Daniel Pittman wrote: > Oh, so you might think! Not so much, if you were to (for example) play > some sort of computer game that uses the shift or control key to perform > some sort of action. > > In that case, if you were to hit it five times in quick succession, you > would be treated to a wonderful pop-up asking if you would like to turn > on keyboard assistance for the disabled.
It gets better. Under some circumstances -- the precise details elude me, as I haven't used Windows as a primary environment for some time now -- you merely have to hold the shift key down for a few seconds to trigger the popup -- it seems that some keyboards, or some keyboard drivers, or some other part of the chain of hatefulness sees that as a rapid set of keypresses... -- * Matt McLeod | mail: [email protected] | blog: http://abortrephrase.com/ * --- People can do the work, so machines have time to think ---
