Features/Accessibility virtual keyboard

Summary

Presents a virtual keyboard to users handicapped.

Owner

• Name: Esteban Arias
• Email: earias at plan.ceibal.edu.uy

Current status

• Targeted release: 0.88
• Last updated: 25/01/2010
• Percentage of completion: 80%

Detailed Description

In uruguay, we developed activity EscribirEspecial to children handicapped (http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4265). EscribirEspecial has a system scanning buttons to write and the activity writes on abiword.

When active the scanning, start scanning in a linear, if the user click on box of virtual keyboard, start scanning the buttons (letters) of this line, and again the user click on virtual keyboard and write this letter. This allows for example if the user can press click but can not move mouse or use the default keyboard.

Now, the idea are develop a virtual keyboard for sugar repositories to write on diferent activities or diferent text entries of sugar.

Benefit to Sugar

Users with handicapped will be able to write on diferent activities or diferent text entries of sugar.

Scope

We started development virtual keyboard in spanish as an globalkey extension, with keyboard layout and keyboard type laptop xo.

UI Design

Virtualkeyboard.png

How To Test

Features/Accessibility virtual keyboard/Testing

User Experience

When the user press <Alt+k>, will show virtual keyboard.

Dependencies

We use python-xlib to write on diferent text entries of the interface and gtk.dialog to show the virtualkeyboard.

Contingency Plan

None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.

Documentation

http://shallowsky.com/software/crikey/

Release Notes

We have development virtual keyboard in spanish, with keyboard layout and keyboard type laptop xo.

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