On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Jason (spot) Brower wrote: > Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:03:37 +0300 > From: "Jason (spot) Brower" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Usability] Disabled "F"word guessing :) > > Not sure if this is the right place, but I have an idea for people that > can't type very fast or accurately. > My friend has MD and a very hard time hitting every key to make a word on
MD? Medical Degree? (I'm guessing muscular dystrophy? I have enough difficulty with computer acronyms, medical acronyms are even more difficult to guess.) > the screen. Wouldn't it be nice to have something that she could use that > would give options for words and somehow predict what she wants. Have you tried dasher? http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ I wish I knew more about the various accessibility software for Gnome but hopefully others can make better suggetions. > Could he have a system that would... when you begin typing show the words on > the screen that it things you are typing and you can select on of the four > words it provides from the list to speed up your data entry and make typing > less stressful? gedit does include tags plugins so if your friend was frequently typing difficult techinical terms you could probably make a list of them to cut down on the repetative typing. there may be other predictive text systems or autocomplete options but I am not as familiar with them as I might like. Speech to text software might be another option to consider. -- Alan H _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
