Jewel:
Yes, you would probably need to enable the touch pad for a sighted person,
but it's pretty easy to do that. Simply go to Mouse properties, Device
Settings, and press the Enable button. When the sighted person is finished
using your laptop, simply disable it again. I haven't disabled mine,
though. I set the sensitivity very low so it takes a pretty heavy touch to
move the mouse pointer. So far, this has kept me from accidentally
triggering the mouse pointer and unintentionally changing the focus.
I'm fairly certain that the touch pad is not responsible for the issue of
changing focus in a text document because it never happens at any other
time. When the sensitivity is set too high, my laptop would switch from my
email inbox to my desktop, for example, and I would have to alt tab back to
my inbox. This never happens now that I have it set to low sensitivity, yet
the cursor sometimes jumps around when I'm typing text. Hmmm.
Deanne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jewel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Focus issue
If I were to disable the mouse pad thingie, if a sighted person was to
need to use my machine, I
would have to enable it again wouldn't I as sighted people, generally, are
lost if they haven't got
access to mouse functions.
Jewel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deanne Miller" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 1:35 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Focus issue
Josh:
On my XP machine, I found the disable button in the control pannel under
mouse, Device Settings. Pressing enter on Mouse should automatically open
the mouse properties. Control Tab to the Device Settings page. Tab to
disable and press Enter. Alternatively, you can tab to settings, press
Enter, arrow down to Sensitivity, right arrow to open the submenu, arrow
down to Touch Sensitivvity, press tab and arrow to the left to make the
touch pad less sensitive. The smaller the numbers, the less sensitive the
touch pad. Tab again and it should say something like Heavy Touch. Tab
again and press Enter on Okay, and your touch pad will be much less likely
to pick up on you lightly touching it by mistake, or sense your wrist
moving
over the top of it.
Just a side note: you can sometimes find the pointing device in your
system
tray. Press enter on it, Enter again on properties, Control tab to Device
Settings, and you're in the same menu to either disable it or change the
sensitivity.
Hope this helps,
Deanne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:38 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]
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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
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