[NFBCS] Applications functions on a laptop

[Curtis Chong]

Tracy:

You could route the JAWS cursor to the item and simulate the Right Click
function with JAWS. This is not ideal, however. My guess is that somebody
needs to get into the BIOS of the laptop computer and change the function
keys to behave as function keys and not media keys. I usually suggest that
anybody buying a new laptop ensure that the seller performs this task since
the BIOS is not accessible to the blind.

Kindly,

Curtis Chong

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Subject: [NFBCS] Applications functions on a laptop

My husband's Windows laptop keyboard doesn't have an applications key.
Neither could I get Jaws right mouse click or shift-f10 to work.  Is there
another way to get at the menu I would get if I had the applications key? 

Alternatively, and maybe better, how can I be sure a connected keyboard has
an applications key before I buy it?  Is it just a standard thing on what I
think is called an enhanced keyboard?  

Well, to me it's a standard thing, but maybe not anymore.

Thanks.

Tracy

 

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