Posted: 9/24/2007 at 03:39 PM
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Lord knows many of us spend far too much time on the internet, clicking around various sites or clacking out posts like this one. If you're a writer or spend lots of time, emailing, blogging, or even chatting on your computer you know how important a good keyboard can be. If you've got arthritis or are visually impaired you may be interested in getting one of these keyboards.
Enablemart's "Big Keys Plus" are standard size computer keyboards with very large keys. The keys are 1-inch square -- 4 times bigger than the keys on standard computer keyboards. You can even get a keyboard that has multicolored keys for easier navigation. Enablemart wants $135 for one of these things, a bit steep for a keyboard, but if it helps you blog in comfort it might just be worth it.
They also have a creatively names "Keys-U-See" keyboard available: "These large print keyboards are perfect for those who simply have a hard time seeing the existing commands on their keyboards. With a bigger and bolder typeface, the keys are easier to see." I don't think the keys are actually that much bigger, the labels on the keys are the things that are bigger. Despite the lame name of the product this keyboard appears to be pretty useful too. This keyboard is a much more reasonable $35.
Does anybody have experience with these products? Do they actually work well? Let us know in the comments...
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I don't have experience with these but the glowing keys are helpful to me at night....nothing disability-related...I just stay up later than everyone else in my apt and type in the dark!
glowing keys sound cool to me too...
you know, I was thinking this would be cool for people with dexterity issues.
But touch typing is really the best way to go when you are visually impaired. I feel bad for some older people that are always straining to see their large print phone buttons or large print keyboards. It irritates me when VR folks get all into making the disabled person justify the purchase of this stuff and then wait months for it to appear. It would be so much easier to take a few minutes (phone) or a few hours (keyboard) and just learn to touch type. I don't think I've looked at my keyboard or my phone keys for 15 or so years.
But, to each their own, whatever works!
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