Sunday, February 20, 2022

Crazy keyboard at my library

 This has been bugging me for a while.   At my library you can either type in your library card number, or you can have it associated with a user name which is easier to remember.  I've chosen the user name route because it makes logging into the website easier for me.  So when you go to the actual library and go to enter your account details, it assumes you 're doing a number and presents a typical numeric keypad on the touch screen.  There's an option to get the alpha keyboard, and when you press it this is the keyboard layout you get:


It's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen in a user interface.  I mean the dangling "i" and "=" along with the "R" and "/" row?  Makes little sense.  I could imagine an assumption that a wider screen resolution was used which would make the short rows not wrap around to the next row, but that doesn't fully explain the "=" and "/" being mixed in the middle of the alphabet. 


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