From ALS Digest #1070 (18 August 2002)
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by "Steve Milliss" mavin@rivernet.com.au
Date : 14 Aug 2002
My name is Steve (39 years old), in February 1999 he was in hospital
and diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the disease
that took Hall of Famer Yankee first baseman Lou Gehrig's life. The
illness has caused muscle waste & tone in my arms, hands, shoulders,
legs and my speech has been slurring. Three years down the tracks and
I'm as positive as ever about beating the diagnosis.
Would you please include this in the next ALS Digest?
I would like to recommend the Click-N-Type on-screen virtual keyboard.
The Click-N-Type is an on-screen virtual keyboard designed for anyone
with a disability that prevents him or her from typing on a physical
computer keyboard. As long as the person can control a mouse, trackball
or other pointing device, he or she can send keystrokes to virtually
any Windows application or DOS application that can run within a window.
Click-N-Type is a 32 bit application that requires Windows 95 or later.
There are other virtual keyboards around but you'll find Click-N-Type
the easiest to use for getting text into those uncooperative places like
browser URL "Address:" fields, Email "To:" addresses, Email "Subject:"
fields, dialog boxes like "Open" and "Save As...", and many other
problematic applications. Try them all. You'll see they all work fine
while typing into Notepad or WordPad, but when you attempt to do some
real work, you'll get really annoyed really fast. Click-N-Type was
designed with ease of use foremost in mind. It has enabled me to
continue access to my computer.
Oh yes, it's FREE. If you need it, you can have it. I've seen too many
people trying to make money off the disabled.
Of course, if you'd like to drop a line to CNT@LakeFolks.com with any comments, I guess I couldn't stop you. If you do, we can keep you informed of any fixes and/or future enhancements.
You can get the software at this address:
http://members.ac.net/~lakerat/cnt/
Thanks Steve Milliss