On-Screen Keyboard is a utility that displays a virtual keyboard on your screen and allows users with mobility impairments to type data using a pointing device or joystick. On-Screen Keyboard is intended to provide a minimum level of functionality for users with mobility impairments. It is also useful for users who do not know how to type.
On-Screen Keyboard has three typing modes you can use to type data:
- In clicking mode, you click the on-screen keys to type text.
- In scanning mode, On-Screen Keyboard continually scans the keyboard and highlights areas where you can type keyboard characters by pressing a hot key or using a switch-input device.
- In hovering mode, you use a mouse or joystick to point to a key for a pre-defined period of time, and the selected character is typed automatically.
In On-Screen Keyboard you can also:
- View an enhanced keyboard that includes the numeric keypad, or a standard keyboard without the numeric keypad.
- Display the keyboard with the keys in the standard layout, or in a block layout in which the keys are arranged in rectangular blocks. Block layout is especially useful in scanning mode.
- Display the U.S. standard keyboard (101 keys), the universal keyboard (102 keys), or a keyboard (106 keys) with additional Japanese language characters.
- Use Click Sound to add an audible click when you select a key.
- Use Always on Top to keep your keyboard displayed on your screen when you switch programs or windows.
Open On-Screen Keyboard.
Notes
- Utility Manager enables users to check the status of On-Screen Keyboard and other Accessibility programs, start or stop a program, and designate to have the program start when Windows 2000 starts.
- The Accessibility tools that ship with Windows 2000 are intended to provide a minimum level of functionality for users with special needs. Most users with disabilities will need utility programs with higher functionality for daily use. For a list of Windows-based accessibility utilities, see the Microsoft Accessibility Web site (http://www.microsoft.com/).
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