Programs for Filling In Web Forms?

cafebabe asks: "My mother has severe arthritis and must do a lot of her shopping online since it is painful for her to walk. Since she also has trouble typing, she needs a program to help her fill out all of the data entry fields on web sites. When I was home over Thanksgiving, I saw that my mother had Gator on her computer. I uninstalled it, explained spyware to her, and installed RoboForm, which I had heard good things about. RoboForm ended up causing her computer to crash so my father uninstalled it. Is RoboForm really the best thing out there or do any of you know of something better?"

Comments

Mozilla has it

[DeadMeat (TM)]

Mozilla/Netscape 7 has form management features built-in, but most people don't know about it because it's stupidly buried under the Tools menu.

If the prospect of using a program called Mozilla terrifies her and you don't want all the extra crap that comes standard with Netscape, use SillyDog's steamlined Netscape. Then add the mother-friendly pop-up blocking feature back and she should be good to go.

Roll your own

[aminorex]

Just write a little .vbs script for each of her frequently
used forms and put an icon on the desktop for it.
Here'' You can download WSH 5.6 from
' - http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/vbscript/scrip ting56.asp
Option Explicit 'Set an automatic error for all undefined variables

Const promptTitle = "Enter Private Key Password"
Const ShowSigningStatus = True

Dim Wshshell, fso, oExec, shell, counter, tmp, signResult, exeError, objArgs
Dim strPassword: strPassword = ""

'Create an object array of the command line arguments
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments

if NOT Wshshell.AppActivate(promptTitle) Then
MsgBox "No such window, "+promptTitle
WScript.Quit
End If

Wshshell.AppActivate(promptTitle)
Wshshell.Send Keys(strPassword) ' Send the password to the Dialogbox
WScript.Sleep 200
Wshshell.SendKeys("{ENTER}") ' Send an enter key to the Dialogbox.

WScript.Quit

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