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.
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