Hot keys on drawing tablet issue

I have an Artisul D13 (not a “D13s”) and it works great for everything except Blender.

The main problem is that the buttons on the tablet don’t communicate with the Blender UI and I have to use a keyboard for the basic shortcuts (SHIFT, ALT, etc).

Does anyone know about button mapping or what type of forum, research I could investigate to solve this issue? I have contacted the company and they did a great job of updating a lot of issues, but this one is apparently not their issue…

any help of suggestions would be awesome - thanks, fellow Blender-ites! (Blender-heads? Blender-ists? Blender-ologists??? …I’ll quit while I’m behind…)