[BRLTTY] We could change the banner

Stéphane Doyon s.doyon at videotron.ca
Thu Jan 1 00:38:50 EST 2015


On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Dave Mielke wrote:

>> It may not be obvious that the Advance buttons are the square buttons
>> on the front edge.
>
> Are the Advance keys just inside the rockers, just outside the shfit keys,

Correct.

> spaced somewhat away from both, or what?

No spacing really. It's like this:
the outermost keys, the Selector, are given a round concave face, although 
they are in fact sitting on a square base.
Then the rockers, well they're pretty easily identifiable as rockers, even 
though the bottom part is raised a bit.
Then the so called advance keys... now I feel closely, they're the same 
square base as the selectors, but the outer face isn't given that circular 
shape. They do instead have some kind of raised shape on them but it feels 
less prominent, it's a double arrow pointing left on the left one and 
right on the right one, but those are not immediately obvious IMO.
All these keys are just side by side, indeed there isn't a lot of the edge 
left that isn't covered with keys.

The shift  buttons are a bit different: rectangular with no other shape on 
them, but located on a sort of prominance in the case: it protrudes out a 
bit around the space bar that's a top the device.

Still, seems to me the order is the key thing, the physical 
characteristics are a bit too subtle.

>> so we might just say that the front edge has the Selector keys at each
>> end, and then working towards the middle, the rockers, then the Advance keys,
>> and in the middle, the left and right shift keys.
>
> I think it's more complex than that because some models also have what are
> called bumper keys.

Oh? I'm not aware of those.


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