Re: Most popular switch devices

[Gregg Vanderheiden <gv trace wisc edu>]

There are also accessibility controls that use high order Function keys .  (EZ Access Keypad uses F17 to F24 for example to avoid other keyboard keys.)   Don't think it would apply here but if we are logging different ways that people connect access things to PCs via mouse or keyboard - I thought I would mention.    

Gregg
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Gregg Vanderheiden Ph.D.
Director Trace R&D Center
Professor Industrial & Systems Engineering
and Biomedical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison

On Jun 22, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Peter Korn wrote:

David,

There is a broad class of switches that appear as USB mouse buttons.  This includes both dedicated USB devices like the Tash USB Mini Switch, as well as simple switches that connect to a little "concentrator" that maps each switch to a different USB mouse button.

So in addition to the recommendation for supporting joystick controllers, you should definitely support anything that appears to be a USB mouse button.


Peter

On 6/22/2010 8:29 AM, David Pellicer wrote:

Hi all, 

We are working on a scanning module for Caribou. At the moment our idea
is to support switch devices that simulate mouse buttons and keyboard
keys. In the roadmap of Caribou [0] there is a mention to "an official
switch device", which is that device?
Thanks for your help.

David.

[0] http://live.gnome.org/Caribou

  

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