From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 30 13:20: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from usc.edu (usc.edu [128.125.253.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F73837BC16 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:19:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walker@usc.edu) Received: from skat.usc.edu (root@skat.usc.edu [128.125.253.131]) by usc.edu (8.9.3.1/8.9.3/usc) with ESMTP id NAA25101; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skat.usc.edu (walker@skat.usc.edu [128.125.253.131]) by skat.usc.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1/usc) with ESMTP id e5UKJs101902; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:19:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Walker To: Pascal Hofstee Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Sticky" Keys ? In-Reply-To: <20000630074228.A2512@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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