Archive for the ‘Typing’ Category
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
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Combining pointing devices with keyboards is great for those with limited reach / movement and mouth stick users. ThinkPad keyboards are fantastic. To have em as a desktop kb would be great.
[New ThinkPad keyboard features crowdsourced design, lower price]
Related posts:Adesso compact wireless keyboard
Colourfull keyboard
Colour-coded Keyboard ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
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Nice compact, wi-fi keyboard, useful for limited reach. And no cords.
Non-multi touch pad is a positive in my opinion.
Would love to test the pad.
[via engadget ]
Related posts:ThinkPad keyboard with TrackPoint
Ergodex customisable input system now for Mac
Miniguru keyboard
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
This keyboard has color coded keys to teach consonants vs. vowels in order to assist kids become better spellers as well as different colors for the control keys and numbers..
I figure the extra visual feedback offered by the colour coding on this keyboard has to have additional application in areas ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
A video demo of Dasher. A single finger interface that allows you to enter text without a keyboard. Dasher is free software, and it works in all languages, and on many platforms.
Keyboards are inefficient for two reasons: they do not exploit the redundancy in normal ... all » language; and they ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
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When I heard about this Ergodex customisable keyboard on a podcast I immediately thought it would have uses in Assistive Technology circles and yes, they do already have information on such application of the device.
As it happens, this device has been around a ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
After my previous post about the "Touch Barrier" as referring to the inherent issues of the pervasive use of touch technologies I had some good responses.
@lucychili pointed me to work Peter Hutterer is doing with MPXLaurel wrote a blog post "Disabilities social networks games" pointing to a article DISABLED ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
All throughout my life with technology I've used add-on software to help kludge my way around. Macs had accessibility features built right in from the word go - though mouse-drags were problematic. DOS & early Windows required external software to handle mouse-drags until the click-lock functions appeared in XP. It ...
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Sunday, February 19th, 2006
"Keys-U-See large print keyboards have been designed specifically for those with conditions that cause visual impairment or low vision.
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These large print keyboards are also perfect for those who simply have a hard time seeing the existing commands on thir keyboards. With a bigger and bolder typeface, the keys are easier ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
There's a great extension for the equally great open source email program, Thunderbird called QuickText.
This bit of software is installed in Thunderbird and acts like a macro typing device that can input long pieces of text with few keystrokes or the click of a button. QuickText is especially for ...
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
These coloured keyboards are aimed at the childrens market.
I wonder though if they could be useful for anyone with colour perception issues or who might require some added visual clues to assist with typing. The culours offer great contrast and the grouping of similar function keys by colour could help ...
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