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

  • From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 06:43:38 -0500

People have made things like this in the past but I have not really looked
into it lately.  I don't know why window-eyes, jaws and system access don't
take a page from Voiceover and make the touch pads and mice work like they
do on the IPhone.

 

Ken

From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jacob Kruger
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:39 AM
To: 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
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Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

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