On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 15:15 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > My old mum is brilliant, but she just can't seem to use a mouse. Her > favourite habit is to keep the button pressed while moving, followed > closely my jerking the mouse all over the place while trying to click. > > Bless her, she just petrified by computers, because she thinks they > never do the same thing twice. > > Obviously, she's got XP, and uses it so infrequently that Krap-spazki > and update don't let her do anything for the first half hour and she > gets discouraged. > > I'll go up and change it to Avira with XP or better still 10.04, but in > the meantime does anybody know where I can get an external version of > the Laptop Trackpad to replace her mouse, so she can point and shoot > separately? > Much obliged, > Simono > >
Funny I was thinking about this sort of thing last night. One of my students used to use a joystick instead of a mouse, and a disabled guy I worked with used the BigTrack trackball as shown at abilitynet.org.uk. The document from abilitynet also shows other devices. One of teh problems my M-in-L (89) has with a scratchpad is leaving her fingers resting on it, or tapping her fingers while thinking. Peter -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-07-06 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
