DSI Large Print USB & PS2 Computer Keyboard for Visually Impaired Individuals

I brought this keyboard for my mother who has arthritis and failing vision. She loves it. At first the buttons did not respond well, but after an hour of usage the keyboard worked fine. The color scheme is much better than the majority of these keyboards which are in colors that are suited for children and not adults. It does not have volume control or buttons to eject the cd drive, however, for an elderly person that is just more stuff to confuse.

This keyboard works fine as a plug and play keyboard. You will be saved the stress of returning it, and you shouldn’t need to download the drivers. It is a good buy considering the price and the quality of the competing boards. As far as the clickiness is concerned, this is an old fashioned keyboard. It clicks a lot. It is kind of charming that way, but if you are not into the noise, I would not suggest getting any large print keyboard at all as they all have over sized buttons that make chattering clicks. I don’t see this as an issue unless you want to secretly type on the computer, but as stated above, these boards are mostly designed with older people in mind who are not usually up to computing in the dark, at night, secretly.
Rating: 5 / 5

Though it is a “sprung” keyboard it does not have that buckling sensation and click one would normally expect. Think more of a coil spring over contact post is a more apt description of feel. That said it is still superior to any membrane keyboard but no match for IBM, Gateway or even the once cheap buckling spring keyboard of yore. The keyboard will occasionally drop letters when I type rapidly, troubling since I am a two-finger hunt’n'peck guy. Also, the other defining feature, THE LARGE LETTER KEYCAPS, is painted on, not molded. I have already lost the top of the letter D.
Rating: 2 / 5

I love my new Keys U See keyboard. Because of sight problems, a black keyboard does not work for me. My new Keys U See keyboard is great. I can see every key perfectly. No trouble at all. This has made using my computer much easier for me. I will never use any other type of keyboard and would highly recommend this one to anyone who has macular degeneration or problems seeing things with black backgrounds. I knew I could count on Amazon to have access to what I needed and they didn’t let me down.
Rating: 5 / 5

A knockoff of (or _hommage_ to) the old IBM Type M keyboards: same layout, same homely color scheme (supposedly there is a black version, but nobody seems to sell it), even much of the weight and solidity although not with the keycaps. Markings on the keys are clownishly large and bold, for people who can’t touch-type reliably and whose vision is failing (perhaps me, in another few years). Exception: the symbols on the number keys are just slightly larger and bolder than on a regular keyboard; the numbers are off-center yet still crowd them out.

Tactile feedback is less than on a Type M, but the noise is considerably less as well — if perhaps still too loud for some people. One clear difference from the Type M is that each key uses a real mechanical keyswitch: the Type M, under the excellent keycaps and the collapsing spring, is I think a membrane keyboard like the cheap ones of today, and eventually it will fail in the same way (though I have recently used Type Ms from the Eighties that show no signs of wear or trouble). The switches on this keyboard are by Cherry (or so says the manufacturer’s website: to me they look superficially like knockoffs of the old ALPS style, though I have not opened up the case to check) and should be good for decades. We’ll see.

If you want a keyboard with mechanical switches and a bit of heft to it, this is a fairly cheap one marked Made in Taiwan, and as the shipping and handling are done through Amazon, you can get free Super Saver shipping to sweeten the deal further. The BIG markings on the keys might be useful, or merely annoying. I’d give it five stars if I were certain of its future reliability.
Rating: 4 / 5