near the monitor and I don't understand how >they get the mouse attached even if it did. > > Thanks, > >Margaret > > >Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: >http://www.blind-computing.com >Address for the list archives: >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >To post to this group, send email to >[email protected] >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the >subject or body of a blank message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Use the following form in order to contact the management team >http://www.blind-computing.com/contact.php >If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >following address: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.blind-computing.com/contact.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
