Universal Access for everyone

Apr 02, '04 10:27:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I often do work on a PowerBook, where I can only use one hand on the keyboard, and I've found Sticky Keys (in System Prefs -> Universal Access) useful in those situations. Last time I turned everything on and never turned it off, and found it's great to have on all the time.

For example: using the down arrows as page down. Without sticky keys you have to keep holding the fn key. With it on, you hit fn twice, it stays on and you just keep doing the down arrow. Or selecting text; normally you have to hold down the shift-command keys as you press the left or right arrow. With Sticky Keys on, you just hit shift-command twice, then they stay on while you hit the arrow, then hit them again to turn it off.

I even think my repetetive stress problems are less now because instead of having to hold the modifier key down with my thumb while I hit the delete or function, I just tap it with my index finger, then the delete.

The important thing is (with just a few exceptions which I've quickly learned to watch for) it doesn't really affect how you normally work. There's really no reason to turn it off.

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