Skipper

Skipper - Full GUI accessibility for severely movement impaired people

Skipper has two parts. One runs outside the X Window System, takes control of all input devices, and provides highly user configurable processing of the inputs to convert whatever movements the person can make into one or two dimensional movements and clicks.

The other part runs inside X, and provides highly user configurable on-screen menus of useful actions. The two parts communicate, to provide an environment where the usual GUI effectively runs inside another computer, which is specialised to the user's available movements. This provides full access to all legacy applications for people with as little as one detectable voluntary movement. Very detailed documentation for SuSE 7.1 and can run on a 100MHz PC.

Obtaining

Web page http://home.freeuk.net/skipperproject/
Source tarball http://home.freeuk.net/skipperproject/skipper-src-1.5.1.tgz
Version 1.5.1 (stable) released on 2002-03-22

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User guide available in HTML format from http://home.freeuk.net/skipperproject/index.html#contents

Support contacts

Help List	<skipperproject@yahoogroups.com> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skipperproject
Developer List	<skipperproject@yahoogroups.com> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skipperproject
Bug List	<skipperproject@yahoogroups.com> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skipperproject

Project contacts

Maintainers	Alan Carter <skipperproject@freeuk.com>
Developers	Alan Carter <skipperproject@freeuk.com>

Related information

Interfaces	console, X Window System
Programs	skipvxd, skipfurn, skipstat, skipconf
Source languages	C++
Use requirements	fltk, mesa, flex
Related programs	Festival

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-10-16
Entry compiled by	Alan Carter <skipperproject@freeuk.com>

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