Raul,
You mention in your post below that the differences between one
netbook and another comes in where the mouse left click, right click,
drag and drop and other mouse moovment keys are located on the
metbook keyboard. That is assuming I opt not to add a number pad to
the mix. Is it that Window-Eyes designates where these keys will end
up being on the keyboard, or are you talking about where these keys
are physically located on the keyboard and if they are located in a
convenient mannor. I'm wondering how I would be able to figure out
the conveniency of key location without first being able to load
Window-Eyes onto these machines. I don't have big hands and I was
thinking that, if the keys are inconveniently located, a stretch may
end up being too cumbersome to deal with over and over. However,
because of the key size, I would prefer the HP Netbook over the
others. I say that I don't have big hands, but they are not so small
either and would want to have something relatively simular to a full
sized keyboard as possible. I have been to a local Best Buy store
and felt the HP Asus and the Acer and I like the HP for key size, at
least in an on the spot comparison of how the different keyboards
feel, but after seeing your post below, I'm not sure how I should go
about figuring out which one will work the best with WE. Perhaps the
2% difference between the HP and the Asus really won't make that much
of a difference for what I would be using the unit for, note taking,
some emailing and web browsing and doing a home Bible study from the
Online Bible.
On another note, I am a loyal Window-Eyes user since 1991 so I am
relying on your answers herein as a knowledgable Window-Eyes
user. From a technical standpoint, is there one or two of these mini
machines that will shine brighter as a home for Window-Eyes 7.x? All
things being equal, then I need to figure out which keyboard is the
most logically layed out and easiest to navigate WE commands and
screen accessibility. I am in school now and our local State agency
will soon be upgrading my Window-Eyes 5.5 version and doing some
other things for me to accommidate the schooling, which in fact I am
not getting a netbook for. I am a local piano tuner and I would like
to have something portable for invoicing and other things for that
work as well.
Thanks for answering all of my concerns above for me.
Blessings,
John
At 08:40 AM 2/23/2009, you wrote:
Hello. Unfortunately there is not other than searching this archive
for the basics, and to use the Window-Eyes key describer. However
the following is a basic list. For more specifics, you will have to
play around a little with the key describer.
While holding the fn-key down the following keys are the number pad
equivalently.
m 0
j 1
k 2
l 3
u 4
i 5
o 6
7 7
8 8
9 9
Where it gets different is the 4 keys to the right side of these.
The keys I'm talking about are the 0 p semi and slash keys.
Sometimes going from top to bottom they are number pad plus minus
star and slash. However on my netbook they are different. I had to
just use the key describer to figure it out. The cool thing is that
on my netbook, the slash is the slash so that makes it easy to
remember. If I need to do a left click, I hold down fn-key-slash and
that does the number pad slash key, giving me a left click. If I
want to read the current line of the cursor, normally
control-numpad-5, I hold fn-key-control-i.
Hope this helps.
Millie's Mom wrote the following on 2/21/2009 10:58 PM:
Is there somewhere I can find a list of which keys do what when
using the FN-Key. I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro. I checked out
the user's manual, and well, it tells you all about the FN-Key and
what everything doses, but Window-Eyes reads the PDF document just
fine--just not all the little pictures that are on the keys.
Do the FN-Key functions change from labtop model to laptop model,
or are they fairly consistent from laptop to laptop?
I know which keys are supposed to be the numpad keys, but which key
is the numbers lock??? Also, does it default to on or off each
time you restart, or is it just set to whatever it was on last?
Thanks in advance to anyone to can help!
Theresa
----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]>
To: "GW Info Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: Laptop question
Hello Bob, you will want to check out appendix a of the Window-Eyes
manual which shows the layout for the various keyboards. I personally
use the default layout and make extensive use of the fn-key which is the
second key from left to right on the bottom left part of your keyboard.
Manny thanks.
bob jutzi wrote the following on 2/20/2009 4:58 PM:
OK, I just bought an Asus netbook, installed Window-eyes, and changed to
Laptop keyboard layout. How do I activate my WE cursor in order to
manually read the screen?
Not sure as I never extensively used a laptop until now.
Bob
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