[Hudlug] usb keypad and usb memory stick

[MICHAEL WEAVER]

I have now got a USB keypad for my laptop which fits.
There are 2 USB ports on my laptop in the bottom left and bottom right 
corners so I can connect it either side although I presume most of the 
time I will be using the right side for the keypad and the left slot for 
the USB stick.
Ubuntu seemed to recognise the Dizgo stick. I think Lindsay says it is a 
256 MB one.
I tried out the keypad briefly with Orca, using the Insert from the 
keypad and F1 on the laptop which is the context sensative help for Orca 
or whatever you might call it where it freezes the Keystrokes to prevent 
them from activating but tells you what each keystroke does and that 
seemed to work.
I think some of the Orca keystrokes are very much like Jaws for Windows 
keystrokes because you use Insert for each one and it is also a bit like 
Windoweyes keystrokes as well.
I think for example that + is a left mouse keystroke, well it is one of 
the top keys on the keypad that simulates a mouse keystroke, the Mouse 
keystrokes are pretty much like Jaws for Windows and Windoweyes anyway.
I think that 1 on the keypad reads the caracter you are on, 2 on the 
keypad reads the left caracter and 3 reads the caracter to the right for 
example.
May have got this slightly rong but that is a basic idea and those keys 
with Ins used reads words I think but I will have another look before 
the next meeting at Birstall and Vox but I will just play around with 
them for a while but they certainly don't have a steep learning curve 
like the key commands for Gnopernicus but I reckon either screenreader 
will work with a little more control than I had without the pad so I 
think I really did need the pad as a necessary means of using a Linux 
screenreader.
I think for something like a screenreader you need a pad as they are 
written to make things easier so you concentrate more on using the 
application rather than concentrating on using the screenreader.