Change Slow Keys Setting; Turn Sticky Keys On Or Off - Alphasmart NEO2 SmartApplet User Manual

Change Sl ow Keys Set ting

Turn Sticky Keys On or Off

The Slow Keys setting lets you decide how long you must hold down a key
before the character appears onscreen. This setting is useful for someone who
has unsteady hands or difficulty in targeting specific keys.
For example, if you set the Slow Keys option to one second, you would have to
press and hold down a character key for one entire second before that
character would appear. One second is probably too long a delay for many
users, but some fraction of a second might help alleviate inadvertent typing
for certain users.
To set the Slow Keys delay, follow these steps:
1. Do one of the following:
• From the Control Panel, select Change keyboard settings, then
select Change slow keys setting.
• From within a SmartApplet, press ctrl-option- -K.
2. To increase the delay, press
hold down keys in increments of a tenth of a second. Press
the delay.
3. Press enter to accept the change or press esc to exit the screen.
If the Slow Keys delay is greater than one second, the delay before keystrokes
is repeated (normally about one second) increases to match it. For example, if
the Slow Keys delay is set to 1.5 seconds, the delay before keys are repeated
increases to 1.5 seconds as well. This means that after pressing and holding a
key down, 1.5 seconds pass before the character appears, and after an
additional 1.5 seconds, the character begins to repeat.
For some keyboard commands on NEO, you need to hold down several keys
at the same time. This may be difficult for some users. For those users, NEO
has a Sticky Keys setting that lets you type key combinations one key at a time
without holding down all the keys at once. So you could, for instance, press
option, then , then S individually to get to the Send Speed menu, rather
than pressing all three keys as a group.
Sticky Keys affects these four keys: shift, option, , and ctrl. When Sticky
Keys is on, pressing one of these keys effectively keeps that key pressed down
for the next normal key press.
To turn the Sticky Keys option on or off in the Control Panel, select Change
keyboard settings, then select Turn sticky keys ON or Turn sticky
keys OFF and press enter.
C
O N T R O L
Change Keyboard Settings
↑
to increase the amount of time you need to
P
A N E L
↓
to decrease
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