A user types with one hand and cannot hold Ctrl or Shift down while pressing another key. Which accessibility feature lets a modifier key stay active after it is released, so the next key press is combined with it?
LPIC-1 Exam 102-500, objective 106. User interfaces and desktops easy
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The options
Not correct Slow Keys
Wrong feature. Slow Keys requires a key to be held down for a set delay before it registers, which suppresses keys brushed accidentally on the way to the intended one.
Correct Sticky Keys
Correct. Sticky Keys latches modifiers such as Shift, Ctrl, Alt and Super, so pressing and releasing Ctrl then pressing C produces Ctrl+C without holding both at once.
Not correct Mouse Keys
Wrong feature. Mouse Keys moves the mouse pointer and clicks using the numeric keypad, for users who cannot operate a pointing device.
Not correct Toggle Keys
Wrong feature. Toggle Keys plays an audible tone when a locking key such as Caps Lock or Num Lock changes state, which helps users who cannot see the indicator LED.
Why
The keyboard accessibility set is worth memorising as a group: Sticky Keys latches modifiers, Slow Keys demands a key be held before it counts, Bounce Keys ignores a rapid second press of the same key, Repeat Keys governs auto-repeat delay and rate, Toggle Keys beeps on Caps Lock and Num Lock, and Mouse Keys drives the pointer from the keypad.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- LPI exam objective 106.3
- What it says
- Keyboard accessibility settings including sticky, slow, bounce, toggle and mouse keys.
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