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Onscreen keyboards and word prediction with screen readers: incompatibilities
Someone asked me about onscreen keyboards and keystroke or word echo software. There’s something about onscreen keyboards that screen readers don’t seem to like, at least if the onscreen keyboard...
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King’s Quest 3 Redux: Point-and-click/switch access goes retro
I can’t really play computer games outside of interactive fiction. That’s all right, though; I’m a word person, and playing the contemporary games reminds me of playing things like Moonmist vicariously...
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Vocola commands for interactive fiction
It’s possible to dictate into many interactive fiction interpreters, such as Win Glulxe or Windows Frotz, but there are occasionally glitches–words run together, or the correction command doesn’t work...
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Online resources for lipreading/speechreading
Something struck me the other day–for all that deaf and hard of hearing people are encouraged to lipread/speechread, there aren’t a lot of classes offered for it around here. You can always practice...
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Reviews: SpeechWare TravelMike and SpeechWare 3-in-1 TableMike
I was having one problem after another recently with the Andrea Superbeam microphone and its drivers. So, even though my budget kind of hurt for it, I bought a SpeechWare 3-in-1 TableMike. The...
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Fire IE: trick Dragon and websites into thinking you’re using Internet...
I noticed recently that some sites I used at work didn’t display properly in Firefox, whether I had Flash enabled or not. At home, I couldn’t read the comments on sites that used the Disqus commenting...
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“Touch typing” with an on-screen keyboard: Virtual Keyboard meets Window Eyes
Note: The following will not work for typing in scan mode–only for a pointing device and a switch assigned to clicking. However, if your pointing device emulates a mouse using switches, that will work....
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Stop mouse settings from reverting in Windows 10: X Mouse Button Control
When I’m not using speech recognition, I’m using my trackball. My trackball drives everything, including my on-screen keyboard. Also, some of Dragon’s mouse commands rely on the Windows mouse settings....
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Mobility aid review: MTip crutch tip
Disclaimer: I received this product for free in exchange for an honest review. I’ve come to think of crutch tips as shoes, since the stick parallels the leg; this is particularly true for people who...
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Quick note: Wireless/Bluetooth Kensington Expert trackball
Someone asked about typing on a tablet with a trackball. Until dwell clicking gets the bugs worked out (Therapy Box’s Mouse Trak) or doesn’t require specialized purchases (Unique Perspectives’ Dwell...
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