Ergonomic Keyboard Required

All you or any of us can do is submit feedback

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

If the market demand is there, I'm sure Apple as well as others (logitech for example) would be making these for sale.

There are some suppliers other than MS too

http://www.trulyergonomic.com/store/index.php

also Kinesis Corp. and Fentek Industries make some several specialized keyboards and support OS X.

I've never used any of these but some reviews seem to rate them all quite well.

I didn't feel like waiting -- I just made my own. So at the very least, Apple now has a prototype they can work from.

I put this into the Apple feedback. Maybe if there was a concerted effort by everybody, things might happen. But we need thousands to let Apple know.

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Please, for the sake of all us Mac people be we desktop and/or mobile users, be aware that there is a desperate need for the Apple products to have the option of a true ergonomic keyboard similar to what Adesso used to offer with their Tru-Form line (but now backlit).

Take a look at your keyboards; small, compact, certainly NOT diverse and almost totally useless to those of us who suffer with any form of physical disability associated with their hands and/or wrists. I cannot believe that Apple, which has continually demonstrated how important the human interface is with the product, still continually turns a blind eye to this area. Apple is now big enough to make once again one like you did back in the 80's & '90's. Please.

Thank you. Apple since 1979 & **** proud of it.

I totally understand where you are coming from with the ergonomic keyboard situation. I was having all sorts of wrist pain and the best thing I ever did was get a vertical mouse. After about a week my pain was gone. Probably not the answer you are looking for but it sure helped me! :)

ifreecarve how much would you charge for one of your ergonomic models? I think i'd like to buy one if you can make another

A great solution I've found is to buy any normal ergonomic keyboard - I chose a microsoft sculpt, which is a great keyboard IMO - certainly helps a lot with my RSI:

https://www.microsoft.com/hardware/_base_v1/products/sculpt-ergonomic-desktop/mk _SEDT_large.jpg

Then simply used keyboard stickers (£1 from ebay - search for 'Keyboard layout stickers') to change the letters that weren't matched right; in my case @ " | and ~.

Get letters that match the finish of your keyboard; I went for matte black and barely even notice them. If you're bothered by the windows/alt vs. option/cmd key, you can craft 'alt' and 'cmd' out of the remaining letters on your stickers (in the case of MS Sculpt, get small letters, not chunky ones as it'll look tidier).

I didn't bother doing the latter, but anyway the end result is an excellent ergo keyboard for mac, way less expensive than the custom options available.

use the ms sculpt too in both OS X and windows love it to bits

I forgot to say; you can also remap the function keys to the proper apple layout using karabiner:

http://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/

I have the same problem, not for me, but for an employee. I don't want to have a big learning curve to operate a keyboard (as with karabiner). Just make an eg keyboard with the Mac functions. The MS keyboard she's currently using just isn't Mac. Come on Apple, make one that "just works."

I started a new job a few weeks ago and just went searching today.

Feedback sent.

I certainly hope someone at Apple is listening....

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