JAWS always defaults to the desktop layout. If you have a laptop without a number pad, you have to tell JAWS that you want the laptop layout. It doesn't automatically detect what kind of keyboard you have. That would be a nice feature though.
From: Brian Vogel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 5:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Improving my teaching approach and/or sensitivity On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 02:28 pm, Maria Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: I avoid the laptop keyboard like the plague and use an external keyboard on my laptop all the time. I refuse to learn two sets of JAWS commands. FYI, if your laptop keyboard has a number pad, and the applications/menu key [since some don't] then it is essentially the same as a desktop keyboard. All of my current students have laptops, but all of them also have full-sized keyboards with number pads, so the JAWS settings defaulted to desktop keyboard. It took me a while to figure that out at first, way back when. I couldn't understand why those *%$#* laptop keystrokes simply refused to work on the laptops I was dealing with. Then the light went on/the penny dropped. Brian
