IBM Keyboard Optimizer user manual

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IBM Keyboard Optimizer

Version 1.1.1.1


User Guide



August 10, 2005
















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Introduction People with mild to moderate motor disabilities can usually use a keyboard, but sometimes with some difficulty. Windows includes functions that can help, but the parameters of the Windows Keyboard Accessibility Options must be set manually, or by responding to a series of questions. The Keyboard Optimizer was developed by IBM Researchers at Hawthorne, New York, to automate the adjustment of the Windows keyboard settings. The Keyboard Optimizer is a quick, easy and accu

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When you skip or undo a suggestion, the Keyboard Optimizer will not offer that suggestion again. If you choose the 'Start again' button, all changes to the settings will be undone and the typing analysis restarted. When you are happy with the current settings, choose 'Finish' (Ctrl-f). If changes have been made, you will be asked whether those changes should be kept after the Keyboard Optimizer closes. Choose 'Yes' to keep your new settings, or 'No' to put the keyboard back to how i

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Finding out your current settings At any time, you can see the technical details of the keyboard settings by pressing the 'See details' button (Ctrl-d). This opens a drop-down panel containing a table. Each row of the table is a setting the Keyboard Optimizer covers. For each setting, the table lists the current value of the setting, the Keyboard Optimizer's suggested value, and the original value that was being used when analysis started. Values may be a number (in milliseconds),

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is recommended, the Keyboard Optimizer will explicitly offer that suggestion, and you can decide what to do. Logging If you have a reproducible problem with the program, you can record your session to help with troubleshooting. The log file records information about your typing but DOES NOT contain the exact text you typed. All alphabetic characters are recorded as the character 'x', and all numerals are recorded as '1'. No-one could obtain passwords or read what you have typed by us