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12-09-2012, 06:35 AM | #1 | ||
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There's a good chance that everyone else in the forum knows this already. In which case, please accept my apologies. But, in case there's others like me who find it difficult to type, and who haven't realised that the Accessibility settings in Windows can help them, they are worth looking at.
For instance, when I'm "off" I type with one finger, which is a problem if you want to type $. You can get around this in Windows 7 (I suspect it's much the same in all versions) by: Start (icon normally bottom left) Control Panel Ease of Access Change how your keyboard works Turn on Sticky Keys Apply Now to type $, say, you press shift and let it go. Then, when you press the 4 key, you get "upper case 4", which is $, as required. This setting makes more than the shift key sticky. For instance, the Ctrl key is sticky, so to save a file, you can press the Ctrl key followed by s; the Alt key is sticky, so to close a window you can press the Alt key followed by the F4 key; the Windows key (the key on the bottom row that looks like a flag in a circle) is sticky, so to move a window to the left press the Windows key followed by the left arrow key. I also have problems with keys being wrongly repeated. For instance, I want to type the word forum but I get fooorum. Or when going back to correct the mistake I overrun, deleting good text as well as bad. To reduce this problem, you can slow the speed at which the cursor moves. From where we were above: Click on the Keyboard settings link near the bottom. On the Keyboard Properties tab you can increase the "Repeat Delay" and reduce the "Repeat Rate" by moving the sliders to the left. (I find about a quarter of the way from the left gives me the best results.) Apply OK Has anyone else got typing tips? John
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12-09-2012, 08:01 AM | #2 | |||
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12-09-2012, 02:04 PM | #3 | ||
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Songfellow,
Thanks for that tip. I tried the voice recognition software that comes with Windows 7. But after a hour going through the training exercises, I seemed to have made little progress. Is a hour far too short a time? As an indication of my progress, here's the last verse and chorus to a famous English folk song that I spoke, not sung, very slowly: Cherwell run will roads and ranting you all All are written recklessly Between old and rare outings clear and mountains The great Loa" and state Umpteen gradient galley Telling it like a real thing Instrument autonomy and tins A kink I would rather be dead A malevolent a remnant on mentions dwelling A giggle at leisure there aren't more and why A Arabia weight late on Monday But I'm three men on Sunday Kudos to the first person to name the song. John
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01-22-2013, 03:59 AM | #4 | ||
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One of my PD problems is that when my tremor is bad moving the mouse accurately is difficult.
There's a neat, free piece of software that can reduce the problem. It can be downloaded from: http://www.steadymouse.com/ I'm always relectant to download software off the web in case it contains viruses. However, I've had no problems with steadymouse. It's written by a guy called Ben Gottemoller, to whom goes my thanks. John
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11-29-2013, 03:05 PM | #5 | ||
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Further typing tips.
As my PD progresses it becomes worth learning more and more keyboard short-cuts. There are hundreds of them,but here are just 5 from Windows 7 (other operating systems will almost certainly have similar features): Ctrl-A (control and A at the same time) select all Ctrl-C copy Ctrl-V paste Windows-up arrow (the key with a flag inside a circle and the key to the right of the shift key) resize window to whole screen Windows-right arrow resize window to right half of screen I use a lap-top with a touchpad (NOT a touch screen). When I'm "off" I find moving the mouse pointer accurately enough difficult. It varies from minute to minute, but I find using a mixture of a finger, as normal, and a homemade stylus helps. The stylus is made from a used AA battery with a piece of conducting cloth running from the middle of one side over the positive stud to the middle of the other side. The cloth is taped in place. John PS no one has come up with a song title for what gave the voice recognition output. A clue: a British "This land is your land"?
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12-04-2013, 03:19 PM | #6 | ||
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Its a major annoyance to me, as I was a good typist before (60-70 wpm), Now it looks like it was done by a "break dancing chicken".
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11-17-2017, 02:15 AM | #8 | ||
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I've just come across some software that lets you move the mouse cursor by moving your head:
Camera Mouse It does this by using a laptop's webcam to detect head movements. It is free. My thanks go to the people at Boston College who have made this possible. John PS no one has yet identified the English folk song that I put through voice recognition software. Another clue: it was written by the husband of the sister of a person who helped inaugurate Obama.
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