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| Brand: | Accuratus |
| Item Height : | 40 millimetres |
| Item Width: | 16.8 centimetres |
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| Hard Drive Interface: | USB 2.0 |
Technical Details
- USB only
- Enhanced 105 Windows key layout
- Highly reliable membrane contact technology
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
The Accuratus 260 HiVis range opens up new opportunities for those with impaired eye site. It has been widely recognised that people with impaired sight respond more positively to Yellow fonts on a Black background as opposed to White fonts on a Black background. With its Black background and enlarged Yellow font the HiVis from Ceratech is a cost effective assistant. If the 260 is not enough for you why not take a look at the KeyMonster that has keys more than double the size of a conventional board. In fact, from lower case standard to multi mixed monster boards Ceratech has many solutions for people with special needs.
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ACCURATUS 260 HIVI USB BLACK KYBAC260HIVISUP Keyboards Keyboards
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
My sight is not as sharp as it once was and I bought this to replace the keyboard on a new Dell PC which had slightly smaller lettering than the previous one. Much easier to see especially with a small desk lamp illuminating the keyboard.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Last night, I was all set to watch an episode of Doc Martin. I'm not a great TV lover (that is a lover of TV, not a lover on TV, although I'm open to offers) but what I like about DM is that it's pretty much The Vicar of Dibley in drag. I also love the scenery - I wouldn't mind living somewhere like that.
Anyway, I got comfortable on the sofa, all ready for a relaxing bit of escapism, and then we lost the satellite signal. Do you remember the days of analogue TV? A coat hanger on the door frame would get you a picture, and with a decent aerial, even in really bad weather the worst you might get was a little "snow" in the picture. Now it's all digital. You need an aerial the size of a small car, and if the weather's bad, that's it: no more TV. So, last night the weather here was fine, but there must have a been a cloud, or the wrong kind of leaves or something, between us and the satellite, so that was it: no Doc Martin.
That's progress.
When I first got into computers, way back in the late 70s, I thought I'd better learn to touch type. In those days they didn't have classes just for typing, so I signed up for a secretarial course at night school. Not only did I learn to touch type, but also how to lay out a business letter, the proper way to address a bishop, and all sorts of other stuff. Then my firm bought me my first computer. It was a Commodore Pet. The keyboard was a red, blue and silver rectangle with the keys arranged in alphabetical order. I say keys, but they were really just little marked squares that you had to thump with your fingertips.
Two years later, I got a computer with a real keyboard: it was fantastic - the keys actually went up and down, and were in the places that your fingers expected them to be. The best keyboard ever was the IBM with Buckling Spring keys. We all got used to decent keyboards, and what's more we knew where to find the keys; there was a de facto standard for the layout. Great!
Then came progress. The first change was when some of the far eastern makers decided to cluster the print screen, scroll lock, and pause/break keys in with the Insert, Home and Page-up keys. Why? You were forever pressing Print screen when you meant to toggle insert. Then we got the "multimedia keyboard" with 4,892 additional buttons that only worked with certain programs, and in any case only duplicated what you could do in a squillion other ways. All these extra keys necessitated making the actual typing keys (you know, the ones that you actually need a keyboard for) smaller, and suddenly, all that muscle-memory that you've accumulated from years of typing is not only useless, but it's counter productive, sending your fingers instinctively to the wrong place.
The final nail in the coffin was Apple with their "sod the functionality, look how pretty it is" philosophy: a super-thin keyboard with (virtually) non-moving keys. We're back to the bloody Commodore Pet, for God's sake! Great (probably) for hairdressers and interior designers - not much use for those of us who actually need to type stuff.
A few years ago I found a 1995 vintage Dell keyboard in a rubbish skip. How I loved that keyboard; it weighed about 4.5 tonnes and made a fantastic racket as I banged away at the keys. I've spent the years since then buying different keyboards at the rate of 4 or 5 a year,searching for one that might even come close to a real keyboard.
So, I ordered this based solely on the picture, in the hope that the keys would actually go up and down, and that they'd be spaced correctly. They do, and they are.
Never mind whether you are partially sighted or not, buy this keyboard if you want to actually type and you don't want to spend 80 dollars plus carriage and duty on a buckling spring keyboard.
This is not the best keyboard I ever owned, but it's the best I've had (and could get) in the last couple of years.
Anyway, I got comfortable on the sofa, all ready for a relaxing bit of escapism, and then we lost the satellite signal. Do you remember the days of analogue TV? A coat hanger on the door frame would get you a picture, and with a decent aerial, even in really bad weather the worst you might get was a little "snow" in the picture. Now it's all digital. You need an aerial the size of a small car, and if the weather's bad, that's it: no more TV. So, last night the weather here was fine, but there must have a been a cloud, or the wrong kind of leaves or something, between us and the satellite, so that was it: no Doc Martin.
That's progress.
When I first got into computers, way back in the late 70s, I thought I'd better learn to touch type. In those days they didn't have classes just for typing, so I signed up for a secretarial course at night school. Not only did I learn to touch type, but also how to lay out a business letter, the proper way to address a bishop, and all sorts of other stuff. Then my firm bought me my first computer. It was a Commodore Pet. The keyboard was a red, blue and silver rectangle with the keys arranged in alphabetical order. I say keys, but they were really just little marked squares that you had to thump with your fingertips.
Two years later, I got a computer with a real keyboard: it was fantastic - the keys actually went up and down, and were in the places that your fingers expected them to be. The best keyboard ever was the IBM with Buckling Spring keys. We all got used to decent keyboards, and what's more we knew where to find the keys; there was a de facto standard for the layout. Great!
Then came progress. The first change was when some of the far eastern makers decided to cluster the print screen, scroll lock, and pause/break keys in with the Insert, Home and Page-up keys. Why? You were forever pressing Print screen when you meant to toggle insert. Then we got the "multimedia keyboard" with 4,892 additional buttons that only worked with certain programs, and in any case only duplicated what you could do in a squillion other ways. All these extra keys necessitated making the actual typing keys (you know, the ones that you actually need a keyboard for) smaller, and suddenly, all that muscle-memory that you've accumulated from years of typing is not only useless, but it's counter productive, sending your fingers instinctively to the wrong place.
The final nail in the coffin was Apple with their "sod the functionality, look how pretty it is" philosophy: a super-thin keyboard with (virtually) non-moving keys. We're back to the bloody Commodore Pet, for God's sake! Great (probably) for hairdressers and interior designers - not much use for those of us who actually need to type stuff.
A few years ago I found a 1995 vintage Dell keyboard in a rubbish skip. How I loved that keyboard; it weighed about 4.5 tonnes and made a fantastic racket as I banged away at the keys. I've spent the years since then buying different keyboards at the rate of 4 or 5 a year,searching for one that might even come close to a real keyboard.
So, I ordered this based solely on the picture, in the hope that the keys would actually go up and down, and that they'd be spaced correctly. They do, and they are.
Never mind whether you are partially sighted or not, buy this keyboard if you want to actually type and you don't want to spend 80 dollars plus carriage and duty on a buckling spring keyboard.
This is not the best keyboard I ever owned, but it's the best I've had (and could get) in the last couple of years.
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