Re: Hands Free Mouse Issues

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Henrik,

> > There are two head-mice that present themselves as USB mice: the 
> > Madentec Tracker (see 
> > http://www.madentec.com/products/comaccess/tracker/tracker.html) and 
> > Origin Systems HeadMouse (see 
> > http://orin.com/access/headmouse/index.htm).  Both cost roughly $1,000.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > It would be great to have these inexpensive options supported on UNIX 
> > (anyone wanna writer a driver?), but that isn't today.
> >   
> >     
>
> I agree with Peter that those are the devices that are known to work, 
> but it would be very nice to get the SmartNav or similar working since 
> it's so affordable. Perhaps I should get one and challenge the Ubuntu 
> community to write a driver ...

Or perhaps a Google Summer of Code accessibility project?


Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.