You are right, but wow, what a reply! I’m going to grab my dust pan and sweep his ashes up from the righteous fire that just consumed him.

Hell, you don’t even need fancy group policy, since I think it asks you if you want to keep it on when it activates. They know most people don’t need it, so making it easy to customize to fit the owner of the computer is the right move, but accessible by default is also the right move, since someone who needs it might not even be able to turn it on if it were the other way.

Accessibility in computing (and in general but I only know computing in depth) is crazy hard, and super important. Everyone ends up with a disability at some point if they live long enough.

Now, I can picture a system that would be able to make it easier for people by letting them store a configuration profile on a keychain or bracelet or something that uses some manner of proximity communication to share a users input and output preferences to a computer, and maybe some type of Bluetooth fast-pair information if the user does have their own keyboard or input they bring with them, and that would be sweet from both a disability perspective and also for the rest of the user base, since the accessible way is also usually better in general. (It’s why you remove snow from wheelchair ramps first, and some buildings don’t even bother with external entryway stairs, since everyone can use a ramp, and dual partial ellipse ramps let you put flowers or a water feature in the middle, and it looks quite nice)

You’d have to be careful with privacy considerations to avoid tracking, and it wouldn’t let you not be accessible by default, but I could see it being a nice addition.

You don’t even need a Group Policy to disable sticky keys, you can disable directly from the accessibility menu.

Wow, what a disproportionate and oddly vicious response to a very innocuous suggestion.

Nowhere in my comment did I suggest that sticky keys simply shouldn’t exist. I was specifically responding to the OP talking about Ctrl-C/V and suggesting that a programmable keyboard would be a better solution for that, since you can turn 7 keystrokes into 1, since I expect that reducing the number of keystrokes one has to type is probably pretty valuable for someone in this situation. There are a lot of standard keybinds in an OS that could be handled this way. Obviously you can’t do this for every keybinds in existence. But again, the OP was talking about standard OS keybinds. Admittedly, I forgot sticky keys are a toggle, so it’s not as many keystrokes after the first time, but still, there are common key sequences that would be more challenging to hit, like Ctrl-Alt-Delete.

If someone is trying to use a public computer, by all means, use sticky keys. Again, I never said it shouldn’t exist or people should never use it. I was pretty obviously talking about the normal case: using a workstation/laptop at work/home. It’s kind of implied when referring to an external keyboard, since you don’t usually bring those places. Don’t really know why you’re talking about public computers.

The rest of your weirdly personal attacks are all against a strawman you’ve constructed, so I don’t really need to address them.

It’s good advice irrespective of the time or topic.

that made me look it up and realize linux has a shortcut to access the settings screen right away, however, it’s done by doing a button combination, which funnily, is something that cannot be done by a person that requires stick keys assistance. The sticky keys shortcut in windows is designed this way because you cannot make the shortcut requires simultaneous key presses.

The Windows key as part of a combination is great. It’s an extra modifier key.

The Windows key by itself is terrible because it immediately steals focus from the current application and can’t be disabled without something like AutoHotkey.

My greatest trick in computer class was memorizing all the keyboard shortcuts and never using the garbage ball mouse.

Navigating a computer just by keyboard almost feels like magic still to some people and it’s fun to rotate people’s entire screens.

For me, it’s more for protecting against unintentional presses.

Don’t you need to be admin to muck with system32?

That isn’t what they said. Someone could guess if they knew how sticky keys worked but there are many types of disabilites.

I sincerely appreciate it.

Thanks. Next time someone asks about something, like say about a car part, and someone condescendingly replies that it’s for a car because they exist I will remember your courage and heroic defense of the above douchenozzle and proceed to do in the future what I did earlier.

Not everyone has knowledge of everything, and on a social platform it is common to share experiences and to converse about what you may have learned since them, or what you already knew that others might not. I skipped down to the credits to educate myself about sticky keys precisely because I didn’t know what they were for and had shared the aforementioned frustrating experience.

This attitude is one step away from coming to a social gathering of any sort and telling people to Google whatever they ask about instead of just having a conversation. Sometimes I worry that my social skills have slipped or evaporated until I come across a scene like this one.

I feel like you’re being deliberately rude and not reading what I said now. First off, thanks for dismissively passing me a link I need to pay $237 to read, no thanks ISO, but also I bet it doesn’t say you must enable sticky keys by pressing the key 5 times.

I know this because Macs don’t have this terrible shortcut enabled. You just turn sticky keys on in the Accessibility options. I also know this because the other article you posted tells the story of Gregg Vanderheiden, who wrote the first sticky keys driver in assembly and used the 5-press as a hack to signal for his driver to take over. Once the feature was officially implemented, the 5-press should no longer have been needed as a trigger.

And in fact, the “rogue developer” (Ed Tecot) who bravely worked on accessibility features from further down in the backlog for the Mac didn’t implement the 5-press either. And that article specifically calls out Microsoft, by the original designer, for having a bad shortcut!

It’s turned off by default on Macs—as the inventors intended. “You want sticky keys turned off by default because it’s just going to annoy them,” shared Vanderheiden in the call. “It doesn’t help you, it doesn’t help them, it doesn’t help the disability community.” But somehow, the wires got crossed with Windows, and to this day it’s enabled by default, an accidental 5-Shift-press away from discovery.

No, it is meme about people finding the unexpected popup they don’t understand about something they are not aware of to be annoying. There are a lot of options in windows that don’t have anything to do with disabilities that have similar popups which are also unexpected and annoying, this one just happens a lot for certain types of games.

Doubling down by making it about race too is comical. Do you think non-white people in the same situation don’t find the meme relatable?

Then maybe just stop being an asshole?

Do you think insulting people for not being aware of something, when the punchline for a meme is how people aren’t aware of the thing, is how meme boards are supposed to work?

I must be bad with computers.