Overview
The Head Pointer and Mouth Stick Keyboard has been designed to aid users who operate a PC using a head pointing or mouth stick mechanism. The on-screen keyboard will aid operation when using Oska with a head pointing or mouth stick mechanism by reducing the amount of movement needed to input commands into the keyboard. The Head Pointer and Mouth Stick Keyboard will assist users to access their PC with a greater degree of control and efficiency.
Features
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Advantages Of Head Pointer And Mouth Stick Keyboard
The Head Pointer and Mouth Stick Keyboard has been designed for ease of use. By arranging the keys around the space bar, the amount of movement needed to select a key is reduced. By reducing the amount of movement required, the amount of stress caused by movement will be reduced.
The unique design of the Head Pointer and Mouth Stick Keyboard means that keys can be accessed with less movement. With practice, users should be able to use their PC faster and with more efficiency.
How Does Head Pointer And Mouth Stick Keyboard Work
The on-screen keyboard is always visible, hovering over the other applications so it can always be used.
Character keys are displayed in white with the number keys shown as grey. The keyboard works as you would expect, so hitting the ‘’a’’ key on the on-screen keyboard makes ‘’a’’ appear on the screen just as if you had pressed the ‘’a’’ key on a standard keyboard. The keys are arranged around the space bar, which is shown as a blank key near the middle of the keyboard. This is so that all the keys are easy to get to with the minimum of movement.
Function keys work just as normal.
The CAPS key turns on or off caps lock.
To use the modifier keys – SHIFT, CTRL, ALT and the right hand SHIFT – in conjunction with a key, hit the modifier and then the key that you want to use. For example, to do Control + C to copy, hit CTRL, check it has changed colour to show that it is depressed, then hit the C key.
The left SHIFT and CAPS keys both change the appearance of the keyboard. This lets you see what different key you will get when you use SHIFT or CAPS and hit a key. The other modifiers do not change the keyboard’s appearance but still operate as you would expect.
Below is the complete list of special function keys:
Specification
System Requirements
- Windows Vista, XP, Windows 7
- 400 MHz Pentium processor or equivalent (Minimum)
1GHz Pentium processor or equivalent (Recommended) - 256MB MB RAM (Minimum)
1GB (Recommended) - 50MB Hard Disk Space Maximum Required
- 800 x 600 256 colours display (Minimum)
1024 x 768 High Colour 32-bit display (Recommended) - Microsoft .Net 3.5
- Microsoft DirectX 9
