You will discover a keyboard that looks like this, instead: It can be found by opening the Ease of Access center on your machine…Īnd clicking the “Start On-Screen Keyboard” option.
The Ease of Access On-Screen Keyboard, on the other hand, is a tool designed for making a computer easier to use for those that may not be able to use a keyboard at all. We are going to focus today on the keyboard that looks like this: Microsoft does not seem to make a distinction in naming between the keyboard that appears when you tap your finger on a input control and the one that can be found in the Ease of Access Center. Today we are going to take a look at the on-screen keyboard in Windows 8. You can find additional resources, downloads, and source code on our website.
Each of the articles in this series will be published for both HTML5/JS and XAML/C#. This article is Day #15 in a series called 31 Days of Windows 8.