From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 5 17:55:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA20906 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 17:55:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA20901 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 17:55:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp id AA02689; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:55:01 +0900 Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.4W/zodiac-May96) with ESMTP id KAA26516; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:01:12 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199710060101.KAA26516@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: dcarmich@mcs.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Update on accessibility w/FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Oct 1997 16:36:45 EST." <199710042136.QAA00718@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net> References: <199710042136.QAA00718@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 10:01:11 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >One manufacturer of augmentative/alternative communication and assistive devic >es (Prentke Romich Company (or PRC), http://www.prentrom.com) makes a box that > translates the infrared output or RS-232 output of the communication device i >nto standard PS/2 keyboard/mouse signals. [...] >Ideas: >1) Make an on-screen keyboard that fits into the XKB framework and injects key >strokes into the X server. Have you looked at `xkeycaps'? I think it has a feature to stuff key code to another window when a key in the graphical representation of the keyboard is clicked. Kazu >2) Hack the console driver to only require one key (which could be defined on >the device's keyboard) to switch to a certain VT (and distribute FreeBSD with >all eleven VTs (leaving 1 free for X) enabled) >3) Hack the X server to also display the current window in focus out on the se >rial line back to the device's LCD screen >(any more?)