Hi Don, While Marilyn's point is a nice one, and I have such a Dell laptop at home with a numpad, it weighs about 5 pounds. If you want one which weighs around 2 pounds which you can easily carry around with you, I don't believe it will be possible to get one with a numpad on the keypad.
Marilyn's suggestion of carrying around an external numpad is one way of dealing with this, but as she says, an awkward one. It's not the only one however; Window-Eyes does offer a laptop keyboard layout specifically for those keyboards which don't have numpads. They move all the functions which would be handled by a numpad on to other keys. Alternatively, instead of using the WE laptop layout, almost all laptops have a special key which make a group of keys centered around the j, k, and l keys act like they are a numpad when you hold down this special key. This is how I used WE with my previous Dell laptop which was smaller, and which did not have a numpad on its keyboard. I found this very easy to adapt to (actually easier than switching to the laptop layout), although you may need some sighted help (or support help from the manufacturer) initially to find the special key, and to know what keystrokes it generates when used with other keyboard keys. So, it all depends on what your needs are, and which keyboard you wish to purchase, and how you wish to adapt to not having a numpad if you want the smaller laptops; but don't think you could ever adjust to some different layout, it's much easier than you'd believe. Hth, Chip Chip Orange Florida Public Service Commission Computer Systems Analyst 850-413-6314 -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+corange=psc.state.fl...@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of don bishop via Talk Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 12:21 PM To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com Subject: laptops and window-eyes Any suggestions for a laptop which works well with window-eyes? Thanks, Don _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/corange%40psc.state.fl.us. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
