Questions tagged [accessibility]
Usability of Unix & Linux by people with disabilities and by elderly users.
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How do I increase the height of the LXQt panel?
I'm using LXQt (with "muffin") on Devuan GNU/Linux Excalibur.
I want to increase the height of my panel. Not make it 2-row - increase the height of the single row, so that the icons are ...
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How do I stop Orca from initiating on startup? [Mate Desktop]
I appreciate using Orca sometimes but rarely require its usage. However, everytime I reboot and utilize an audio device I must run the following command to turn off Orca:
killall orca
How can I ...
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How can I make a double-click act as the Enter key in Linux terminal and browser URL bars?
I want to use a double-click (or a specific mouse button for double-click) to act like the Enter key in both the Linux terminal (e.g., KDE Terminal) and browser URL bars (Firefox/Chrome) or anywhere ...
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TTY for deaf application/emulator in LInux
TTY devices are assistive devices for deaf and HOH (hard of hearing) people. Today these devices are obsolete because they are replaced with sms via cellphone and emails. However, government are ...
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How to make `Shift` sticky. So when I press `Shift` it shifts the first next letter or shifts the first next symbol (`'` -> `"`) NixOS
My use case for this is typeracer and general typing.
I tried NixOS Gnome sticky keys
and the first I click it before writing the quote first 2 letters get
capitalized and then it works normally, but ...
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what keeps turning off stickykeys and how do I stop it?
I have xkbset st -twokeys in ~/.xsession file. My process list is (mine, not system):
winbindd: domain child
/lib/systemd/systemd --user
(sd-pam)
/usr/bin/pipewire
/usr/bin/wireplumber
/usr/bin/...
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How can I unify my stereo audio output to make it mono?
I use stereo speakers or headphones, and for "accessibility-related" reasons, I need to have the same audio play from both sides. Now, I don't need this for some specific audio file - which ...
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Can I permanently remap one colour to another in my bash_profile?
I've got a red-deficient variant of colourblindness. Red text is very difficult for me to read because it's much darker to me than for people with regular colour vision, so when it's on a black ...
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gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface toolkit-accessibility true fails
My docker script executes the following two commands
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface toolkit-accessibility true
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface toolkit-accessibility
The first ...
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How to permanently disable sticky keys in XFCE?
In my current (Fedora 37) XFCE setup, I have sticky keys and all other accessibility features disabled.
However Stickey keys are still on, and my Alt-Gr key randomly becomes stuck when I need to enter ...
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Lynx browser access and braille
Hello fellow Stack Exchange users can you please help? Does anyone know if there is an ability to adapt webpages for the braille alphabet within the Lynx browser?
This seems like the perfect web ...
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How to enable mouse keys on wayland (sway)
I'm currently on Arch Linux and wanted to know how I could enable mouse keys in wayland (mouse keys as in controlling the mouse with keyboard, the numpad). The arch wiki has mentioned mouse keys under ...
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Bind mouse click on key including mouseclick hold function
For health reasons, i mapped the mouse buttons on keys on keypad. This helps me, but I have solved the bindings via xdotool in KDE Custom shortcuts. With e.g. xdotool click 1 you can simulate simple ...
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Display a message in color by a conventional color name such as Red, Green, Blue, etc
WSL with Ubuntu 18.04 and GNU bash, version 4.4.20(1)-release (x86_64-pc).
I wish to display a message with a conventionally named color via argument such as -red, or -green, or -blue or anything like ...
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Is there an example for a shell or computing accessibility culture aspiring a shell with more special characters and if so what is it? [closed]
I was always a bit frustrated from the lack of characters in modern computer systems such as, from what I know:
A global template literal character for which the closest character today is a backtick ...
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