ALS and linux
Aaron Matteson
fedora at cryptosystem.us
Sun Feb 15 22:33:14 UTC 2004
Peter Reed became daring and sent these 0.7K bytes,
> Hello everyone
> I have a friend that has ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) or Lou
> Gehrig's Disease and presently is using Windows XP which has pretty good
> support for this type of situation, however my friend would like to know
> if it would be possible for him to use linux. He is unable to use the
> keyboard and has to use the mouse exclusively. So my question is is
> there a distribution and/or software made for linux that you know of
> that would be sympathetic to a person in this situation. He would
> really like to make the switch. Any info would be a help. Thank you
> in advance.
There are a feww projects out there for "Soft Keyboards" where the user
would be able to use the mouse exclusively in order to utilize this
onscreen keyboard.
Take a peek at some options:
http://www.tracecenter.org/linux/current.html
I would also consider searching google for "linux accessibility"
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