Good points David and Gregg. Supposedly assignment should be configurable, but do you have any suggestion for preferred defaults in this range?
Another point for Caribou: Don't forget to plan early for good support for built-in sticky keys functionality. Please DON'T do as in GOK where this is dependent on the physical keyboard AT settings! (... which is very unfortunate and illogical, as typical OSK users will not want to mess with the physical keyboard settings (making it awkward for helpers who may need to assist using the ordinary keyboard, etc.) Cheers Mats Från: Gregg Vanderheiden <[email protected]> Till: David Colven <[email protected]> Kopia: [email protected], Gnome Accessibility List <[email protected]> Datum: 2009-12-11 16:27 Ärende: Re: Ang. Re: Proposal: mouse-only Caribou for GNOME 2.30 Sänt av: [email protected] If you do such a switch control panel -- you should include switches that look like function keys 13 through 24. Some switches are encoded as those function keys that do not appear on the keyboard but are supported by keyboard encoders. Gregg ----------------------- Gregg Vanderheiden Ph.D. Director Trace R&D Center Professor Industrial & Systems Engineering and Biomedical Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison On Dec 11, 2009, at 7:39 AM, David Colven wrote: Glad I keeping some marbles. I feel what we need - and is part of the ACE contribution to AEGIS - is a central switch handler (control panel type thing) which reads switches and that any scanning program can use. The control panel would deal with all the methods and filtering and pass scan select (and more) to the scanning programs. This would eliminate the need for multiple set-ups and a lot of duplicate effort in reading switch inputs. David -----Original Message----- From: Steve Lee [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 11 December 2009 13:36 To: David Colven Cc: Mats Lundälv; [email protected]; Gnome Accessibility List Subject: Re: Ang. Re: Proposal: mouse-only Caribou for GNOME 2.30 2009/12/11 David Colven <[email protected]>: Sorry if I'm being dum - I am down with flu at the moment - but I don't see why a joystick switch inout should not do exactly what the daisy reader wants. Window will not react to input from a USB fire button unless it's told to, will ot? Yes that is exactly correct. AFAIK the foot switch was a USB HID - ie same as joystick. So the point was that sometimes having events ignored by the OS can be useful. Windows doesn't treat joysticks as first class input devices that all programs must support (like mouse and keyboard). The same with default X. I'm not familiar enough with the X switch stuff that Willie mentioned, but get the impression switch events become first class events so applications including desktop may react. As I said it was an "aside". Steve _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
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