Laptop for muscle weakness?

[mikett]

Hello everyone great to be new to this forum. Hope everyone is keeping safe and well!

I have a disability consequently making me electric wheelchair bound and unable to walk as a result of a severe muscle weakness condition.

Over the years I have been unable to type and have had to resort to using speech software for text.

However I would really like to get back into typing.

I have limited movement in my hands with limited pressure to press keys. I was perhaps wondering if anyone knew of a notebook / laptop or portable keyboard that has ultra sensitive buttons to press. Also I don’t have much movement so it would need to be compact.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated

Many thanks Mike

 

[d_brennen]

Sorry to hear of your condition, my brother in law was diagnosed with MND recently, while he's relatively OK for the time being, it's been something that's been on my mind for a while.

Nearly all Chromebooks have the usual scissor switch that laptops have, very light actuation pressure, without the Windows CPU requirement etc, depends what you need from it really. My daughters Acer Chromebook also has touchscreen input, which may or may not help for you vs touchpad manipulation

 

[Randomface74]

Most laptops with low profile scissor switches are pretty much the same, they're as light as can be without accidental presses. If you really want low actuation force and can avoid accidental presses there might be touchscreen options.

Edit: this sort of thing, https://www.alltop9.com/use-smartphone-tablet-as-mouse-keyboard-for-pc