Re: Orca on laptops.

["Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz gmail com>]

In light of everything I've read in this thread, I guess  then my personal 
preferences would be as follows:

On a laptop, I would want the caps lock as the modifier key.  If the caps 
lock were depressed, then the right half of the qwerty keyboard would behave 
as a number pad, similar to what happens on most laptops if the FN key is 
held down.  So for instance, m  comma period slash would equal prior 
character, current character, next character, where am I, etc.

For those who would prefer to use a modifier on the right side of the 
keyboard, the num pad functionality could be reversed and made available on 
the left hand.  Also, there should probably be an option to make the 
modifier sticky, for those who only have use of one hand.

--Al


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joanmarie Diggs" <j-diggs comcast net>
To: <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
Cc: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>; "'Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing 
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Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Orca on laptops.


> > So does that basically mean this whole discussion of orca on laptops is
> > moot, or at least addressed fully via orca.settings.orcaModifierKeys
> > (possibly with a UI for changing it easily) ?
>
> I don't think the "whole discussion" is moot.  The discussion up to this
> point has been around the modifier key (which I, for one, do think is
> addressed). Now the question is what keys to use *with* that modifier
> for performing flat review, whereAmI, etc. since we are lacking a
> keypad.
>
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