Jonathan, Agree. I carry a small USB mouse with me when traveling so I don’t have to deal with the touch pad. When at home I have a USB MS-Natural keyboard. It’s hard for me to hold my hands up when typing on the lelaptop keyboard to avoid touching the touchpad with the heels of my palms. Wish there was a simpler way to disable the touchpad.
Dave Carlson Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer On May 17, 2021, at 8:38 PM, Jonathan Cohn <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, The only way to turn the touchpad truly off is to find the checkbox that says disable trackpad when an external mouse or trackpad is attached. Then, have a handy bluetooth mouse that you turn on when you want the pad disabled. This checkbox is in the accessibility settings area of System Preferences. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On May 17, 2021, at 06:36, Ian Harrison <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Dear listers, > > I am now sharing my new Air with my wife. I am blind and she isn’t. She likes > to use the touchpad but I don’t and I keep accidentally touching it by > accident when using voiceover. How can I turn off the touchpad on the fly > without going into preferences every time? > > With many thanks > Ian > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can > reach Cara at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/37828AA4-6C09-4949-8515-941B4B7B5DFE%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/603C1897-9AE1-469B-87C8-48225E7CEE7B%40gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/603C1897-9AE1-469B-87C8-48225E7CEE7B%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/91B13107-BD09-4550-99E9-4F5BE33B02D7%40gmail.com.
