Oh, absolutely! I have heard a number of trainers tell people that they had to 
have a number pad for JAWS to work properly. I'm glad you're not doing this. By 
the way, on the point of touch screens, I think JAWS does disable all other 
gestures but its own. My husband has tried to use my touch screen with JAWS 
running, and normal gestures do not work much to his frustration. There are 
actually many JAWS users out there who are using tablets with bluetooth 
keyboards because it's a cheap computer. I've taught a couple of people to do 
this, and it has worked quite well for their needs. I certainly don't mean to 
be hard on you. I just don't like to see people misinformed.

 

From: Brian Vogel [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 11:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Views on Keyboard Shortcuts to teach or, perhaps, emphasize when 
teaching

 

Londa,

         Off forum, were I ever to have a client with a device that comes with 
a keyboard without a number pad I'd be using the laptop keystrokes with them 
out of necessity.  I just tend to teach to match that individual's hardware.  I 
make them aware that there are dedicated laptop keystrokes in case they ever 
find themselves doing a switch to that sort of laptop, but I don't teach those 
because I can't see the point at the time that they don't have to use them (and 
we've got the desktop ones for them to master).

Brian



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