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
How To Test
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.