Why couldn't they learn using traditional qwerty or dvorak which is
much cheaper.
That would be easier than typing 6 key entry on a full sized keyboard
with a bunch of other keys for the user to trip over and get confused
by.
Justin Harford
"A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance
with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is
likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become."
Fawn M. Brodie
On May 27, 2007, at 4:41 AM, Mark Williamson wrote:
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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