---- General Help -----------------------------

General Help

AccessX is an extension to the X Window System for making keyboard and mouse

actions more accessible to users with disabilities.

The AccessX utility was co-developed by Digital Equipment Corporation,

Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc., and by The Trace Research Center

at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (funding provided by the

National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, US

Dept. of Education, Grants H133E80021 & H133E30012). Additional

support was received from the X Consortium and IBM. The X11R6

version of AccessX was incorporated into the XKB keyboard extension by

Silicon Graphics, Inc.

AccessX has the following windows: the main window, the Settings window,

Help windows, and two Status windows. Information concerning features on

the Status and Settings windows appears in the Help windows on individual

features.

The main window has the following features:

o Three pulldown menus, one for controlling the program and accessing

Files, one for bringing up Status windows, and one for

getting Help windows. Press F10 and either 'f', 's', or 'h' to

open these menus. Use arrow keys and Return to choose an item.

o A checkbox for turning AccessX on and off ('Enable AccessX').

Note that exiting the accessx utility does not disable it.

If you want to disable the utility, you must uncheck the 'Enable

AccessX' checkbox.

o A checkbox for specifying that you get a beep when a feature is turned

on or off.

o Checkboxes for turning individual features on and off.

o A checkbox and slider for setting a timeout. Set the timeout if you

want to have AccessX disable itself after an interval with no

keyboard or mouse activity. This is useful if the system is shared

with people without disabilities.

o A button for bringing up the Settings window.

The Settings window has checkboxes and sliders for affecting the behavior

of various AccessX features. These are discussed in the Help for each

feature. Additionally, the Settings window has the following four buttons:

o The Apply button saves your changes and leaves the window up.

o The Cancel button cancels all changes and dismisses the window.

o The Okay button saves your changes and dismisses the window.

o The Reset button resets the settings to their last saved values.

---- Sticky Keys Help -----------------------------

StickyKeys

Intended Users: People who can press only one key at a time

(e.g., those who type with one finger or with a

mouth stick).

What StickyKeys Does: With StickyKeys on, you can keep a modifier key

(Control, Alt, Shift, or Meta) active while you

press one or more other keys. This allows you

to type, for example, Control-D as two separate

keystrokes.

How It Works: With StickyKeys on, pressing a modifier key once

will make that key active until another key is

pressed. For example, if you press Shift, 'h',

and 'i', you get 'Hi'.

Pressing a modifier twice makes it active until

you press that same modifier again. For

example, if you press Shift, Shift, 'h', and

'i', you get 'HI'. Press Shift again to

deactivate it.

Turning It On/Off: Sticky Keys may be turned on and off in the

following ways:

o Check the StickyKeys checkbox in

the main window.

*The following are valid only if you've started

the X server with the -accessx option.*

o Press Shift five times in

succession.

o Press a modifier and any other key

simultaneously.

Note: You can also deactivate StickyKeys by pressing

two modifiers at once, if you've checked the

appropriate checkbox in the Settings window.

You can have your machine beep when a modifier

key is activated or deactivated. Check the

appropriate box in the Settings window.

There is a Status window for displaying which

modifier keys, if any, are active.

---- Mouse Keys Help -----------------------------

MouseKeys

Intended Users: People who need a keyboard based alternative to

the mouse.

What MouseKeys Does: Lets you use the numeric keypad to emulate mouse

activities (moving the pointer on the screen and

clicking mouse buttons).

How It Works: The keys on the numeric pad emulate the mouse as

follows:

o The 1 - 4 and 6 - 9 keys move the

pointer around the screen.

o 5 is a mouse click; 0 is a mouse

button press (and hold); + (plus)

is a double-click; Del is a mouse

button release.

o / (slash) activates the SELECT

mouse button; * (multiply)

activates ADJUST; - (minus)

activates MENU.

o Enter toggles between the x10 and

normal cursor speed.

The user may have to hold down the 'Alt Graph' key

while pressing the keypad keys.

Adjusting It: The Settings window allows you to adjust:

o The maximum speed of the pointer.

o The time it takes the pointer to reach

maximum speed.

o The motion delay time before the pointer

starts moving. Note: If the 'Motion delay'

scale is greyed out it is because the X

server only supports the old AccessX

extension which does not provide support for

the 'Motion delay' feature.

Turning It On/Off: You can turn MouseKeys on and off in the

following ways:

o Check the MouseKeys checkbox on

the main window.

o Press Alt-Shift-NumLock. (Valid

only if you have started

the X server with the -accessx

option.)

Note: You can bring up a MouseKeys Status window from

the Main window to display which mouse buttons,

if any, are pressed.

---- Toggle Keys Help -----------------------------

ToggleKeys

Intended Users: People with limited or no vision, who are unable

to use the LED lights on a keyboard to tell if

the Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock keys

are active.

What ToggleKeys Does: Beeps when one of these keys is activated or

deactivated.

Turning It On/Off: Check the ToggleKeys checkbox in the main

window.

---- Repeat Keys Help -----------------------------

RepeatKeys

Intended Users: People who have difficulty removing their finger

(or mouth stick) from a key quickly enough to

prevent it from repeating.

What RepeatKeys Does: With RepeatKeys on, a key must be held down for

a certain length of time before it will start to

repeat.

Adjusting It: You can adjust the behavior of RepeatKeys in two

ways, using the Settings window:

o You can set how long a key must be

held down initially before it

begins to repeat.

o You can set how long a key must be

held to continue repetition (i.e.,

how many times a key will repeat

per second).

Turning It On/Off: You can turn RepeatKeys on and off in the

following ways:

o Check the RepeatKeys checkbox in

the main window.

o Hold down the Shift key for 8

seconds. (Valid only if you have

started the X server with the

-accessx option.)

Note: Holding the Shift key down for 8 seconds also

turns on SlowKeys.

---- Slow Keys Help -----------------------------

SlowKeys

Intended Users: People who have trouble typing one key without

accidentally typing others. (For example,

someone who hits the 'r' key while typing 't'.)

What SlowKeys Does: With SlowKeys on, only keys that are pressed for

a minimum period of time will be accepted as

input.

Adjusting It: You can set (in the Settings window) the

notification style for SlowKeys. You can have

your machine beep when a) a key is initially

pressed, b) the key-press is accepted, c) both,

or d) neither.

You set the amount of time you want to pass

before keyboard input is accepted. For example,

if you set this to one second, then only a key

that is held down for one second or more will be

accepted.

Set this value in the Settings window.

Turning It On/Off: There are two ways to turn SlowKeys on and off:

o Check the SlowKeys checkbox in the

main window.

o Hold the Shift key down for 8

seconds. (Valid only if you've

started the X server with the

-accessx option.)

Note: SlowKeys and BounceKeys cannot be active at

the same time.

Holding down the Shift key for 8 seconds also

turns on RepeatKeys.

---- Bounce Keys Help -----------------------------

BounceKeys

Intended Users: People whose fingers `bounce` while attempting

to press a key.

What BounceKeys Does: With BounceKeys on, the system ignores rapid,

repeated pressings of a single key.

How It Works: You set the amount of time that must pass before

a second pressing of a key is accepted as input.

Any accidental `bouncing` on the key is ignored

during this interval.

Set this interval in the Settings window.

Turning It On/Off: Check the BounceKeys checkbox in the main window.

Note: BounceKeys and Slowkeys cannot be active at

the same time.