Left Handed Support for PDA's?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday July 8, 2001 @06:45AM from the software-oversights dept.

Skuld-Chan asks: "I'm left handed - so is about 10%-15% of America (depending on what statistic you look at). Is there a PDA out there that has left handed support? I have a Compaq Ipaq and the problem is I have to reach over the screen to grab scroll bars - thus obstructing what I am viewing. My brother has a Palm 7 and he says it doesn't have left handed support either. I think it would be easy to impliment - just reverse all the scroll bars and I'd be happy (the menu items happen to be on the left - just the right place)." You would thing things like this would come out in the usability tests. For those of you lefty's out there who work with PDAs on a semi-daily basis, what do you do to work around this problem?

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LeftHack for Palm by matthewg · 2001-07-08 03:00 · Score: 3

There is a hack for the Palm that moves the scrollbars to the left. Get it here.
"I am left-handed" preference by gwyrdd+benyw · 2001-07-08 05:44 · Score: 3

"Lefty" is a hack for the PalmOS that sets a flag saying "I prefer left-handed GUI elements". Lefty-savvy applications will see this flag and adjust their screen rendering accordingly.

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