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- Quick note: Wireless/Bluetooth Kensington Expert trackball
- Mobility aid review: MTip crutch tip
- Stop mouse settings from reverting in Windows 10: X Mouse Button Control
- “Touch typing” with an on-screen keyboard: Virtual Keyboard meets Window Eyes
- Fire IE: trick Dragon and websites into thinking you’re using Internet Explorer (sometimes)
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Tag Archives: assistive technology
Quick note: Wireless/Bluetooth Kensington Expert trackball
Someone asked about typing on a tablet with a trackball. Until dwell clicking gets the bugs worked out (Therapy Box’s Mouse Trak) or doesn’t require specialized purchases (Unique Perspectives’ Dwell Click), your best bet is something like a switch-adapted L-trac … Continue reading
Posted in Disability, Technology
Tagged Android, arthritis, assistive technology, cerebral palsy, Kensington, pointing devices, RSI, tablets, trackballs
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Mobility aid review: MTip crutch tip
Disclaimer: I received this product for free in exchange for an honest review. I’ve come to think of crutch tips as shoes, since the stick parallels the leg; this is particularly true for people who use two crutches and/or swing … Continue reading
Posted in Disability
Tagged arthritis, assistive technology, cerebral palsy, Millennial crutch, mobility aids, scoliosis
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Stop mouse settings from reverting in Windows 10: X Mouse Button Control
When I’m not using speech recognition, I’m using my trackball. My trackball drives everything, including my on-screen keyboard. Also, some of Dragon’s mouse commands rely on the Windows mouse settings. Therefore, I was rather peeved when I discovered that a … Continue reading
“Touch typing” with an on-screen keyboard: Virtual Keyboard meets Window Eyes
Note: The following will not work for typing in scan mode–only for a pointing device and a switch assigned to clicking. However, if your pointing device emulates a mouse using switches, that will work. I posted before that I had … Continue reading
Fire IE: trick Dragon and websites into thinking you’re using Internet Explorer (sometimes)
I noticed recently that some sites I used at work didn’t display properly in Firefox, whether I had Flash enabled or not. At home, I couldn’t read the comments on sites that used the Disqus commenting system. They worked fine … Continue reading
Posted in Disability, Technology
Tagged assistive technology, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Firefox, speech recognition, voice recognition
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Reviews: SpeechWare TravelMike and SpeechWare 3-in-1 TableMike
I was having one problem after another recently with the Andrea Superbeam microphone and its drivers. So, even though my budget kind of hurt for it, I bought a SpeechWare 3-in-1 TableMike.
Online resources for lipreading/speechreading
Something struck me the other day–for all that deaf and hard of hearing people are encouraged to lipread/speechread, there aren’t a lot of classes offered for it around here. You can always practice with DVDs with captions on, or–now that … Continue reading
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Tagged assistive technology, daily living aids, deafness, hard of hearing, lipreading
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Vocola commands for interactive fiction
It’s possible to dictate into many interactive fiction interpreters, such as Win Glulxe or Windows Frotz, but there are occasionally glitches–words run together, or the correction command doesn’t work right. These commands minimize the possibility of run-together words by inserting … Continue reading
King’s Quest 3 Redux: Point-and-click/switch access goes retro
I can’t really play computer games outside of interactive fiction. That’s all right, though; I’m a word person, and playing the contemporary games reminds me of playing things like Moonmist vicariously on my neighbor’s Tandy. I was also interested in … Continue reading
Posted in Disability, Games, Technology
Tagged assistive technology, cerebral palsy, computer games, pointing devices, switch access
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Onscreen keyboards and word prediction with screen readers: incompatibilities
Someone asked me about onscreen keyboards and keystroke or word echo software. There’s something about onscreen keyboards that screen readers don’t seem to like, at least if the onscreen keyboard includes word prediction or word completion. The common feature of … Continue reading
Hand to Mouth: Assistive Technology 