Comments on: Hey programmers! We’re down here! http://hand2mouth.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/hey-programmers-were-down-here/ reviews of assistive tech, how-to, etc. Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:31:21 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Marko http://hand2mouth.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/hey-programmers-were-down-here/#comment-278 Marko Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:48:28 +0000 http://hand2mouth.wordpress.com/?p=433#comment-278 As most programmers are concerned it would be best if one day they wake up and all of the people with disability of some kind is gone from their perfect little mouse-keyboard world. And that Linux Zen ideology is fine and all but what is a person with disability supposed to do in terminal oriented operating system? Spend little of it's strength left on chasing apt-get install on semi-working on-screen keyboard? I say no. Viva La Revolución! As most programmers are concerned it would be best if one day they wake up and all of the people with disability of some kind is gone from their perfect little mouse-keyboard world. And that Linux Zen ideology is fine and all but what is a person with disability supposed to do in terminal oriented operating system? Spend little of it’s strength left on chasing apt-get install on semi-working on-screen keyboard? I say no. Viva La Revolución!

]]> By: hand2mouth http://hand2mouth.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/hey-programmers-were-down-here/#comment-277 hand2mouth Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:01:18 +0000 http://hand2mouth.wordpress.com/?p=433#comment-277 Wow. I figured development would be bad, but yikes. :-( Yeah -- it doesn't seem like auto-clicking would be a difficult feature for them to add. But in the meantime, Point-N-Click is supposed to be very good, and it's free besides. http://www.polital.com/pnc/ Wow. I figured development would be bad, but yikes. :-(

Yeah — it doesn’t seem like auto-clicking would be a difficult feature for them to add. But in the meantime, Point-N-Click is supposed to be very good, and it’s free besides.
http://www.polital.com/pnc/

]]> By: Marko http://hand2mouth.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/hey-programmers-were-down-here/#comment-275 Marko Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:14:03 +0000 http://hand2mouth.wordpress.com/?p=433#comment-275 It's sad... even gnome's ATK hasn't been seriously worked on since 2005 and it would be the foundation for working speech recognition. Gnome markets as user friendly desktop. Most sad is that MS windows even has no "auto mouse click" tool. It’s sad… even gnome’s ATK hasn’t been seriously worked on since 2005 and it would be the foundation for working speech recognition. Gnome markets as user friendly desktop. Most sad is that MS windows even has no “auto mouse click” tool.

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