Thanks, Christy!

The more I thought about it, it made sense, but I just thought I'd better
ask others to be sure.

Can you imagine how hard the problem would be to explain to the sighted
non-jaws-using tech support folks at the University?

I really didn't want to have to do that!  (grin)

73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christy Schulte" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: question on Jaws with a laptop


> You're absolutely right. The reason for this is so that if you try to use
> the caps lock for jaws functions, you don't want to be toggling your caps
> lock itself at the same time. So, to activate or deactivate caps lock,
> simply tap the key twice quickly and it will toggle.
> Christy, KI4GYH
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of T Behler
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 12:48 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: question on Jaws with a laptop
>
>
> Hi, again, everyone.
>
> I have discovered an interesting little quirk with my Dell Lattitude 610
> laptop that my University purchased for me last year.  On this laptop, I
use
> Jaws 7.0, and the operating system is Windows XP Pro.
>
> I have noticed that the caps lock key doesn't always go into "caps lock"
> with the first push of the key.
>
> In fact, it seems to do so on about every other tap.
>
> Does this have something to do with the fact that we use the capslock key
on
> a laptop with Jaws to toggle between the Jaws and PC cursors, and to
toggle
> between jaws to PC, and PC to Jaws?
>
> The toggling functions seem to work very well with just one push of the
caps
> lock key, but I have to hit it at least one more time to get the caps lock
> itself to engage.
>
> I have had absolutely no other problems with any of the other keys on the
> key-board, which is what is making me believe that this has something to
do
> with the dual functionality of the capslock key when using Jaws.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts anyone  can give on this.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
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