[gui-talk] Still hassling with my laptop keyboard

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

The central part of that "hand rest" is probably a touchpad, which acts like
a mouse.  If you haven't already done so, you need to deactivate it and
learn how to deactivate it in the future in case it decides to come back to
life.  Clicking or touching in the wrong places can really mess you up.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 1:08 AM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Still hassling with my laptop keyboard
> 
> Ted,
> 
> Thanks a lot for the moral support. I've been putting in about an hour of
> just practicing nearly every day, and I can see that I've begun to
> memorize
> and visualize (a formerly sighted person's habitual way of mapping things
> the little keyboard, and I guess I'm making some progress. I'm still a
> long
> way from my fantasy of sitting back in an easy chair with the laptop on my
> knees and just typing away; even when I get more of the keyboard
> memorized,
> I know I'll probably always be struck by the feeling that it isn't a
> normal
> typist's keyboard. Wrong hand position, and that slab of "hand rest," I
> guess it's thought of, just screws things up if you're a serious typist.
> If
> children were all given their first piano lessons on something akin to
> this,
> not many of them would grow up to be serious pianists, I'm afraid.
> 
> But I'll keep working at it and see if I can develop a level of skill and
> comfort that's "good enough," to steal a phrase from psychology. The
> good-enough mother, it was.
> 
> Thanks again for the moral support. I was starting to think I was really
> lame. Now I see it's truly difficult, but can be done if you're
> determined.
> 
> Joel