Skipper accessibility software

Saint write, “Modern graphical user interfaces (GUIs) have made computers accessible to millions of people, but they have had the unfortunate side effect of preventing some people from using computers at all. A slight hand tremor can be enough to stop someone positioning a mouse with accuracy and then making a click, while a person with one useable hand can find reaching across a keyboard a tiring and offputting chore — and that’s before they have to hold down the shift or control keys. For people with very limited movement, the modern GUI is an impossible barrier. Skipper (screenshot here) is a new open source accessibility package which makes the best use of whatever people with severe movement impairment can move. It removes the barrier to GUI use for the disabled. Complete story at LinuxMedNews.com.”