Hebrew keyboard key (or pressing Caps Lock) in Windows produces the uppercase Latin letter without the need to switch layouts. There are a variety of layouts that, for the most part, follow the phonology of the letters on a Latin-character keyboard such as the QWERTY or AZERTY. Where no phonology mapping is possible, or where multiple Hebrew letters map to a single Latin letter, a similarity in shape or other characteristic may be chosen. For instance, if ס ("samech") is assigned to the S key, ש (shin/sin) may be assigned to the W key, which it arguably resembles. The shift key is
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard increase, since thinking speed is a much larger factor than writing speed. This would contrast with a verbatim transcription, which would rely much more heavily on keyboard layout for efficiency. Although the Dvorak design is the only other keyboard design registered with ANSI and is provided with all major operating systems, attempts to convert universally to the Dvorak design have not succeeded. The failure of the Dvorak pattern to displace the QWERTY pattern has been the subject of some studies. A discussion of the Dvorak pattern is sometimes used as an exercise by management consultants to illustrate the difficulties of