Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:19:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Walker <walker@usc.edu> To: Pascal Hofstee <daeron@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Sticky" Keys ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006301251280.23885-100000@skat.usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000630074228.A2512@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl>
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You want accessx for X-windows. Solaris, Compaq/Digital, and SGI provide it, but I didn't see anything at www.xfree86.org Searching around the web found a version for Linux http://slappy.cs.uiuc.edu/fall98/Linux/download.html Apple has long provided good support with Easy Access. Also, Microsoft's "accessibility" support gets much better under Windows 2000, but still geared toward having you buy something better/commercial. Sticky keys allows you to press key combinations one key at a time. There are many other controls: - Slow keys makes the keys not respond until they've been held down a long time so bumping other keys won't trigger them. - Slow mouse slows mouse cursor movement. - Some of these packages allow you to use the keypad as a mouse replacement with adjustable speed. - Magnifiers - Software to read aloud menus and text Good luck, Mike >Hi, > > A co-worker of mine who is mobilly handicapped, uses a Windows > "Accessibillity option" called "Sticky Keys" ... so he can still > operate his keyboard normally, using ... let's call it a "straw" and > his mouth. > > What this does is basically the following: > >- Pressing SHIFT/CONTROL/ALT once makes that key "active" until the next > keystroke. >- Pressing SHIFT/CONTROL/ALT twice makes that key "active" until it is > pressed a third time. > > He and I have been wondering if such functionality would also be > available already or "easily" to be implemented, so he might > actually be able to use a Unix environment to work with instead of a > Windows one. >-- > Pascal Hofstee < daeron @ shadowmere . student . utwente . nl > > Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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