[Trainer-talk] One-handed keyboard software. Method recommended over pricey software.

[Kasondra Payne]

I have been typing eith one hand on a standard keybord for over 22 years.  I use my right hand, and I hahave been timed at over 40 words per minute.  I started typing on a righ-handed keybord, when I was a kid, but I felt like I was limiting myself.  I center my fingers on keys f through j, and I can reach almost anything I need to.  I have to change some jaws keystrokes, but they aren't that many.  I usually use JAWS IN LAPTOP KEYBOARD, and I find it works well for me.  I hope this helps someone.  

Kasondra Payne

-----Original Message-----
From: chris <chris at expressable.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:06 PM
To: trainer-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Trainer-talk] One-handed keyboard software. Method recommended over pricey software.

Hi,
 Besides sticky keys for hotkeys and toggle keys for sounds, there is
 half-qwerty software which flips a mirror image of the missing hands side of
 the keyboard to where the other hand is.  For example "J" becomes F when you
 hold down the spacebar as modifier key.  But it costs $695!  Read more at:
http://www.aboutonehandtyping.com/halfqwerty.html. 

 However, on the same very comprehensive site, one hand typist, Lilly
 Walters, suggests that children develop a method, which she teaches in an
 ebook, of one-handed typing over an alternative keyboard.  In two paragraphs
 here she states:
 "If you have good use of one hand, you must first try to learn a system that
 enables you to work study, and play on a standard, normal keyboard. This one
 hand typing system is called One Hand QWERTY. This method teaches the one
 hand user to type on a normal keyboard, with one hand, just as fast as he
 would on an adaptive keyboard.
 "Although, I often suggest the following Half QWERTY for the one handed user
 who knew how to type before their disability, I have a reservations. My
 research has shown that most people would rather be a very bad typist on a
 standard keyboard, than use something the others in their workplace are not
 using."
 -  Lilly Walters, International speaker, author, speakers bureau executive,
 and one hand typist.

 You may download samples of her tutorial or ebook at
http://one-hand-typing.typingstar.com/.  It costs $49.
 Sorry, but I'm just assuming it's accessible if your student is blind.

 To order the half-qwerty or ebook/software on one-handed typing, call
 909-398-1228 or E-mail Lilly at aboutonehandtyping.com.

 Finally, would Vista's voice recognition additionally alleviate some of the
 strain that may incur from single-handed activity? 

 Hope this helps.

 Chris Johnson
 Assistive Technology Specialist,
 expressABLE,
 920 Harrison Ave.,
 Loveland, CO 80537
 Phone & Fax: 970 612 0858
 Cell: 307 277 0582
 chris at expressable.org
  

 -----Original Message-----
 From: trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
 [mailto:trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Chip Johnson
 Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 2:22 PM
 To: List for teachers and trainers of adaptive technology
 Subject: [Trainer-talk] One-handed keyboard software

 I have a student who can only type with one hand. We have a Matias
 half-qwerty keyboard which works well but she'd like to be able to use her
 laptop without lugging around an extra keyboard. Does anyone know of
 software that would make the keyboard easily usable with only one hand?

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