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weeb

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kirsty.mcnaught@gmail.com

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    Ah yes, this task fails hard at the xkcd.com/627/ tactic of "Find a menu item or button that looks related to what you want to do..." What do I want to do? "turn off my computer" W…

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    Comment #46793149

    Interesting how different people's brains work. I personally cannot mentally parse a month-based calendar - the distribution of weeks and weekends is far too variable. I print one …

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    Comment #46147669

    Calendarpedia offers loads of options which are great for printing. I always print an A3 "rolling" format for the current year, which I haven't seen anywhere else - lets you see al…

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    Comment #45882304

    You can do "see only current branch" with the little filter icon when you hover next to a branch. Although I do find myself getting lost amongst branches more easily compared to So…

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    Comment #45516386

    There are commonly used terms for different types of empathy[1] which makes these conversations a lot easier. People often generalise, or misinterpret a lower level of one type of …

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    Comment #45116742

    does anyone know of recent TTS options that let you specify IPA rather than written words? Azure lets you do this, but something local (and better than existing OS voices) would be…

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    Comment #44255339

    Nice to see people getting interested in eye gaze. There are two things that you might like to look at that can help the UX. 1 - Calibration. Looking at static dots is BORING. The …

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    Comment #44056363

    Thanks, that's it. I really like 'gradually walk the UI tree', though I'm struggling a bit with the thing I want being obscured by the label (and me not remembering what was there)…

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    Comment #44051128

    Yes! transforming the top level frame sounds like the way to go. I ran jwno with example-config and pressed RAlt and RAlt+K a few times, each time trying one of the onscreen shortc…

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    Comment #44049795

    This looks to have great potential for accessibility! I work with individuals who use eye gaze input, where a significant part of the screen is taken up by an on-screen keyboard (i…

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    Comment #43581548

    I maintain an open-source interface that lets kids with physical disabilities play Minecraft using eye control[1]. When I started working on it, I was already familiar with what Mi…

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    Comment #37912441

    Do you have any recommendations for getting over the friction of starting? Like, suggestions of what to write about if you're unsure what's worth putting to paper. I'm sure I'd hav…

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    Comment #35871698

    Agree on this. Also a bug report - I was getting bored of a story level and tried to find a shortcut to skip it or speed it up or something. Pressed a key (not sure which - was thi…

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    Comment #30166321

    You might also want to look at other apps that use the OpenBoardFormat: https://www.openboardformat.org/partners I contribute to Optikey and was involved in OpenVoiceFactory in its…

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    Comment #24851793

    Not the OP, but Dasher is a classic example that works very well for a single 2D input like using a joystick: https://youtu.be/0d6yIquOKQ0

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    Comment #24848050

    Windows 10's Eye Control has something like this, called "Shape Writing". See the second GIF here: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/2/16087368/microsoft-eye-con... Long before that,…

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    Comment #23152369

    This is really interesting and fun! One bit of UX feedback - I played about with children, cross breeding and editing genes and never figured out a mental model for what interactio…

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    Comment #20059420

    Whatever you use, please remember not everyone has good vision / hearing / dextrous mouse control. Captchas can be a nightmare for accessibility. Most of the 'clever' solutions to …