How would you go about turning off the mouse with Win. 7?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Focus issue Yes, you can turn it off. Go to control panel, mouse, hardware tab, properties, and find the disable radio button. Steve Lansing, MI ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:38 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Focus issue > Speaking of the mouse pad on laptops is there a way to turn this feature > off in settings? If I can turn it off then I can see if maybe I am the > cause of Jaws jumping around. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "wild.flower" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:40 PM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Focus issue > > >>I have had this happen to me off and on with the past few versions of >>JAWS. For me it is not a JAWS issue. I use a laptop and there is a touch >>pad for visual users to use to move the mouse around. There is also a >>small button just above that touch pad that turns this touch pad on and >>off. If I do not have the mouse touch pad turned off and I accidentally >>touch the pad while typing, browsing or anything else the cursor will jump >>focus and screw me all up and put me in a place I don't want to be. I >>found that as long as I keep the mouse touch pad turned off, I never have >>any problems keeping focus where I want it and everything works fine. I >>hope this helps. >> >> Your friend, >> Gena >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Deanne Miller" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:16 PM >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: [JAWS-Users] Focus issue >> >>> Sometimes when I'm writing an email, or writing in MS Word, the cursor >>> will jump and all of a sudden I'm typing in the middle of the previous >>> sentence or the previous paragraph. And I never know the cursor has >>> moved until I review my text and find it all mixed up. It doesn't >>> happen too often, but I can never figure out what makes the cursor jump >>> like that. Has anyone else experienced this and, if so, is there any way >>> to keep it from happening? >>> Thanks for any help, >>> Deanne >>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
