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- From: dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa)
- Subject: Re: hand injuries
- Message-ID: <C1HoxK.5MC@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1993Jan26.003206.29170@smos.com> <1993Jan26.134536.13087@ornl.gov> <KPC.93Jan26153012@zog.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:46:31 GMT
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- In article <KPC.93Jan26153012@zog.arc.nasa.gov> kpc@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov writes:
- >i think it's an important issue that would be most cleanly solved by
- >making emacs accept sticky control keys (like the way esc can be used
- >for meta) or by using a voice interface. there is a sticky control
- >package in the archive but it didn't work well for me when i tried it
- >with v18.58.
- >
- >there's always typing with pens.
- >--
- >i'm open to comparing research career notes with other cogsci/cogneuro people.
-
- if you use some of the more common machines, the folks at the Trace
- Research Center at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) have a
- generic sticky-keys package available. (Unfortunately common system's
- seems to mean MS-loss, Windoze, and McSoftware, tho eunix versions
- might exist) they have the name AccessSystemname, and are intended for
- use by the handicapped. (They also provide keyed operation of the
- mouse, and modes to cope with people that bounce the keys, or tend to
- hit adjacent keys. Other parts provide visual beeps, audible
- indications of things like caps-lock, and substitution of input from a
- typing aid (eye activated, breath activated, etc.) connected to a
- serial port.) They are provided by the software vendors at no charge,
- in compliance with handicapped access provisions of federal
- procurement contracts. The Windoze version is in the typing injury
- directorys on soda.berkeley.edu, the DOS version will follow shortly.
-
- I urge everyone to look at the FAQ for the sci.med.occupational
- newsgroup. Occupational Overuse injuries were 60% of all new
- workplace injuries in the U.S. in 1991 (220,000 new cases), and they
- have been more common than lower back injuries for several years.
-
- This article is an example of using emacs with a voice recognition
- system. My hands started to hurt in the summer of 1991, I haven't
- been allowed to type since February of 1992, and have purchased the
- DragonDictate system to allow me to continue working.
-
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