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Looking for advice here: A teacher asked me if it would be possible to set up a web
cam for a pupil with high spinal injury who is reclined and has very limited
head control, so that he could see more around him. He has a laptop and is an
expert chin joystick (mini point it) user. I wasn’t entirely convinced
about the whole idea but I got a Logitech Sphere AF camera (£60 from CPC) which
has pan and tilt motors and installed it on the laptop. I’m still not
sure if it helps him see around, but it was fantastic fun because he could use
the joystick to operate the controls on screen to swivel the camera, zoom in,
take photos and videos, open and edit them in Picasa etc. Opportunities for fun
and education are immense. You need to have a mouse or pointing device though, and I
was thinking it would be nice if switch users could use the camera as well. You
can control the pan and tilt with arrow keys (=> switches), but there’s
no keyboard control of the buttons for taking photos and the motor control is a
separate window, and I think HotSpots can only do one window. I think it could be done by creating macros and then assigning
macro playback keystrokes to switches, so has anyone got suggestions for a good
free/cheap macro program for Windows XP? There seems to be a zillion available Paul _______________________________________________ Paul D. Nisbet Senior Research Fellow Communication, Access, Literacy and Learning
(CALL) Tel. 0131 651 6236 Fax 0131 651 6234 email Paul.Nisbet@... CALL SQA Digital Exam Papers: http://www.AdaptedDigitalExams.org.uk
The Scottish Computer Voice: http://www.theScottishVoice.org.uk Books for All: http://www.booksforall.org.uk Books for All blog: http://pauln.edublogs.org/ WordTalk reader for Word: http://www.wordtalk.org.uk The _________________________________________________ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. |
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Re: switch operated web cams
by David Colven
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Slight commercial interest Just as a point of information Hotspots is
not restricted to one window. Spots can be set anywhere on the screen covering
more than one window. What does only react to single windows is the automatic
loading of new spot sets when new windows are opened – but you don’t
need to use that. For switch users you can access hotspots
by putting hotkey controls on each spot and activating them from an on-screen scanning
keyboard. David
Technical Advisor 01865 759813 077121 68901 Why not visit our website: www.ace-centre.org.uk
Please visit our
website: www.ace-centre.org.uk
From: Looking for advice here: A teacher asked me if it would be possible to set up
a web cam for a pupil with high spinal injury who is reclined and has very
limited head control, so that he could see more around him. He has a laptop and
is an expert chin joystick (mini point it) user. I wasn’t entirely
convinced about the whole idea but I got a Logitech Sphere AF camera (£60 from
CPC) which has pan and tilt motors and installed it on the laptop. I’m
still not sure if it helps him see around, but it was fantastic fun because he
could use the joystick to operate the controls on screen to swivel the camera,
zoom in, take photos and videos, open and edit them in Picasa etc.
Opportunities for fun and education are immense. You need to have a mouse or pointing device though,
and I was thinking it would be nice if switch users could use the camera as
well. You can control the pan and tilt with arrow keys (=> switches), but
there’s no keyboard control of the buttons for taking photos and the
motor control is a separate window, and I think HotSpots can only do one
window. I think it could be done by creating macros and then
assigning macro playback keystrokes to switches, so has anyone got suggestions
for a good free/cheap macro program for Windows XP? There seems to be a zillion
available Paul _______________________________________________ Paul D. Nisbet Senior Research Fellow Communication, Access, Literacy and
Learning (CALL) Tel. 0131 651 6236 Fax 0131
651 6234 email Paul.Nisbet@... CALL SQA Digital Exam Papers: http://www.AdaptedDigitalExams.org.uk
The Scottish Computer Voice: http://www.theScottishVoice.org.uk Books for All: http://www.booksforall.org.uk Books for All blog: http://pauln.edublogs.org/ WordTalk reader for Word: http://www.wordtalk.org.uk The _________________________________________________ |
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Re: switch operated web cams
by Robertson Zoe (Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust)
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Hi All
AutoHotkey is good for things like this. The website is useful and it is possible to quickly set up scripts to do all kinds of things.
Thanks
Zoe
From: A discussion list for Assistive Technology professionals. [mailto:ASSISTECH@...] On Behalf Of Paul Nisbet Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 10:50 AM To: ASSISTECH@... Subject: switch operated web cams Looking for advice here: A teacher asked me if it would be possible to set up a web cam for a pupil with high spinal injury who is reclined and has very limited head control, so that
he could see more around him. He has a laptop and is an expert chin joystick (mini point it) user. I wasn’t entirely convinced about the whole idea but I got a Logitech Sphere AF camera (£60 from CPC) which has pan and tilt motors and installed it on the laptop.
I’m still not sure if it helps him see around, but it was fantastic fun because he could use the joystick to operate the controls on screen to swivel the camera, zoom in, take photos and videos, open and edit them in Picasa etc. Opportunities for fun and education
are immense. You need to have a mouse or pointing device though, and I was thinking it would be nice if switch users could use the camera as well. You can control the pan
and tilt with arrow keys (=> switches), but there’s no keyboard control of the buttons for taking photos and the motor control is a separate window, and I think HotSpots can only do one window. I think it could be done by creating macros and then assigning macro playback keystrokes to switches, so has anyone got suggestions for a good free/cheap macro
program for Windows XP? There seems to be a zillion available Paul
_______________________________________________ Paul D. Nisbet Senior Research Fellow Communication, Access, Literacy and Learning (CALL)
Tel. 0131 651 6236 Fax 0131 651 6234 email
Paul.Nisbet@... CALL
SQA Digital Exam Papers:
http://www.AdaptedDigitalExams.org.uk
The Scottish Computer Voice:
http://www.theScottishVoice.org.uk Books for All:
http://www.booksforall.org.uk Books for All blog:
http://pauln.edublogs.org/ WordTalk reader for Word:
http://www.wordtalk.org.uk The
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Re: switch operated web cams
by Paul Nisbet
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Ah, right – thanks David – I’ll
have a go again _______________________________________________ Paul D. Nisbet Senior Research Fellow Communication, Access,
Literacy and Learning (CALL) Tel. 0131 651 6236
Fax 0131 651 6234 email Paul.Nisbet@... CALL SQA Digital Exam Papers: http://www.AdaptedDigitalExams.org.uk
The Scottish Computer Voice: http://www.theScottishVoice.org.uk Books for All: http://www.booksforall.org.uk Books for All blog: http://pauln.edublogs.org/ WordTalk reader for Word: http://www.wordtalk.org.uk The _________________________________________________ From:
Slight commercial
interest Just as a point of
information Hotspots is not restricted to one window. Spots can be set anywhere
on the screen covering more than one window. What does only react to
single windows is the automatic loading of new spot sets when new windows are
opened – but you don’t need to use that. For switch users you can
access hotspots by putting hotkey controls on each spot and activating them
from an on-screen scanning keyboard. David
Technical Advisor 01865 759813 077121 68901 Why not visit our
website: www.ace-centre.org.uk
Please visit our
website: www.ace-centre.org.uk
From:
Looking for advice here: A teacher asked me if it would be possible to set up a web
cam for a pupil with high spinal injury who is reclined and has very limited
head control, so that he could see more around him. He has a laptop and is an
expert chin joystick (mini point it) user. I wasn’t entirely convinced
about the whole idea but I got a Logitech Sphere AF camera (£60 from CPC) which
has pan and tilt motors and installed it on the laptop. I’m still not
sure if it helps him see around, but it was fantastic fun because he could use
the joystick to operate the controls on screen to swivel the camera, zoom in,
take photos and videos, open and edit them in Picasa etc. Opportunities for fun
and education are immense. You need to have a mouse or pointing device though, and I
was thinking it would be nice if switch users could use the camera as well. You
can control the pan and tilt with arrow keys (=> switches), but
there’s no keyboard control of the buttons for taking photos and the
motor control is a separate window, and I think HotSpots can only do one
window. I think it could be done by creating macros and then
assigning macro playback keystrokes to switches, so has anyone got suggestions
for a good free/cheap macro program for Windows XP? There seems to be a zillion
available Paul _______________________________________________ Paul D. Nisbet Senior Research Fellow Communication, Access, Literacy and Learning
(CALL) Tel. 0131 651 6236 Fax 0131 651 6234 email Paul.Nisbet@... CALL SQA Digital Exam Papers: http://www.AdaptedDigitalExams.org.uk
The Scottish Computer Voice: http://www.theScottishVoice.org.uk Books for All: http://www.booksforall.org.uk Books for All blog: http://pauln.edublogs.org/ WordTalk reader for Word: http://www.wordtalk.org.uk The _________________________________________________ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. |
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AEGIS Internati9onal Workshop - Open Source Accessibility Project
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ÆGIS 1st
Pan-European Workshop ‘Accessibility
for All: Open Source-based Generalised Accessibility Support for Mainstream ICT
Devices/Applications’ 5th June
2009, INVITATION You
can register for this and the User forum and/or Workshop at: http://www.aegis-project.eu/user_forum.html Having
affordable accessibility support into mainstream ICT devices/applications is
much wanted in the disability community. Accessible devices and applications
offer the backbone to many people with disabilities across Supported
by the 7th Framework Programme on Research and Technological
Development of the European Union, the ÆGIS (Open Source-based Generalised
Accessibility Support for Mainstream ICT) project aims to develop an Open
Accessibility Framework (OAF) through which aspects of the design, development
and deployment of accessible mainstream ICT are addressed. The OAF will provide
developers with embedded and built-in accessibility solutions, as well as
toolkits for “engraving” accessibility in existing and emerging
mass-market ICT-based products, thus making accessibility open, plug and play,
personalised and configurable, realistic and applicable in various contexts.
Simultaneously, the project will provide Open Source Accessible Desktop
Applications to the end-users (people with disabilities, older people) On
behalf of the ÆGIS Consortium, we kindly invite you to participate in its first
Pan-European Workshop that will take place on Friday 5th June 2009
at Research In Motion UK Ltd, Slough, This
workshop will present the preliminary findings of the project related to the
Use Cases selection and preliminary user requirements, thus stimulating
discussions on these issues between both end-users and application developers. Its outcome will be
taken into account by the Consortium during the further course of the project.
Key stakeholders from relevant areas are expected to participate (such as end
users’ representatives and organisations, EC representatives,
technologies developers, etc.). This workshop therefore is an excellent chance
to meet
experts from relevant fields. Participation
to the ÆGIS workshop is free of charge.
However, due to space limitation, participation will be on a first-come
first-served basis. We would appreciate it if you could return the enclosed registration form before Thursday,
30 April 2009. For
further information about the ÆGIS project, please visit the ÆGIS website at www.aegis-project.eu. http://www.aegis-project.eu/user_forum.html We
are looking forward to welcome you on the 5th of June! Yours
sincerely, Dr.
Evangelos Bekiaris Peter
Korn ÆGIS Coordinator ÆGIS
Technical Manager
Technical Advisor 01865 759813 077121 68901 Why not visit our website: www.ace-centre.org.uk
Please visit our
website: www.ace-centre.org.uk
From: Ah, right – thanks
David – I’ll have a go again _______________________________________________ Paul D. Nisbet Senior Research Fellow Communication, Access,
Literacy and Learning (CALL) Tel. 0131 651
6236 Fax 0131 651 6234 email Paul.Nisbet@... CALL SQA Digital Exam Papers: http://www.AdaptedDigitalExams.org.uk
The Scottish Computer
Voice: http://www.theScottishVoice.org.uk Books for
All: http://www.booksforall.org.uk Books for All blog: http://pauln.edublogs.org/ WordTalk reader for Word:
http://www.wordtalk.org.uk The _________________________________________________ From: Slight commercial interest Just as a point of information Hotspots is
not restricted to one window. Spots can be set anywhere on the screen
covering more than one window. What does only react to single windows is
the automatic loading of new spot sets when new windows are opened – but
you don’t need to use that. For switch users you can access hotspots
by putting hotkey controls on each spot and activating them from an on-screen
scanning keyboard. David
Technical Advisor 01865 759813 077121 68901 Why not visit our website: www.ace-centre.org.uk
Please visit our
website: www.ace-centre.org.uk
From: Looking for advice here: A teacher asked me if it would be possible to set up
a web cam for a pupil with high spinal injury who is reclined and has very
limited head control, so that he could see more around him. He has a laptop and
is an expert chin joystick (mini point it) user. I wasn’t entirely
convinced about the whole idea but I got a Logitech Sphere AF camera (£60 from
CPC) which has pan and tilt motors and installed it on the laptop. I’m
still not sure if it helps him see around, but it was fantastic fun because he
could use the joystick to operate the controls on screen to swivel the camera,
zoom in, take photos and videos, open and edit them in Picasa etc.
Opportunities for fun and education are immense. You need to have a mouse or pointing device though,
and I was thinking it would be nice if switch users could use the camera as
well. You can control the pan and tilt with arrow keys (=> switches), but there’s
no keyboard control of the buttons for taking photos and the motor control is a
separate window, and I think HotSpots can only do one window. I think it could be done by creating macros and then
assigning macro playback keystrokes to switches, so has anyone got suggestions
for a good free/cheap macro program for Windows XP? There seems to be a zillion
available Paul _______________________________________________ Paul D. Nisbet Senior Research Fellow Communication, Access, Literacy and
Learning (CALL) Tel. 0131 651 6236 Fax 0131
651 6234 email Paul.Nisbet@... CALL SQA Digital Exam Papers: http://www.AdaptedDigitalExams.org.uk
The Scottish Computer Voice: http://www.theScottishVoice.org.uk Books for All: http://www.booksforall.org.uk Books for All blog: http://pauln.edublogs.org/ WordTalk reader for Word: http://www.wordtalk.org.uk The _________________________________________________ |
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