The method I use to turn off the touchpad on my HP is, I believe, available
regardless of what brand of laptop you have, but I could be wrong. The
process I use is completely accessible to JAWS.
The steps below are for Windows 7, pro edition.
1. Press the windows search key, and enter "mouse " (without the quotes)
into the search box and press enter.
This takes me to the "mouse properties", which I assume is buried down
somewhere in the control panel, but I have no idea how to get to that
section other than as described above.
2. In the mouse properties screen, there are several menu tabs, starting
with the "buttons" tab. Go to the tab on the far right, "device settings".
The first thing you come to is a box that lists all the available devices
that it considers a mouse. On mine, the touchpad shows up as the only one.
If you have more than one showing, use the up/down arrow key to select the
touchpad. Press tab once, and you will be on the button you have been
seeking. That button should say "disable". Press on that button, and it
should then say "enable", because it has just turned off the mouse pad. On
my computer, there is also a plop or blurp sound which is the same one I get
when I plug in any USB device, or when I insert an SD card into the laptop's
slot. Tab to the "apply" button, then the "OK" button. That closes the
dialog box.
To turn the touchpad on, just repeat the above steps, changing that button’s
state from “disabled” to “enable.”
I suspect the reason that a function key command does not keep the touchpad
off is that Windows assumes you just want to disable the touchpad
temporarily, so it re-sets the mouse pad “enable button upon re-boot.
Windows makes it harder to make that change "permanent" so that folks don't
get stuck with having no mouse at all.
Tim Ford
-----Original Message-----
From: Dialup @ 56k
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 6:13 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Disabling the mousepad on a Dell laptop
As an after-thought, some laptops allow this function to be turned off
in the BIOS, but this is not only an inaccessible place for JAWS, but
not a place for inexperienced users, so you'll need someone who knows
exactly what they are doing to check for this.
There be Dragons !!
Glen
On 14-Feb-15 1:08 PM, Annette Carr wrote:
On my work Latitude 7440 UltraBook it is Function Key+F5. The first press
of this combination turns the touch pad off, the 2nd press turns the touch
pad on and the stick off, the 3rd turns them both off, and the 4th press
turns them both on. The only odd thing is that after I use Function
key+F5
to turn off the touch pad, somehow it is randomly turned back on. I'm
wondering if there is some type of gesture that turns it back on. I know
that sounds crazy since the touch pad is supposed to be turned off.
HTH,
Annette
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On
Behalf Of Arianna Calesso
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:43 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Disabling the mousepad on a Dell laptop
Does anyone know of a keystroke to disable or shut down the mousepad on a
Dell laptop? I don't even have to touch the thing for it to make the
cursor
jump away from the application I'm working in. I've tried Device Manager
and there was no disable button or else JAWS couldn't read it.
Thanks for any help.
Arianna
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