[nfb-db] Trying to use the computer with just a Keyboard

[April Brown]

       I have no background in keyboard shortcuts at all.  I know CTRL C,
CTRL V, and CTRL D.  For some reason, whenever I've tried to do others, they
do really strange things.  Deleting documents and programs.  
      I saved off a couple of lists, and highlighted ones I think I would
use regularly.  Like my Dashboard, I think it's best if I try to learn one
or two at a time until I am comfortable with them. On good vision days,
magnification works.  On bad days, I can't see words on the screen. 
       I am working on paperwork to get straining with the state in tech and
mobility.  My hearing has always been low, and now my vision is almost gone
in the last year.  While waiting on them, I'm learning what I can.

 

     I'll try keyboard directions a few at a time.  I plan to start Braille
in January.  This has been difficult for me.  If I had learned it three
decade ago, it would be so much easier.

 

 

     And yet, years ago, I learned HTML easily.  Surely, if I can learn
HTML, I can learn this.  I still remember a good bit of HTML too.

 

Hi Gene Richburg, I use a laptop.  I don't know those combinations.  Thank
you very much.

 

Hi Dr. Denise M Robinson, I will check and see if JAWs is in laptop mode.

 

Hi Gerardo Corripio,  I would be glad to learn about a Braille display.  I
have begun this vision loss journey a year ago.  I still have some useable
vision.  I plan to fully begin Braille training in January.  I only have the
Foundation alphabet cards right now.  And I can barely feel the dots.  Not
sure they are set up like regular Braille print is.  They seem too small to
me.  I can't tell the dots apart.

Hi Scott Davert, The more I'm trying, and waiting on paperwork processing
for training, I am building my own learning process.   Thank you for any
list that can help me.  When I worked, I was always considered OCD, and
would have my entire workday (login buttons and all) written up so I
wouldn't get anything out of order.  I have never used keyboard shortcuts,
so better start learning the simple ones first, integrating them into my
daily routine.  Thanks, and I will save and practice using the keyboard this
weekend.

 

April Brown

 

Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.

 

 



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