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Skipper Accessibility Suite 1.6.0 Released

Posted by simoniker on from the positive-steps dept.

Semi-Anonymous Reader writes "Skipper 1.6.0 is a GPLed Linux accessibility suite for the severely physically disabled - cerebral palsy, road traffic accidents, motor neuron disease, Parkinsons etc. It takes input from multiple devices like graphics tablets and microswitches connected directly to the printer port, does input switching and processing (configured graphically like modular synthesisers), and provides clever genetically annealed menu systems for application and desktop control. With just one detectable click, people can have full Web and email access - in fact the whole Linux desktop - in complete privacy. Now the problem's getting it to people who need it. Charities and institutions think physical, Windows and money, so it's down to the geeks. Set up a kid near you this Fall - they might not be the next Einstein or Mozart, but you'll be giving them a lifetime of education, activity, self-expression and self-determination."

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  1. Get 'em hooked early by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Set up a kid near you this Fall - they might not be the next Einstein or Mozart, but you'll be giving them a lifetime of education, activity, self-expression and self-determination."

    More like a lifetime of Slashdot and Everquest addiction.

    Oh, and fp.

  2. linux based? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    great, as if the handicapped didn't have enough trouble already - now they have to worry about configuring their kernel and dicking around with XFree86Config!

  3. Setup a... kid? by lingqi · · Score: 3, Funny
    Set up a kid near you this Fall...

    So that's what y'all are calling it now? doesn't that require women (preferabbly one married to you) first?

    I mean, not so familiar with these things, /. regular and all...

    [ducks]

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    My life in the land of the rising sun.

    1. Re:Setup a... kid? by SharpFang · · Score: 3, Funny

      He says "set up", not "install". It's misconfigured!

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  4. what makes humans precious? by Porthwhanker · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the Information Age we can see more clearly than ever before that what makes human beings precious is creativity, intelligence, wit and determination.

    And here I thought it was how much money you make. Guess I'm still stuck in the Capitalism Age.

  5. Genetically annealed? by JessLeah · · Score: 4, Funny

    What does "genetically annealed" mean? All I can guess is, umm, my Dad's name is Neal, so I guess I'm "genetically anNealed"?

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  6. I'm afraid it means... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    that your dad is, in fact Cowboy Neal!

    He has spawned.

  7. MSCock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I understand how disabled people input data by using whatever part of their body they can control.

    But the box labled "MsCock" in the diagram on the Skipper front page disturbs me...