In this blog I try to give a few tips and ideas to other users for mouse control, I discovered. First thing is, as you can read about it in one of my previous blogs, to get the settings right. It might take a while to hit the right spot but trust me, it is well worth the time dedicated. When you are done with settings and are already a bit familiar with the reaction of the mouse cursor, give a try to my tips.

First of all, let me point out that the actual location of the mouse cursor is at the tip of the arrow, NOT in the middle of it. This can be confusing sometimes when you think you hit the target with the mouse and you still get a different to what was desired magnified image on the screen in front of you.

So TIP #1 is make sure that you click with the tip of the mouse pointer and not with the middle of it.

I can`t be sure about other users, but I certainly used to have a problem with the default Windows system mouse scheme pointer set. I found it too small, and especially in front of bright backgrounds was difficult to see the edges of the pointer, therefore, precise clicking proved to be a problem. I decided to dig deep into Windows Control Panel settings – Start Menu -> Control Panel -> look for pointer and / or mouse settings depending on which view you use – in the hope of finding something which works better for me. This is how I ended up with the “Windows Inverted Extra Large System Scheme” mouse pointer. It says it all in its name why this is the best choice:
- extra large size for easier visible detection
- inverted behaviour; show inverted image when over objects on the screen (e.g.: turns black on top of white and vice versa)

TIP #2 is to make sure you use the most suitable mouse cursor set for your preferences; my advice is the Windows Inverted Extra Large System Scheme mouse cursor set

There is one big problem with this though. Despite all the positive effects, at the end of the day this cursor set is just an enlarged and inverted version of the system scheme. This means, you still have to pay attention to what I wrote in the first tip.
I say the best mouse cursor set should have an inverted crosshair as the default mouse pointer with thick lines. When dwelling, the dwell clock could appear inside the crosshair to indicate how long is left of the actual activation. And, of course, all this in extra large size because we all like when things are large and well visible, don`t we?

Chris
Pro tobii user