[gui-talk] P.S. re flat typing surfaces (was still hassling, etc.)

Sat Jan 2 19:38:56 UTC 2010

Joel,

I'm laughing at how I use to type on my lap top at first: I put it on my 
desk, get on my knees as sitting in a chair seemed awkward and typed at the 
very most two words a minute with only twenty mistakes.  Smile  Crap it 
didn't take me long before I could type three words a minute with only ten 
mistakes.  I'm up to about fifty words a minute now with maybe a mistake or 
two so hang in there and yes I have graduated to using a chair now.  Yea, 
off my knee's but it took time.  and yes I used a desk top at that time too 
and could type thirty or so a minute but that darn lap top learning.

Keep the comments coming it brings back fond memories and sorry but a few 
laughs too.  Smile

David Wermuth
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 10:06 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] P.S. re flat typing surfaces (was still hassling, etc.)

> David,
>
> I forgot to mention that I do happen to have a fairly light but solid
> synthetic cutting board with non-skid rubber feet that holds my laptop
> precisely on my thighs.But my problem isn't really the laptop tilting or
> slipping on my legs. It's just the queer typing position it requires to 
> type
> that way. So "flat surface" swill have to translate for now into some sort
> of table or desk, not just any flat surface. Arghh.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "davidw" <dwermuth1 at earthlink.net>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 11:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Still hassling with my laptop keyboard
>
>
> Joel,
>
> At first and still today after using my lap top I still find it a bit
> awkward to type with it in my lap, or on my knee's.  I can do it but put 
> it
> on a hard surface and work from there.  Once you get comfortable with 
> typing
> then slowly introduce it back to your lap.
>
> I know it is called a "lap top" but I assure you that unless your on a bus
> or in a car most people use a table, coffee table, desk, it's much easier.
>
> Again Hang in there,
>
> David Wermuth
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 1:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Still hassling with my laptop keyboard
>
>
>> Hi Lloyd,
>>
>> I'm aware that there's an area faintly outlined by grooves in the central
>> area of that big flat hand rest slab beneath the keyboard area. I knew to
>> look out for it just from things people said on lists, and the sighted
>> friend who configured this particular Acer for me pointed out exactly
>> where
>> it was, disabled it partly in the bios (he's an I T professional, so he
>> knows what  he's doing) but warned me to simply keep my hands clear of 
>> the
>> area, no matter what. So far I've put in hours sitting with this machine
>> on
>> my knees and learning slowly to use it, and I've so far been entirely
>> successful in avoiding that patch that is the touch pad. I'm not
>> misspelling
>> words like that last one, just breaking them up so that Jaws doesn't
>> mispronounce them, which drives me nuts.
>>
>> Thanks for the warning, though. And Happy New Year!
>>
>> Joel
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at sprynet.com>
>> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 3:56 AM
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Still hassling with my laptop keyboard
>>
>>
>> The central part of that "hand rest" is probably a touchpad, which acts
>> like
>> a mouse.  If you haven't already done so, you need to deactivate it and
>> learn how to deactivate it in the future in case it decides to come back
>> to
>> life.  Clicking or touching in the wrong places can really mess you up.
>>
>> Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
>> Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
>> Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 1:08 AM
>>> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Still hassling with my laptop keyboard
>>>
>>> Ted,
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for the moral support. I've been putting in about an hour 
>>> of
>>> just practicing nearly every day, and I can see that I've begun to
>>> memorize
>>> and visualize (a formerly sighted person's habitual way of mapping 
>>> things
>>> the little keyboard, and I guess I'm making some progress. I'm still a
>>> long
>>> way from my fantasy of sitting back in an easy chair with the laptop on
>>> my
>>> knees and just typing away; even when I get more of the keyboard
>>> memorized,
>>> I know I'll probably always be struck by the feeling that it isn't a
>>> normal
>>> typist's keyboard. Wrong hand position, and that slab of "hand rest," I
>>> guess it's thought of, just screws things up if you're a serious typist.
>>> If
>>> children were all given their first piano lessons on something akin to
>>> this,
>>> not many of them would grow up to be serious pianists, I'm afraid.
>>>
>>> But I'll keep working at it and see if I can develop a level of skill 
>>> and
>>> comfort that's "good enough," to steal a phrase from psychology. The
>>> good-enough mother, it was.
>>>
>>> Thanks again for the moral support. I was starting to think I was really
>>> lame. Now I see it's truly difficult, but can be done if you're
>>> determined.
>>>
>>> Joel
>>
>>
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