Category: Primary Keyboard Users
For users whose main method of computer interaction is via the keyboard and who are unable or unwilling to use a pointing device like a mouse, or find it difficult to use a pointing device.
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Kati’s Story: Ataxia and Computers
Kati has written about her search for assistive technology to help her do as much as she is able with her progressive ataxia. She has settled on an iMac based system with a joystick and KeyStrokes software which enables her to do all the things she wants – including make provisions for possible future disability.
Creating Keyboard Shortcuts With Spark
Spark is a powerful, and easy to use shortcuts manager. You can use it to set “hot keys” to open applications and documents, execute AppleScripts, control iTunes, trigger menu items, and more.
M Cubed Pledges Software Accessibility
Martin Pilkington of M Cubed Software has made a blog post entitled The Accessible Mac. In the post he discusses the challenges and difficulties involved in making OS X software accessible. Martin pledges that all M Cubed’s software will be fully accessible by the end of 2009, challenging fellow developers to do the same.
All I Want For Christmas Is Power!
Power’s what assistive technology gives us, really. The power to communicate, to read, to type, to plan, to play, to control things. The power to achieve things that we couldn’t otherwise achieve. Here are some ideas for gifts to empower assistive technology users.
Simple Keyboard Shortcuts To Save You Time
Keyboard shortcuts are a quick way of getting many things done without needing to access the menus or the mouse. If you know to press command-s to save your work, you’ve used a keyboard shortcut. For people who primarily use a keyboard or a switch interface, using keyboard shortcuts can save a lot of time and effort.
ClickNoMo – Dwell Clicking Saves Wrists
You probably click your mouse hundreds of times a day, thousands of times a week. ClickNoMo lets you rest your tendons while you continue to work and get things done by automatically clicking the mouse for you when you bring the mouse to a short stop in any one position. You can select left mouse click, right mouse click, double click, or even click-and-drag, as you need to.
Finder's Keyboard Shortcuts
It’s no surprise to most Mac users that you can use arrow keys to navigate through Finder windows. What many new Mac users don’t realize though is that there are Command versions of these arrow keys which also have useful functions.
Context Sensing & Assistive Technology Study – Chicago
The Laboratory for Understanding Collaborative Technology at Northwestern University is working on a project to build and evaluate new original technologies for users with disabilities. They are currently recruiting subjects with a variety of impairments (cognitive, sensory or motor) from the Chicago area.
BBAutoComplete – Typing Enhancer
BBAutoComplete adds word auto-completion to scriptable applications. You type the start of a word, press a key, and BBAutoComplete types the letters to complete the word. If BBAutoComplete guessed wrong, you can keep pressing the key to cycle through other possible completions.
Tilt, Turn, Shake – iPhone Games Using Alternate Inputs
The iPhone and iPod touch come with very accurate accelerometers – the programs which are running can know when the device is being moved, and how much/how far/which direction it’s being moved. Game developers have taken advantage of this capability to develop some games which just rely on the device being moved or shaken!
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