So, bought myself a keykron Be six Pro keyboard. I am absolutely Loving it. My only question is, is it possible for us to remap the keyboard? Iām asking because on the top of the keyboard on the right side on the top of the numpad, from what I can tell the three buttons from right to left are control right arrow, control Left arrow, and a button that Open spotlight, or if switch to windows, it seems to be control tab. The point is, I want to remap those keys into pause and play, mute, and volume up and Down. Can this be done via keykron's keykron launcher web appThe app is accessible on mac, but the remapping section doesn't seem to be as accessible. Is this part accessible in windows? I don't mind asking for sighted help if need with the remapping but thought I'd ask before going that approach.
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It is not really accessible
It is accessible in terms that voiceover is able to read 95% of the elements on the website but the interface and user experience is not at all friendly for screen reader users.
I dare say you could give it a try however the experience of doing it is extremely cumbersome and frustrating for VoiceOver users
Following this...
I got the Keycron Max Numberpad for Christmas from Mother, so I'm interested to know how this works. I've only patched shortcuts through Steam for now but could get very interesting if I can config the layers to different use cases.
It's a lot heavier than I anticipated, despite reading it's specs. I'm not sure how often I'll be chucking it in my bag for travel... Unless I need a weapon.
How's the full sized keyboard? I am now rather tempted. There is something delicious about the tactility of it... And the noise... I love being Open obnoxious... though I think you all know that by now.
Mapping keyboard
I recently purchased one of these keyboards. Yes, the keyboard can be remapped, but I needed sighted assistance. I am using JAWS and Windows 11. Very nice keyboard otherwise though!
--Pete
You're gonna need to flash the firmware
Keychron's keyboards run either QMK or ZMK which means you can manually flash the firmware. I tracked down the keymap location in Keychron's fork of ZMK https://github.com/Keychron/zmk/tree/keychron_bpro/app/boards/shields/keychron/b6
I only have experience with QMK, but ZMK has directions for building firmware using github actions https://zmk.dev/docs/user-setup
I don't know the specific keycodes or nuances of ZMK. This is what I could find with a few searches, so I can't offer help beyond this post.
here's the B6 Pro user guide https://www.keychron.com/pages/keychron-b6-pro-user-guide
Keychron has the factory firmware as well as instructions for flashing the firmware of the B6 pro https://www.keychron.com/blogs/archived/how-to-use-the-launcher-web-app-or-manually-flash-firmware-for-your-b-pro-series-keyboard