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This is the layout of the lower case Dvorak keys.
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I've successfully used Dvorak keyboards with students who had difficulty with a standard Qwerty keyboard or were typing with one hand. The layout is more ergonomic because the commonly used keys are arranged so that they are easiest to reach. Of course the most difficult part of learning the Dvorak keyboard is to unlearn the Qwerty keyboard.
Any Qwerty keyboard can be made to act like a Dvorak keyboard by changing some windows settings. Keep in mind that the hotkeys used by screen readers will also have to be adjusted in the screen reader's settings, or you can keep the same screen reader keystrokes but have to memorize the new value for the keys. For example, Jaws verbosity menu hotkey (Insert + V) would now be Insert + K on the Dvorak keyboard since the K is now be where the V used to be.
A web site that goes into more detail is located at http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~dylan/dvorak/dvorak.html.
Ian Sangree
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My real question is about the Dvorak keyboard; how is it different
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