We are often asked about ways of assisting younger students learning to use the mouse – to avoid their confusion over using the right and left mouse buttons. Inadvertently clicking on the right mouse button can result in them opening up all sorts of unwanted menus – ending up with your students landing in areas of the computer you’d rather them not to be exploring! For this reason, the Chester Mouse has been very popular since we added it to the Spectronics website a few months ago. It is a tiny single-button mouse with no scroll wheel, that’s easy to control, and does not offer a right mouse button click at all.
Another option for “disabling” the right mouse button is to look at a freeware program from AnyCom in Sweden. Click here to view more details about the downloadable OneButton software. This neat little utility sits in your computer’s System Tray and is available for turning your right mouse button on and off.
These options are obviously also helpful for assisting students who cannot isolate their index finger movement sufficiently to click only one button.
