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

  • From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 20:40:50 +0200

Well, at least NVDA can at least still echo what's under the mouse cursor, and 
provide a form of audio coordinate rendition, but it's just that I might want 
to limit the mouse to exactly moving horizontal, etc.

Stay well

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

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ken Perry 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:43 PM
  Subject: RE: Limiting mouse movement to specific axes - vertical, horizontal, 
or maybe diagonal


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

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