I thought that perhaps the laptop was borrowed by a friend or one of her sighted children and that they may have reactivated the touchpad without letting her know.
Andy -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 9:13 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [JAWS-Users] Is it my laptop keyboard or Jaws? (edited) How about the Fn key? Does it have special functions with several of the other keys? Might you have turned it on again, having previously disabled it? (That, or a dirty klaptop keyboard, would not affect the use of an external keyboard.) I'm currently getting my Toshiba laptop keyboard repaired/replaced. Evbentually it began to beep after the Windows startup. Just before that began to hapen, for about half an hour it wouldn't respond to anything I tried to do on it. The laptop works fine with an external keyboard. -----Original Message----- From: Sherri Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 12:23 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Is it my laptop keyboard or Jaws? (edited) I have had this laptop for years ande have never had this problem. What I haven't tried is turning Jaws off with a sighted person to see if it still does not function correctly. I can't even access the desktop. It's very strange. Sherri Brun NFBF Newsline Chair flmom2...@gmail.com Character is the side of yourself you choose to show the world. Integrity is what you do, what you say and how you act when you think no one is paying attention. ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Scorpio Forever" <scorpio...@gmail.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Is it my laptop keyboard or Jaws? (edited) Hi Sherri, It's most likely the touch pad located just below your keyboard. You have to turn the touch pad sensitivity level down, so it's not picking up your palm movements and the like. Alternatively, you can turn the touch pad completely off, but if sighted users use the laptop also, this may present a problem for them when they go to use the computer, though some laptops have a hotkey to turn the touch pad on and off. Alternatively, you can tape a piece of paper over the touch pad, so that your hand isn't making contact with the pad itself. This is what a friend of mine did, it it turned out to be successful. If you need more information on how to perform the above tasks, send us your laptop manufacturer, model and if possible, your serial number, and someone, more than likely me, can send you the relevant text from your laptop's manual. Well, except for the taping part, that one you'll have to manage on your own. LOL. Hope this helps. Scorpio 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/
