[ale] Linux for "normal" people?

[Scott Warfield]

I refer to Sticky keys by way of the window's terminology that enables a
user to press shift, control, and alt so that the next key pressed is
applied.  The usefulness of this comes into play when a user can only time
with a single finger or other prosthetic.  It would be nice to see this as
several layers such as the kernel to allow this feature during a commandline
session, and X to be applied to all aspects of X-Windows irregardless of
window manager.

Reversing the mouse buttons is an ergonomical issue.  In my case I can
rotate my hand to the right much easier than the left, so I revearse my
buttons for ease of use.  Unfortunately, I have not had much luck using this
feature out of KDE.

I will check out that reference for speech recognition, thanks!

L8rs


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Scott Warfield
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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 1:38 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Linux for "normal" people?


Scott Warfield wrote:
> Unfortunately, the only reason that I do not use Linux as my desktop 
> is the lack of true disability integration in many aspects of the 
> system. Specifically I'm referring to Sticky keys and revearse mouse 
> keys.  I have also yet to see speech recognition that compares to any 
> of the Windows implementations.

Scott, can you ellaborate on what these are?  That is 'sticky keys and 
reverse mouse.'  Are these hardware or software?  What functionality do 
they provide?

Also, I've not done much research, but there is a company doing voice 
recognition work for linux.  Check out:

http://lumenvox.com/

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