[laptop-accessibility] XO keyboard

[linaccess at yokoy.de]

hi,
maybe you could vulcanize the keyboard rubber (like a inner tube from a bicycle). It should work.
if you want to glue things to another, take a look here.
http://www.thistothat.com/
http://www.thistothat.com/cgi-bin/glue.cgi?lang=en&this=Rubber&that=Rubber

it is far from being complete but a good starting point.

have a nice day,
yokoy

On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:12:10 -0500
gabey8 at aol.com wrote:

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>  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.
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> 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.
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> Do you use a braille terminal or a screenreader to access the screen, or do you use large print?
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Does anyone have any comments?
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