But the Dvorak home row contains letters in thousands of English words. Christopher Shoals designed the sequence of letters by scattering the most commonly used letters in the English language all across the keyboard to remedy the jamming and actually slow down typing. Typewriters evolved to include an inked ribbon, a cylindrical paper cartridge and an accelerating sublever that permitted faster typing, but the keyboard configuration remained the same. Many special education therapists and occupational therapists are not even aware of the help Dvorak offers, Ingram says. One reason for this is that it is not a marketable endeavor.
People can access the configuration free of cost.
Personal computers allow you to switch your keyboard to the Dvorak format with a few quick steps without buying a whole new keyboard. Macintosh just recently started offering the Dvorak option in its Mac OS 8 operating system, but the Dvorak layout is not automatically included in the operating systems. It must be added to the system file itself. 1. Open the Main window 2. Double click on the Control Panel icon 3.