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<link type="guide" xref="keyboard" group="a11y"/>
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<link type="guide" xref="a11y#mobility" group="keyboard"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.2" date="2011-09-24" status="review"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.4.0" date="2012-02-19" status="final"/>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Jeremy Bicha</name>
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<email>jbicha@ubuntu.com</email>
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<desc>Use an on-screen keyboard to enter text without using a keyboard.</desc>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Julita Inca</name>
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<email>yrazes@gmail.com</email>
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Use an on-screen keyboard to enter text by clicking buttons with the mouse.
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<include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>
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<title>Use a screen keyboard</title>
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<p>If you don't have a keyboard attached to your computer or prefer not to use it,
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you can turn on the <em>screen keyboard</em> to enter text.</p>
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<p>If you don't have a keyboard attached to your computer or prefer not to use
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it, you can turn on the <em>screen keyboard</em> to enter text.</p>
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<item><p>Click your name on the top bar and select <gui>System Settings</gui>.</p></item>
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<item><p>Open <gui>Universal Access</gui> and select the <gui>Typing</gui> tab.</p></item>
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<item><p>Switch <gui>Screen keyboard</gui> on.</p></item>
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<item><p>Click your name on the top bar and select <gui>System Settings</gui>.
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<item><p>Open <gui>Universal Access</gui> and select the <gui>Typing</gui> tab.
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<item><p>Switch on <gui>Typing Assistant</gui> to show the screen keyboard.</p>
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<p>Click the <gui>123</gui> button to enter numbers and symbols. More symbols
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are available if you then click the <gui>{#*</gui> button. To return to the
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alphabet keyboard, click the <gui>Abc</gui> button.</p>
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<p>If the screen keyboard gets in your way, click the <gui>keyboard</gui> button
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next to the tray button to hide the keyboard. To make the keyboard show, open
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the <link xref="shell-notifications">messaging tray</link> and click the
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keyboard tray item.</p>
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<p>If the screen keyboard gets in your way, click the button that looks like a
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keyboard (next to the <gui>tray</gui> button) to hide the keyboard. To make
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the keyboard show again, open the
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<link xref="shell-notifications">messaging tray</link> by moving your mouse
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to the bottom right of the screen and click the keyboard tray item.</p>