To even get faster minimize and mazimize action, check out winkey.
It's a free utility which enhances the windows key on your keyboard. I
have it set right now that when I press windows key and up arrow, it
will maximize any window I find myself in.
It's great.
Martin
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From: VICUG-L: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos
Sent: September 13, 2002 1:16 PM
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Subject: Re: mouse for the blind
Oh joy. Another one. HOw much will this improve access really? Oh sure,
you will be able to feel what is on the screen but that will not make
one use the computer faster. If you want to minimize an application one
can alt-space then n. How long will it take to use your bump-finding
mouse and look for the right minimize button at the top right corner 2
graphics in from said corner? No thanks, I'll stick with keyboard access
plus the mouse functions I get with my screen reader.
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Subject: mouse for the blind
> Scientists Develop Computer Mouse for the Blind
> Mon Sep 9, 9:32 AM ET
>
> LEICESTER, England (Reuters) - Scientists looking for ways to help
> blind people get more out of computers have developed a mouse that
> goes bump and combined it with sound representations of graphs that
> would otherwise be inaccessible.
>
> Mike Burton of Glasgow University told reporters at the British
Association
> for the Advancement of Science (
> news -
> web sites)
> annual festival the mouse vibrated every time it met a line on a
> graph, giving a blind operator a tactile tip-off.
>
> "The technique is a very good way of presenting information to blind
> and sighted people," he said. "The bottom line is that the cheapest
> and most flexible solution works."
>
> Likening the jumping mouse to electronic Braille, Burton said one of
> the most daunting tasks facing visually impaired people was trying to
assimilate
> information
> giving an overview of data or events.
>
> Reinforcing the tactile jolt of the mouse, fellow Glasgow University
> scientist Stephen Brewster said his team had developed sound graphs
> that could be combined with the mouse.
>
> Lines on a graph were represented by tones that would vary in pitch
> according to whether the line was rising or falling.
>
> Several such tones could be used to represent different lines of the
> same graph as the user entered a "soundscape."
>
> "You can get across quite complex information just using sound," he
> said, adding that the technique could even be of use to sighted people
> such as share traders who could be alerted on their mobile phones by a
> tone representing
a
> move up or down.
>
> He declined to speculate on the sound of a stock market crash.
>
>
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