laptop keymaps for speakup

laptop keymaps for speakup

[Deedra Waters]

I know someone toldme that they had one. I've sorta hit a crisis and I
really need one as soon as  possible. the laptop I have will work fine
with linux so that isn't a problem the problem is that it doesn't have  a
normal keyboard port, or if it does it's not accessible. if someone could
help me with this I'd really appreciate it.

Re: laptop keymaps for speakup

[Janina Sajka]

yDedra:

Do you have two alt keys? There's a keymap that distinguishes
between them so that you can get different functions from the
right and left alt keys.

Also, does your portable have a ps2 connection port? Often, in
order to attach a qwerty keyboard, you can't just plug it into
this port, you must get a y connector to pass the keyboard
through. This is the way it works with all of the IBM Thinkpads
I've had, including this one I'm writing on now as the conference
I'm attending proceeds.

Yes, I'm on an ethernet connection in a hotel during a meeting
with my Thinkpad.

By the way, we lost something when our screen review went to
numlock off. I think, Mr. Kirk, I'd like to protest and ask for
reconsideration on that.

Here's the problem.

I have no way to get screen review, because I didnot bring a 104
keyboard with y connector, and I also didn't bring along an
external numeric keypad. While this machine, and many others like
it, will supply a pop up numeric, it will not supply the home,
end, page up, page down, etc. functions of the numeric. There's
no use for them and they're not available. Having speakup's
review mapped this way effectively means no screen review on a
portable, at least most of the portables I know.


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				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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Re: laptop keymaps for speakup

[Deedra Waters]

Janina yes, it looks like this has two alt keys. I've got to get sited
help to help me install redhat on this as 1 I don't know the laptop
keyboard, and 2 with out screen review functions or a normal keyboard I
have no clue how to get this thing to work. though from looking at the
keyboard I think it has two alt keys.


On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> yDedra:
> 
> Do you have two alt keys? There's a keymap that distinguishes
> between them so that you can get different functions from the
> right and left alt keys.
> 
> Also, does your portable have a ps2 connection port? Often, in
> order to attach a qwerty keyboard, you can't just plug it into
> this port, you must get a y connector to pass the keyboard
> through. This is the way it works with all of the IBM Thinkpads
> I've had, including this one I'm writing on now as the conference
> I'm attending proceeds.
> 
> Yes, I'm on an ethernet connection in a hotel during a meeting
> with my Thinkpad.
> 
> By the way, we lost something when our screen review went to
> numlock off. I think, Mr. Kirk, I'd like to protest and ask for
> reconsideration on that.
> 
> Here's the problem.
> 
> I have no way to get screen review, because I didnot bring a 104
> keyboard with y connector, and I also didn't bring along an
> external numeric keypad. While this machine, and many others like
> it, will supply a pop up numeric, it will not supply the home,
> end, page up, page down, etc. functions of the numeric. There's
> no use for them and they're not available. Having speakup's
> review mapped this way effectively means no screen review on a
> portable, at least most of the portables I know.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 	
> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Technology Research and Development
> 				Governmental Relations Group
> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> 
> Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> 
> Chair, Accessibility SIG
> Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
> http://www.openebook.org
> 
> 
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Re: laptop keymaps for speakup

[Toby Fisher]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Deedra Waters wrote:

> I know someone toldme that they had one. I've sorta hit a crisis and I
> really need one as soon as  possible. the laptop I have will work fine
> with linux so that isn't a problem the problem is that it doesn't have  a
> normal keyboard port, or if it does it's not accessible. if someone could
> help me with this I'd really appreciate it.

Deedra,
I find that the normal Speakup keymap works fine with my lap top for most
if not all functions, you just have to hold down the function key all the
time, to get numpad functionality, which in some ways is better than the
desk top cos you don't need to take your fingers from the home keys to do
it.

Cheers.

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