Making the most of SwitchXS

By Ricky Buchanan • March 22, 2008

Marie-France Bru taught mathematics when she was able to, but has now been paralysed by ALS. She uses SwitchXS to access her computer with a single switch and has written extensive web pages describing her ultra-efficient SwitchXS writing method.

Here’s a video showing her typing with a previous version of SwitchXS:

Her aim with the writing method is to get things done with the smallest possible amount of effort - using a single switch it usually takes a user several switch presses to type just one letter, so efficiency is important. The web pages explain not just how her SwitchXS panels are arranged but why, so others can replicate the method while adapting it to their own needs. In fact, I have used ideas sparked by her descriptions for my own KeyStrokes keyboards which I will share at some point.

Website: SwitchXS writing method

- Ricky Buchanan, ATMac

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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 33 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websitse she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

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