RE: Limiting mouse movement to specific axes - vertical, horizontal, or maybe diagonal

  • From: "Rasmussen, Lloyd" <lras@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 09:16:50 -0500

Window-Eyes has a function for limiting mouse movement to vertical or 
horizontal directions.  I don't see it used very often by anyone, and people 
have probably forgotten that it exists.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress   202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the 
Library of Congress, NLS.


From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jacob Kruger
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:39 AM
To: Rasmussen, Lloyd; ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Limiting mouse movement to specific axes - vertical, horizontal, or 
maybe diagonal

I know this is a little off-topic, but just thinking that sometimes, in some 
types of situations, it might be useful/nice to use a physical mouse, but maybe 
limit the cursor movement to only vertical, horizontal, or diagonal axes, etc., 
and aside from handling mouse movement in certain specific apps, and then sort 
of correcting it, I was just wondering if there might be some utilities etc. 
out there to help you handle this easily enough, and, while I can make use of 
the jaws cursor to do this, and in fact made real use of drag and drop just the 
other day for the first time using the jaws cursor, this type of thing might 
also be nice to be able to use sometimes when jaws isn't active as such.

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

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