Rick Berger writes: > > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:09 +0100, Steve Lee wrote: > > 2008/7/28 Rick Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Are there any utilities out there that let you control whether the > > > scroll wheel is going just act as a scroll wheel or just as a middle > > > mouse button? My dexterity is such that there are times I'm scroll > > > through a page in Firefox and find I'm way off in web space somewhere > > > else because I've accidental click the wheel. Or likewise in most > > > application I can't click on something because I can't hold the scroll > > > wheel still and click it at the same time. A utility that lets you > > > toggle from the keyboard the meaning of the scroll wheel would great. > > > > hmm, the general mouse settings do indeed seem to be missing any > > options for middle wheel and button. > > > > I also seem to be a heavy scroller as i often get an 'invalid URL' > > error when I'm scrolling with the wheel in FF. > > So I just looked in Firefox's about:config and setting > > middlemouse.contentLoadURL to false does the trick for me. There's > > also a middlemouse.openNewWindow but I'm not sure when that comes into > > effect. > > > > I couldn't get back to this yesterday, but I would like to know if I'm > seeing a lack of a good tool/utility set for people with hand dexterity > issues? This scroll wheel problem is just one of many that users like me > face. Re-mapping the keyboard and mouse, keyboard/mouse audio feedback > control, keyboarding and mousing user performance tacking and analysis > for usability tuning, a general purpose typing accelerator/word > predictor, are just a few utilities beyond the current keyboard > accessibility features that need to be included into a common utility > set for the user. Some of these are somewhat available in different > parts of the system but it's a real job for a user to find them and work > with them, as well as learning to get an handle on ones own needs. > We probably need to do better integrating the various customizations available. We also need to expand our existing specs where functionality is missing.
The Open A11y group has finished a Keyboard I/O spec which goes only so far as what is in Xkb. Perhaps this is one use case for a future rev of the spec. Janina > -- > Rick Berger > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Foundation http://a11y.org _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
