[oats-sig] RE: Mouse and keyboard accessibility settings for GNOME desktop

(see below, think Steve meant to send this to this list!)

I like the mouse-gestures clicking idea on the dwell-click... be interesting
to try. 

One thing that would also be interesting to add would be a tremor-zoom...
if you click somewhere, it magnifies that (say 20*20) area of the screen and
then you can click again on the magnified image.... This means that people
with a tremor/reduced clicking accuracy can click on 'small' objects without
needing a good 'click-resolution'...  This has been used, for example, with
eye-gaze, but I think might be generally useful.

Maybe you could feed this in steve (if people think it is relevant) if you
are subscribed to the group...

Cheers.

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: stevealee at gmail.com [mailto:stevealee at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Steve
Lee
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:41 PM
To: info at oatsoft.org
Subject: Mouse and keyboard accessibility settings for GNOME desktop

There's a discussion on the GNOME accessibility list about the mouse and
keyboard accessibility options that will be in the next release.

2 mock-ups have been provided of the new settings dialogs.
http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/mouse.html
http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/keyboard.html

If you are a user of these features (even if on windows) or otherwise have
views please do feel free to contribute.

You can browse the thread at

http://www.nabble.com/Mousetweaks-usability-discussion-t4618166.html

at join the the mail list at

http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

--
Steve Lee
--
Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers
www.fullmeasure.co.uk

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