Valid point.
In my case I simply turn off taps on the touchpad and leave it
working. I don't mind it being functional but I loath it when I
simply touch the pad and I end up clicking someplace I did not wish to.
Anyone sighted can still click by using the dedicated buttons.
At 10:36 PM 5/15/2010, Chip Orange wrote:
Well, how would they go about doing it without a mouse, and without window
eyes to do things like click for them or open the systray? it's not an easy
task to go into the systray and right click an icon and choose a choice, and
work your way through the touchpad configuration software to check a
particular checkbox to turn back on the mouse.
especially since, there's this other option, which only disables it when
window eyes is running? it's just perfect for our situation, and I was
hoping Dell had used that same touchpad on their netbooks.
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Barry [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 2:50 PM
To: Chip Orange; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Del netbook
I guess it would be insensitive to suggest that maybe the sighted person
using your netbook will just have to do a little extra work to get the
touchpad working again?
At 12:01 PM 5/15/2010, Chip Orange wrote:
>Yes, with my Dell you can turn the touchpad off, but then, it's very
>hard for a sighted user, using only the keyboard, to get it turned back
>on. It's not anything you can just turn off with a fn key combination on
the Dell.
>
>Chip
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin Barry [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 10:41 PM
>To: Chip Orange; [email protected]
>Subject: RE: Del netbook
>
>I can't speak for a Dell netbook but on all the notebooks I've owned
>you can turn the touchpad off, or just disable taps as I do, from it's
>own control panel usually found in the system tray.
>My Asus netbook also has a button to disable the touchpad.
>
>At 09:25 PM 5/14/2010, Chip Orange wrote:
> >I have a Dell notebook, and with it, you can set the touchpad to
> >automatically disable itself if it detects another pointing device;
> >luckily, it appears windoweyes counts as another pointing device, so
> >when WE is running, the touchpad won't work with this setting enabled.
> >hopefully you'll be able to find it on your netbook.
> >
> >Chip
> >
> >
> >________________________________
> >
> >From: edmund dunlop [mailto:[email protected]]
> >Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 5:33 AM
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: Re: Del netbook
> >
> >
> >Hi again GW staff and listers
> >
> >I have bought a Dell Inspiron 1012 Intel Atom N450 10.1" Netbook
> >250GB HDD, Bl and have it working apart from the switching off of the
> >toughch
>pad.
> >Does anyone know how to disable the touch pad using the "FN" key or
> >do I have to go into the setup.
> >
> >
> >Yours Sincerely
> >
> >
> >
> >Edmund Dunlop
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