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" -- /\o Aaron M Matteson - http://cryptosystem.us /\/ GnuPG key fingerprint is in the header /\ Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, / \ it should be hard to understand! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML Email! \ / X All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander / \ are lost --jrr tolkien
