Hi Further to my post in the ubuntuforums I would like to request that the Accessibility Team consider making a six key entry keyboard map, or in some other way make six key entry possible.
I am in the process of seting up some Ubuntu powered computers for a school for visually impaired students in Tanzania, East Africa. The students are all taught to type using manual braille machines but these typing skills are not easily transferred to a standard 101 key keyboard. In the Windows world there are several freeware or commerical applications that allow six-key entry on a standard keyboard (perky duck is an example): http://www.brl.org/perkyduck.html Perky Duck works in Ubuntu using wine but its input is not spoken by orca and so our blind students cannot use it. At the moment I the only way I can enable six-key typing for these students is to buy a special keyboard at a high cost (more expensive than the computer itself). If there was a keyboard layout for six key entry or some other easy way to enable six-key entry it would be just wonderful and would save a cash strapped school a lot of money. Clearly it would be useful for any visually impaired person who knows how to type on a six-key braille machine. If there is an easy way to enable six-key entry which is spoken by Orca that I have not been able to find please let me know. Thanks Mark Williamson
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