| tags: programming
For my video switch I want to be able to synthesize key events that look like they originated from the keyboard. The function SendInput in the user32.dll looks like the right low-level goods but Pete points out that the WScript.Shell has a SendKeys method that is easier to use. The Python code looks like:
| tags: blind, enabling technology, ideas, literacy
I describe an idea for a simple and inexpensive tactile display and keyboard for Braille. The key simplification enabling this design is displaying Braille on six finger tips instead of as six tiny dots under one finger tip. The display is arranged in the same format as standard Braille embossers so users read and write in a reciprocal fashion. The display and keyboard might be useful for teaching Braille to blind children, as a communication system for deaf-blind people, and as a reading aid for blinded adults whose fingers are not sufficiently sensitive to read traditional Braille.
| tags: ideas, links, enabling technology
I should investigate progress in simple face detection methods. These could be the basis of a simple head-switch.
| tags: programming, links
Could be applied to lots of Linux apps. http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3874468
| tags: programming, enabling technology
Very interesting collection of posts on xpcom, mozilla, python, etc. over at BSBlog . I'd love to make the browser the platform for our applications for kids with disabilities. Sound is the key limitation. Should we do our own extension for sound?
| tags: ideas, links, enabling technology
TC sent this link to cheap Donkey Kong Bongos . If we can figure out how to interface to USB these could be cool for a music game.
| tags: programming, ideas, links, enabling technology
| tags: enabling technology, links
Comes highly recommended and is available in the Information & Library Science Library
| tags: enabling technology, links
Scratch looks interesting. What can we learn from it about educational content for kids with disabilities?
| tags: programming, links
Interesting post over at ZDNet by Dion Hinchcliffe on approaches to creating Rich Internet Applications. Talks about Flash, OpenLazlo, AJAX, and others.