Isn negative tilt a feature all keyboard platforms should have?
The negative tilt feature on AKPs is designed to help people maintain more neutral wrist postures. Whether or not negative tilt should be used depends on the work, the worker, and the keyboard being used. First, understand why many keyboards have a positive slope–so you can see the keys more easily! Keyboard features like slope must balance competing parts of our anatomy, in this case, our eye/neck comfort with our wrist comfort. When using older style traditional keyboards with a steep positive slope, a negative tilt is probably a good idea. Granted, in upright postures or slightly forward leaning postures, the more positive the keyboard slope, the greater the wrist extension, and thus potential for discomfort. But in slightly reclined postures, or with newer style conventional keyboards, your wrists are already in neutral alignment without any negative tilt at all.
