On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:09 +0100, Steve Lee wrote: > 2008/7/28 Rick Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Are there any utilities out there that let you control whether the > > scroll wheel is going just act as a scroll wheel or just as a middle > > mouse button? My dexterity is such that there are times I'm scroll > > through a page in Firefox and find I'm way off in web space somewhere > > else because I've accidental click the wheel. Or likewise in most > > application I can't click on something because I can't hold the scroll > > wheel still and click it at the same time. A utility that lets you > > toggle from the keyboard the meaning of the scroll wheel would great. > > hmm, the general mouse settings do indeed seem to be missing any > options for middle wheel and button. > > I also seem to be a heavy scroller as i often get an 'invalid URL' > error when I'm scrolling with the wheel in FF. > So I just looked in Firefox's about:config and setting > middlemouse.contentLoadURL to false does the trick for me. There's > also a middlemouse.openNewWindow but I'm not sure when that comes into > effect. >
I couldn't get back to this yesterday, but I would like to know if I'm seeing a lack of a good tool/utility set for people with hand dexterity issues? This scroll wheel problem is just one of many that users like me face. Re-mapping the keyboard and mouse, keyboard/mouse audio feedback control, keyboarding and mousing user performance tacking and analysis for usability tuning, a general purpose typing accelerator/word predictor, are just a few utilities beyond the current keyboard accessibility features that need to be included into a common utility set for the user. Some of these are somewhat available in different parts of the system but it's a real job for a user to find them and work with them, as well as learning to get an handle on ones own needs. -- Rick Berger _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
