I will ask a direct question, then.  I have a single computer in my home.  Do you have parental controls installed on your computers; for the occasions your grand children visit?  If not, how do you prevent them from using your computers to visit unwanted sites?  Or from accessing social media sites on your computers.  I just thought the easiest way to prevent such unfortunate behaviors from occurring was to be able to prevent the grand children from employing the use of the mouse.  While not inconveniencing  a keyboard user to terribly much.  I don’t want to inconvenience myself to much just to prevent the undesired use of occasional users.   

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Hi, I had a student in one of my high school classes that use to sit behind me and loudly point out my spelling mistakes to all the class. At the time I didn’t have an option of a screen shade and I was using a magnifier rather then a screen reader. Since I didn’t need to read what I was typing at the time I turned my font into one that displayed only shapes. However, when the teacher next came by they asked me to go back to normal font so they could see what I was doing. The screen was one that you couldn’t read easily from the side but since the student was sitting directly behind me she had no issues seeing the screen. I think in the end I just lowered the screen a bit so it couldn’t be easily seen by the other student. I was taught touch typing at an early age so most of the time I didn’t need to see what I was typing so I didn’t need to see the screen. At least this was until I needed to spell check.

"keep yer mitts off" approach is both easier and safer.  Perhaps however, when I was growing up and used a magnification device, my family would literally stand about 10 feet behind me and read what I was looking at.  Going as far as to make comments. One blind parent, his children would constantly mute the sound because they did not know how to turn jaws off.   

Truly, the easiest way is to forbid the use of your computer and enforce it.

Kids are both very clever and very determined, not to mention what non-assistive-technology users can screw up on a machine of an AT user are just too many to mention.

I have a lot of clients where not only may their kids, grandkids, etc., not use their computers but their respective spouses are forbidden as well.  It can, and generally does, save a lot of heartache.

If you absolutely can't go that route, then I would create a separate Windows 10 user account, with only standard permissions (not admin), and turn on parental controls for it and make sure that's the account that's logged on prior to the kids sitting down at the machine.  But, personally, I believe the "keep yer mitts off" approach is both easier and safer.
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Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044  

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.
     ~ Lauren Bacall

Hi, I had a student in one of my high school classes that use to sit behind me and loudly point out my spelling mistakes to all the class. At the time I didn’t have an option of a screen shade and I was using a magnifier rather then a screen reader. Since I didn’t need to read what I was typing at the time I turned my font into one that displayed only shapes. However, when the teacher next came by they asked me to go back to normal font so they could see what I was doing. The screen was one that you couldn’t read easily from the side but since the student was sitting directly behind me she had no issues seeing the screen. I think in the end I just lowered the screen a bit so it couldn’t be easily seen by the other student. I was taught touch typing at an early age so most of the time I didn’t need to see what I was typing so I didn’t need to see the screen. At least this was until I needed to spell check.

"keep yer mitts off" approach is both easier and safer.  Perhaps however, when I was growing up and used a magnification device, my family would literally stand about 10 feet behind me and read what I was looking at.  Going as far as to make comments. One blind parent, his children would constantly mute the sound because they did not know how to turn jaws off.   

Truly, the easiest way is to forbid the use of your computer and enforce it.

Kids are both very clever and very determined, not to mention what non-assistive-technology users can screw up on a machine of an AT user are just too many to mention.

I have a lot of clients where not only may their kids, grandkids, etc., not use their computers but their respective spouses are forbidden as well.  It can, and generally does, save a lot of heartache.

If you absolutely can't go that route, then I would create a separate Windows 10 user account, with only standard permissions (not admin), and turn on parental controls for it and make sure that's the account that's logged on prior to the kids sitting down at the machine.  But, personally, I believe the "keep yer mitts off" approach is both easier and safer.
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Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044  

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.
     ~ Lauren Bacall

Hi, I had a student in one of my high school classes that use to sit behind me and loudly point out my spelling mistakes to all the class. At the time I didn’t have an option of a screen shade and I was using a magnifier rather then a screen reader. Since I didn’t need to read what I was typing at the time I turned my font into one that displayed only shapes. However, when the teacher next came by they asked me to go back to normal font so they could see what I was doing. The screen was one that you couldn’t read easily from the side but since the student was sitting directly behind me she had no issues seeing the screen. I think in the end I just lowered the screen a bit so it couldn’t be easily seen by the other student. I was taught touch typing at an early age so most of the time I didn’t need to see what I was typing so I didn’t need to see the screen. At least this was until I needed to spell check.

"keep yer mitts off" approach is both easier and safer.  Perhaps however, when I was growing up and used a magnification device, my family would literally stand about 10 feet behind me and read what I was looking at.  Going as far as to make comments. One blind parent, his children would constantly mute the sound because they did not know how to turn jaws off.   

Truly, the easiest way is to forbid the use of your computer and enforce it.

Kids are both very clever and very determined, not to mention what non-assistive-technology users can screw up on a machine of an AT user are just too many to mention.

I have a lot of clients where not only may their kids, grandkids, etc., not use their computers but their respective spouses are forbidden as well.  It can, and generally does, save a lot of heartache.

If you absolutely can't go that route, then I would create a separate Windows 10 user account, with only standard permissions (not admin), and turn on parental controls for it and make sure that's the account that's logged on prior to the kids sitting down at the machine.  But, personally, I believe the "keep yer mitts off" approach is both easier and safer.
--

Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044  

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.  If you’re alive, it isn’t.
     ~ Lauren Bacall