the gnome ui has an extensive set of features geared around making the system more accssible... On your own system if you do a yum -y install gok and then enable it in the preferences, assistive technology support dialog, and then restart your windows manager you can try out the onscreen keyboard to get started... the gnome accessibility projects website is here: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/. On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Peter Reed wrote: > 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. > Peter Reed > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
