From: Deedra Waters <curi0315@tampabay.rr.com>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: laptop keymaps for speakup
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:56:35 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1020627175429.999A-100000@deedra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206271644550.1431-100000@toccata.rednote.net>
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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