[laptop-accessibility] XO keyboard

[gabey8 at aol.com]

 Good idea -- they can probably tweak the keyboard membrane to add dots of some sort, the same way they have added them to the F and J keys so people can find home row by touch.

In the meantime, have you tried to add anything to the keys yourself? Have you run into issues with anything that doesn't want to adhere to the keyboard membrane? I've seen a bunch of things attached to standard keyboards, from little braille-label stickers to easily-noticed rubber dots, but those have all been put on garden-variety hard-plastic keycaps. Some of those items, particularly the somewhat inflexible rubber dots, might not work as well if they were put on a flexible membrane like the XO has.

Do you use a braille terminal or a screenreader to access the screen, or do you use large print?

Donna


 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Gorse <mgorse at mgorse.dhs.org>
To: accessibility at lists.laptop.org
Sent: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:07 pm
Subject: [laptop-accessibility] XO keyboard










A while ago, there was a thread on here about the keyboard / whether it 
would need modification to be used by blind students.  I got my XO and 
looked at the keyboard, counting 71 keys.  What I didn't know was that the 
three large buttons on the top row are each comprised of several distinct 
keys.  I would not have known this without having a sighted friend 
describe it to me.  There is no good way to tactily distinguish these keys 
from each other, and this is especially problematic for the middle button 
which is comprised of around seven keys.  I would suggest putting dots or 
other tactile marks either on the keys or on the frame directly above the 
keys.

Does anyone have any comments?

-- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --
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