Re: Learning Jaws and the Keyboard
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Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS)
I never knew any way to learn touch typing except through orderly
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repetition. Our typing teacher taught us the home keys, the home row, and we gradually expanded from there until we could access the entire keyboard--rather like learning Morse one character group at a time. Of course, these were the old black and gray Royals--and I mean old! If we could do that in 1963, I'm sure she'll do fine. Ted -----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounces@... [mailto:jfw-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Matt Dierckens Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 1:13 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: Learning Jaws and the Keyboard Hi, There is a great program by American Printing House for the Blind caled Talking Typer. THis is a great resource for teaching children how to type. I'm not sure how much it is as an old teacher of mine had it installed on my computer for me at the time. Hope this helps a little, Cheers. Matt Sent from my macbook pro On 2012-03-06, at 1:02 PM, Richard Holloway wrote: I am a typically sighted parent of a blind child (age 9). I interactwith many other parents of blind children and could use some advice for my child and to share with other parents. by a few months of age. She learned braille from the start and learned to type on a perkins brailler first, then started to learn qwerty. She much prefers to use a braille keyboard on her computer and notetaker (Apex) as well, keeping a qwerety keyboard plugged in on her computer for occasional use for certain keys and functions. to use a qwerty keyboard; to do this most efficiently? Is it using JAWS feedback with the repeating of characters verbally as typed? What about the braille key caps, or at least braille stickers for keys? (I have never yet found a USB braille key capped keyboard, only an old PS-2 style unit) I get that touch typing and just pressing down on braille key caps would be of little use braille-wise, but is is like for sighted typists, in that it helps get reoriented when your fingers move or you get distracted, etc., and just to learn qwerty in the beginning? It would be easy enough to remove the braille and go with a standard keyboard later on-- conventional keyboards are cheap. typically-sighted) parents that braille caps are a great idea vs. how bad of an idea they are to use. I'm not trying to sit in either camp-- I'm wondering which seems to help (and curious about any suggestions of the best ways to learn qwerty typing without vision). JAWS-related, obviously. Please do feel free to reply directly if you prefer. Your response may be valuable to quite a few parents of younger, keyboard-learning braille computer users, so thanks for any experience you may be able to share. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20 120306/638f4711/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@... http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com |
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