A method facilitates viewing of DICOM medical images by providing a 16-bit DICOM image on a computer readable storage medium, text-converted metadata of the DICOM image and an html-compatible conversion of the DICOM pixel data on a computer readable storage medium. The DAV mechanism visually associates data items, affinities, and relationships for large-volume data. The keyboard may have a thumb region, a palm rest region and a hypothenar rest region which are discrete parts and are adjustable relative to one another along a longitudinal axis.