Head Pointer and Mouth Stick Guide

Head Pointer and Mouth Stick Keyboard is an Oska on-screen keyboard that has been designed for when you use a Head Pointer or Mouth Stick. You need to use it on a touch-sensitive screen - it is no use on a normal display because you cannot press the buttons with your pointer or stick.

Character keys are displayed in white with the number keys shown as grey. The keyboard works as you expect, so hitting the 'a' key on the on-screen keyboard makes 'a' appear on the screen just as if you have had pressed the 'a' key on the standard keyboard. The keys are arranged around the Space bar, which is shown as a blank key near the middle of the Keyboard. This is so that all the keys are easy to get to with the minimum of movement.

Function keys work just as normal.

The CAPS key will turn on or off Caps Lock.

To use the modifier keys – SHIFT, CTRL, ALT and right hand SHIFT – in conjunction with a key, hit the modifier and then the key that you want to use. For example, to do Control + C to copy, hit CTRL, check it has changed colour to show that its depressed, then hit the C key.

Below is the complete list of special function keys: