Hi Eitan,
It's good to hear that you want to make switch scanning work in
Caribou! Feel free to contact me again when you get back to switch
access. It seems like there are tools that can be used to make a custom
Ubuntu live cd very easily. I can imagine having a live cd with Caribou
on it, so people can try it out easily. Also, I noticed that WUBI
allows alternative input methods.
David
On 4/27/2011 11:34 AM, Eitan Isaacson wrote:
Hi David!
Caribou currently has single key switch access. although it is
incomplete, and buggy. I am right now in the midst of an overhaul in
Caribou, but I would love to check back with you later when we refocus
efforts on switch access. I don't know of any switch users who are
willing to make this work, so I am happy you found this mailing list!
Cheers,
Eitan.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:43 PM, David Norwood <dnorwo...@yahoo.com
<mailto:dnorwo...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
I have had ALS for over 17 years and completely paralyzed below
the neck. I have been using an on-screen scanning keyboard
program called Skeleton Key for ten years now. Skeleton Key was
written by a brilliant person with ALS (PALS) named Dov Wisebrod,
but I'm afraid he has succumbed to this awful disease. You can
read more about my computer setup here:
http://techpals.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/thoughts-on-adaptive-computer-access-for-pals/
There are a couple bugs with Skeleton Key running under windows 7,
so I would like to try running Ubuntu on my laptop. I used to be
a Unix sysadmin on Sun systems, and I have Ubuntu running on a
headless server and on my old laptop. I use Putty and UltraVNC
to login to and control these machines. I tried to run GOK on the
old laptop about a year ago. It crashed a lot and was missing
many of the features I have come to rely on. Since then, I have
waited for single switch scanning to be added to Caribou, but I
don't think it has.
Is it okay for me to ask questions here? For example, on my old
laptop, the tab key can't be used to cycle through the buttons in
dialog boxes and the arrow keys don't work in menus. I don't
have this problem on my headless server. Is there a setting for this?
Also, I have never met another Linux geek with ALS. I would love
to correspond with any that are out there. I have many ideas for
projects that use open source software and hardware to improve the
lives of those with severe physical disability.
David
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