On top of that, I had to find out how to change the action of the function
keys, because the default was different. For anybody who has this, my tech
found out that it is a toggle of function key escape that does this.
Anyway, the configuration being different, there is a touchpad, but no six
pack. The page up and down are to the left and right of the up arrow,
making that look like a six pack, and the rest of the sixpack are in a row
along the top. So when I use it, I have to do it slowly and be careful.
Pam.
-----Original Message-----
From: Raj via Talk
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 3:40 PM
To: Rick Jarvis ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: laptops and window-eyes
I know, the Lenovo is not the best one for us, I use to work with some of
the clients who had them, and had to advise the company/supplier to change
it. was a nightmare for some people.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Jarvis via Talk" <[email protected]>
To: "Pamela Dominguez" <[email protected]>; "Window-Eyes Discussion List"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: laptops and window-eyes
Is there any way to disable it?
On 11/2/2015 12:24 PM, Pamela Dominguez via Talk wrote:
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.
-----Original Message----- 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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