In Windows, you can go into the control panel and into Language and 
Regional options to select another keyboard language as your input 
method. Then you toggle between the two languages with the left 
shift+alt keys. If you have language detection on in Jaws, Jaws should 
read things correctly provided the synthesizer supports both languages.

If your student is working in Word, then it's important to go into the 
Options menu to turn off language detection in Word. I think the option 
is actually called Auto Language or something, but I don't remember 
exactly where it is. If you don't disable this, Word may change the 
keyboard language, especially if you're working on a document with two 
languages.

The student will need to experiment with the keyboard to figure it out, 
but it should be much more convenient than memorizing the codes. For 
example, when I type Spanish, I just type an apostrophe, then a letter 
A, and the computer combines those two characters into á.


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