🚀 go-pugleaf

alternatives to traditional mousing:

-- digital pads w/pens
-- track balls
-- "oversizing" the mouse pointer
-- changing tracking speed on existing mouse
-- "foot operated" mouse
-- Lynx browser

don't know about touch screens ....


Kathy


> ----------
> From:         Pamela Belfor[SMTP:pbelfor@frii.com]
> Reply To:     Pamela Belfor
> Sent:         Monday, October 05, 1998 2:57 PM
> To:   NETTRAIN@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
> Subject:      Re: searching the Net for the handicapped
>
> I am revealing my ignorance of the technology behind touch screens,
> but
> have been wondering whether they could be used to move between links
> in a
> browser, scroll down a page, etc.
>
> I am a librarian in a town of 45,000 and teach Net searching classes
> in our
> "technology lab".  I have found that occasionally a senior citizen has
> difficulty manuevering a mouse and have been looking for alternatives
> for
> such an individual.
>
> Suggestions welcomed.
>
> Pam
> pbelfor@frii.com
>