Hello everyone--I'm looking for an ergonomic keyboard I can use with
a broken arm. My fingers stick out of the end of the cast and I can
sort of wiggle them, maybe enough to type on a computer keyboard.
(I'm using one hand to type this, and it's slow and laborious.)
The one insurmountable problem: I can't rotate my forearm so that my
palm faces downward, so that I can actually type with my left hand.
To be usable, the keyboard would have to be tilted at a 45 to 90
degree angle (with the high point towards the center of the keyboard)
for the left hand, but with the right-hand portion of the keyboard
remaining flat, in the normal position.
I've seen pictures of odd-looking ergonomic keyboards IN TWO PARTS,
or that are tilted on an angle. (If a keyboard were in two parts, I
could use it at a normal angle for my right hand, but tilt it to a 45
or 90 degree angle for my left.) I've seen flexible keyboards in
stores, but I don't know if one of those flexible keyboards would
work if you bent it in the middle--or even if flexible keyboards
work well under any circumstances.
I really need to be able to type, because I got laid off and I need
to send out resumes and letters of application. For my own writing
and for first drafts, I can use Dragon Naturally Speaking; but I've
never gotten the error rate down to the point where I could use
Dragon for job application stuff.
Any suggestions? Do such keyboards exist, and if so, where can you
get them?
Thanks!
--Constance Warner
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