[Usability] Disabled "F"word guessing :)

["Jason (spot) Brower" <encompass gmail com>]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Jason (spot) Brower wrote:

> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:03:37 +0300
> From: "Jason (spot) Brower" <
encompass gmail com>
> To: usability gnome org
> Subject: [Usability] Disabled "F"word guessing :)

>
> Not sure if this is the right place, but I have an idea for people that
> can't type very fast or accurately.
> My friend has MD and a very hard time hitting every key to make a word on

***MD?  Medical Degree?
***(I'm guessing muscular dystrophy?  I have enough difficulty with computer
***acronyms, medical acronyms are even more difficult to guess.)

Yes... Muscular Dystrophy.
> the screen.  Wouldn't it be nice to have something that she could use that
> would give options for words and somehow predict what she wants.

***Have you tried dasher?
***http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/

Yes dash is something she is working with.  But it doesn't offer the simplicity needed.  Her movements are jerky.  So with dasher is helps... but when one mistake happens she has to go way back.

***I wish I knew more about the various accessibility software for Gnome but
***hopefully others can make better suggetions.

> Could he have a system that would... when you begin typing show the words on
> the screen that it things you are typing and you can select on of the four
> words it provides from the list to speed up your data entry and make typing
> less stressful?

***gedit does include tags plugins so if your friend was frequently typing
***difficult techinical terms you could probably make a list of them to cut
***down on the repetative typing.  there may be other predictive text systems
***or autocomplete options but I am not as familiar with them as I might
***like.

Autocomplete is still not the option because she would have to go back and forth from keyboard to mouse.  I think a simple screen at the bottom that shows four guess words then you can just press one of the four sets.
But thanks... dasher was the name of the other program I was thinking of.

Speech to text software might be another option to consider.

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***Alan H

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Jason Brower
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