[Kde-accessibility] Click and Drag

[Bill Haneman]

Hi Peter, all:

Peter of course you know this, and just had a 'slip of the fingers'; the 
feature provided for hand tremors is called "Bounce Keys", whereas the 
Slow Keys feature is primarily for folks with other kinds of motor 
control/accuracy issues.

I believe that setting the mouse double-click time to a longer value may 
make things worse, as it controls the _maximum_ time between double 
clicks, not the minimum.  I am not sure that we have a means (via the 
XKB/AccessX keyboard accessibility featureset) of setting the minimum 
mouse double-click time.

It may be that some kind of mouse button 'latching' would be even more 
effective for you; alternatively you could use MouseKeys to perform the 
mouse clicks.

Bill


Peter Korn wrote:

>Hi Deri,
>
>The "SlowKeys" feature of AccessX is typically used by folks with hand shake 
>to prevent duplicate keystrokes.  While we don't have a similarly named 
>feature for mouse clicks, you can generally set the mouse double-click time. 
>Have you tried setting a long double-click time so as to reject spurious 
>double-clicks?
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Peter Korn
>Sun Accessibility team
>
>P.S. I'm sorry if there are double-click time boundaries in KDE that might 
>prevent this from being useful to you - I'm more of a GNOME person myself...
>
>Deri James wrote:
>  
>
>>All physical disabilities pose different problems, in my case I have problems 
>>with fine motor control.
>>
>>There is one area of KDE which can cause me some frustration. Menu Items are 
>>now draggable (with cursor showing whether what you are dragging to is 
>>sensible or not (the "no entry" sign)), however, due to my hand shake, a 
>>single click is often detected as the start of a drag.
>>
>>Quite often this "drag" is a very short distance (often to itself), but 
>>because this drag is "illegal" (no entry sign) the whole menu structure is 
>>destroyed and I have to start again from the beginning.
>>
>>Is it feasible to add the following 2 rules to the logic for click & drag:-
>>
>>	If "drag" is to itself: treat as an activation (i.e. single click).
>>
>>	If "drag" is to another illegal area (no entry): ignore and keep menu "open". 
>>
>>If either of these were implemented it would be a big help for me.
>>
>>I look forward to hearing your views on this.
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Deri
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