I just bought a Lenovo Thinkpad with a numberpad. It's thinner and somewhat
lighter than my Dell that doesn't have one. But the keys are all squished
together, so you have to watch out when you use it. The other thing that is
annoying is that it has that awful finger print thing that's in the middle
of everything and things happen when you accidentally touch it. Pam.
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From: Chip Orange via Talk
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 12:04 PM
To: don bishop ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: RE: laptops and window-eyes
Hi Don,
While Marilyn's point is a nice one, and I have such a Dell laptop at home
with a numpad, it weighs about 5 pounds. If you want one which weighs
around 2 pounds which you can easily carry around with you, I don't believe
it will be possible to get one with a numpad on the keypad.
Marilyn's suggestion of carrying around an external numpad is one way of
dealing with this, but as she says, an awkward one. It's not the only one
however; Window-Eyes does offer a laptop keyboard layout specifically for
those keyboards which don't have numpads. They move all the functions which
would be handled by a numpad on to other keys.
Alternatively, instead of using the WE laptop layout, almost all laptops
have a special key which make a group of keys centered around the j, k, and
l keys act like they are a numpad when you hold down this special key. This
is how I used WE with my previous Dell laptop which was smaller, and which
did not have a numpad on its keyboard. I found this very easy to adapt to
(actually easier than switching to the laptop layout), although you may need
some sighted help (or support help from the manufacturer) initially to find
the special key, and to know what keystrokes it generates when used with
other keyboard keys.
So, it all depends on what your needs are, and which keyboard you wish to
purchase, and how you wish to adapt to not having a numpad if you want the
smaller laptops; but don't think you could ever adjust to some different
layout, it's much easier than you'd believe.
Hth,
Chip
Chip Orange
Florida Public Service Commission
Computer Systems Analyst
850-413-6314
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Subject: laptops and window-eyes
Any suggestions for a laptop which works well with window-eyes?
Thanks,
Don
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