[nfbcs] Dell keyboards

[Steve Jacobson]

Another wrinkle is that laptops seem to not have the imbeded numeric keypad that was fairly common in the past.  I 
always preferred these to laptop layouts because the keystrokes were the same as long as one took into account the 
new location of the numeric keypad.  With Window-Eyes, the laptop layout works pretty well, though, but it does 
seem odd that it is found to be necessary to change keyboards.

There are also probrams and scripts around to toggle the NUM LOCK key that might have gotten around this.  

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson


On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:03:43 -0500, Rasmussen, Lloyd wrote:

>In other words, it was available through an item in the notification area or system tray, probably accessible 
with Windows-B or Insert-F11 (the JAWS keystroke).  Anyway, good luck with the replacement keyboard, and thanks 
for alerting us to this new wrinkle in computing.

>Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
>National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
>Library of Congress   202-707-0535
>http://www.loc.gov/nls
>The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
>Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:24 AM
>To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Dell keyboards

>We did call them up.  Apparently, the numlock is somewhere on the screen near the date/time.  However, we 
arranged to get a standard keyboard anyway.
>Tracy
>----- Original Message -----
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>Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 3:29 PM
>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Dell keyboards


>> Have you called them up and asked if there is a special key 
>> combination that handles this?  You might be surprised to find out 
>> that there is a way around this.
>>
>> Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer National Library Service for 
>> the Blind and Physically Handicapped
>> Library of Congress   202-707-0535
>> http://www.loc.gov/nls
>> The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those 
>> of the Library of Congress, NLS.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy 
>> Carcione
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 2:38 PM
>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>> Subject: [nfbcs] Dell keyboards
>>
>> I just found out that Dell is sending out keyboards with no numlock.  
>> It's impossible to turn numlock off and use the standard Jaws desktop commands.
>> Thanks Dell.  Now we have to make a keyboard swap and get them to send 
>> a standard keyboard for my husband's new PC.  There was no indication 
>> in the description of this substandard keyboard, either.
>> Just thought I'd warn anyone looking to buy a new Dell.
>> Tracy
>>
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