Comments on: Left-Handed DVORAK Keyboards

By: Broken Right Arm

Broken Right Arm — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:13:03 +0000

Thee chevrons/angle brackets/less than and greater than key are rendering ‹ and › but should come up as < and >.

By: Left handed Dvorak keyboard « ATMac

Left handed Dvorak keyboard « ATMac — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:16:15 +0000

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By: Left-Handed Dvorak for Mac OS X at Walking in the Faith

Left-Handed Dvorak for Mac OS X at Walking in the Faith — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:24:09 +0000

[...] The Mac OS X Hints article Install a left-handed typing keyboard layout points to Daniel Staudigel's New Dvorak Lefty layout from his Left-Handed DVORAK Keyboards post. It looked promising, but is a Unicode-only layout. [...]

By: Robert Garnand

Robert Garnand — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:13:02 +0000

I use a left handed, one handed, Dvorak keyboard but it seems to have dropped the cap lock. Hope to find a new board.

By: Daniel Staudigel

Daniel Staudigel — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:45:11 +0000

Oopsie, your guy's comments got jacked by my spam filter (probably because you included URLs), no worries, the're back. Tom, your updates are on the site. Sorry about that, you have no idea how much spam comes through this place, and my site is small fry!

By: tom white

tom white — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:09:24 +0000

I downloaded this keyboard layout yesterday, and began the slow process of training myself to type one-handed. Not bad!

I think there are a few problems with your layout file though, especially with the way that it handles keys when caps-lock is engaged. No worry, today I downloaded the excellent freeware Ukelele, and re-built the layout.

[url=http://www.themagpie.ca/downloads/NewDvorakLefty.keylayout.zip]Here's my version of the Dvorak Lefty layout.[/url]

By: tom white

tom white — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:19:35 +0000

I wanted to write to thank you for covering this topic and for providing the Dvorak-Lefty keyboard layout.

i've been testing this keyboard layout for about half an hour, and already i love it! I'd love to be able to fluently type with one hand. I've got an Apple Bluetooth keyboard and found the keys easy to pop-off and re-position. I found a handy piece of software which helps you learn to type using whatever keyboard layout you wish. It's called TypeTrainer4Mac. Drag-n-drop a rich-text file into the app to practice using any text.

http://homepage.mac.com/typetrainer4mac/Menu1.html

A couple of problems I'm having: capslock doesn't work properly. Keys pressed while capslock is active seem to be of the standard QWERTY layout. ie: when capslock and the left-handed-dvorak key "A" are pressed, the screen prints the letter "K".

Also, the Dvorak-lefty number keys, (the ones found immediately to the left of the return key), seem not to be functioning properly either, and when pressed return the qwerty equivalent.