Sorry about the delayed state of the mail. I went to do some work for
the California Federation in Sacramento and moria died in my absence. Awe,
when we can replace this aging piece of equipment.
Anyway, here is the mail.
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From: Curtis Chong
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Subject: Caps Lock Indicator, etc.
Greetings to you all:
I received the following post from Greg Lowney of Microsoft. I am sure that he
would welcome comments from all and sundry. When I have had a chance to digest
this, I will, of course, be forwarding my comments to him with copies to you
all.
Have a nice week.
From: greglo@microsoft.com
To: tomdav@microsoft.com
usids002@ibmmail.com, vanderhe@vms.macc.wisc.edu, wakefiel@tmn.com
Subject: RE: telling when capslock is down
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 12:10:29 PDT
Interesting. In Win31 we could have let the user turn off those keys
but in Chicago one will really want to use the right mouse button for
many operations. Do you think disabling them is the right approach or
could something else like a confirmation, or maybe press them twice or
have to hold them down for a full second?.
>From tomdav Thu Sep 30 12:05:08 1993
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>From: Tom M. Davis <tomdav@microsoft.com>
To: greglo
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 12:04:11 PDT
Subject: RE: telling when capslock is down
Cc: tomdav
This sounds like a very good feature to implement. These unforeseen,
and unbidden, modifications which can appear, seemingly
out-of-the-blue, can be rather upsetting.
Also significant are the keys above the keypad (num lock, /, and *).
While using the Access Pack mouse-keys feature, I will sometimes
overshoot a direction key and hit /, which disables the double-click
functionality of the + key, or hit num lock, which produces numbers in
place of mouse movements.
Tom
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>From: Greg Lowney
To: Accessibility and Disability Issues
Subject: telling when capslock is down
Date: Thursday, September 30, 1993 10:29AM
>From greglo Thu Sep 30 10:29:19 1993
To: day@cookie.enet.dec.com usids002@ibmmail.com
vanderhe@vms.macc.wisc.edu wakefiel@tmn.com
Subject: telling when capslock is down
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 10:29:18 PDT
I've noticed that the most common error to occur in email from a blind
person is that the caps lock key gets turned on and they don't realize it.
Then the entire message comes up in caps, except the letters that they
intend to be capitalized are lower case.
It seems that either the operating system or screen readers should
provide a feature to give one a distinctive keyclick when the letter
being typed is shifted, whether by the shift key or by the caps-lock
key (or by the StickyKeys key latching feature). Does that sound like
it would be useful to people?
Or is the solution just to make the ToggleKeys feature universally
available, so that the user can press the Caps Lock key and hear a
distinctive beep telling them whether it is on or off. That would be
just as good, but only if people get in the habit of checking it all
the time. (Although, it would also give you a beep when you accidentally
press it so there's less chance of accidentally turning on Caps Lock.)
We are, of course, already planning on making the ToggleKeys feature
universally available in our operating systems.
Greg
Cordially, Curtis Chong (CURTC)
Communication Software Support Group (CSSG) Phone: 612/671-2185
IDS Financial Services, IDS Tower-10, OP4/591
Minneapolis, MN 55440
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