On 3/20/2018 5:35 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote: > > What is as you know the most efficient way to write text with a > head-tracking software? I'm frustrated by this kind of question because frequently, this is the wrong question. you should be asking what is the appropriate interface to enable the person with a disability to write, and more importantly, edit text. much of this thread has been proposing answers based on what's available, not what the person needs.
I can't use keyboards much because of a repetitive stress injury. I would say that the most efficient way to write text with a head tracking software is to not even try at all. It's the wrong tool. For many kinds of mobility-based disabilities (RSI, arthritis, amputation etc.) speech recognition would be a better tool. your question touches a hot spot for me because I've been living with a disability for about 25 years now. I've also seen, for the same 25 years people without disabilities proposing the same solutions over and over again, either not able to or unwilling to hear that those solutions are , at best crap, at worst humiliating. As a person with a disability, I will tell you anytime you try to emulate/simulate a mouse and keyboard with tools like on-screen keyboards, I tracking etc., you are solving the wrong problem. the right problem (my opinion) is digging into applications and revealing internal information and providing access to internal controls so that you can build an interface that matches the person's disability. It's also very important to build the interface it lets the person automate or extend that interface without counting on anybody else to create that extension. For example, my hands don't work right so if I'm going to extend my speech recognition interface, I need to do it with speech recognition. So I would go back to your disabled person and really look at what they need. If they have enough physical ability enabling them to use speech recognition, then that will make them more independent than head trackers or on-screen keyboards would ever do. --- eric _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
