<div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Do you use a braille terminal or a screenreader to access the screen, or do you use large print?<br>
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Donna<br>
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From: Mike Gorse <mgorse@mgorse.dhs.org><br>
To: accessibility@lists.laptop.org<br>
Sent: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:07 pm<br>
Subject: [laptop-accessibility] XO keyboard<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>A while ago, there was a thread on here about the keyboard / whether it <br>
would need modification to be used by blind students. I got my XO and <br>
looked at the keyboard, counting 71 keys. What I didn't know was that the <br>
three large buttons on the top row are each comprised of several distinct <br>
keys. I would not have known this without having a sighted friend <br>
describe it to me. There is no good way to tactily distinguish these keys <br>
from each other, and this is especially problematic for the middle button <br>
which is comprised of around seven keys. I would suggest putting dots or <br>
other tactile marks either on the keys or on the frame directly above the <br>
keys.<br>
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Does anyone have any comments?<br>
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