Typeability

Learn the Computer Keyboard with TypeAbility!

TypeAbility is a program that teaches the entire computer keyboard in 77 user-friendly lessons. By the end of the lessons, the student will have mastered all the letters, numbers, punctuation signs as well as basic navigation and editing in text documents. TypeAbility is great fun for all ages!

TypeAbility is compatible with JAWS 6 and higher and the screen magnification program MAGic.

Learning how to start, run, choose lessons and tasks, and how to close TypeAbility is very simple. After a few lessons with an assistant, a visually impaired blind non-typing child will be able to use the program independently. TypeAbility has two modes – one for a young person and the other for an adult so it is fun and appropriate for students of all ages.  The only problem with TypeAbility is that you will not want to stop using the computer! 

There are User Preferences that allow TypeAbility to conform to each students needs. However, there are not such a bewildering number of esoteric options that learning how to use TypeAbility would be a mystery and chore. It's a cinch!

Even though TypeAbility is very simple to use, it is both the most advanced typing program for the blind on the market, and the most fun to use.  What’s more, when TypeAbility is purchased from T&T Consultancy Ltd UK and Australia, it comes with the TypeAbility “Getting Started” audio CD which walks you through how to install and use the program.  

To run TypeAbility, only a few hotkeys are necessary. Function keys F1 through to F8, and F12.

• F1. TypeAbility will remind the user exactly what he should be typing.
• F2. Starts the next lesson.
• F3. Opens a list of the 68 lessons from which the student can choose from.
• F4. Opens a list of lessons and each task in the lesson to choose from.
• F5. Starts an entertaining Accuracy/Speed game for the current task the student is typing.
• F6. Opens a List Box containing many Dictation exercises covering every conceivable typing challenge. Pick one, and TypeAbility will dictate to the student just as if dictating to a secretary. When the dictation is finished and the student has completed typing, the accuracy and speed are reported.
• F7. Opens a list box containing all the Dictation Exercises that the Teacher personally created for TypeAbility.
• F8. Opens a box where Teachers can type or paste their own Dictation exercises.
• F12. Opens the Student's progress report, which can be saved and printed out.

In addition, a variety of options are available so that students can customise the product to their own preferences.

A demonstration copy of TypeAbility can be obtained from this page.  The demonstration copy can be started 15 times before a licence is required.

Please activate this link to download the TypeAbility demonstration copy.