How about piece of plywood 3 ft. square with a U shape cut out of it ...
big enough for you and your chair... then place it on your desk with the
computer/ monitor and keyboard sitting on the part without the cutout.
It should "wrap" around you and provide support for your arm and cast.
If you make another cut out the shape and location of your keyboard, the
keyboard will be somewhat recessed and allow you to more easily place
your fingers on the keyboard.
Just an idea...
db
Constance Warner wrote:
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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