DDZ@PSUVM.PSU.EDU (Carolyn Dudas) (11/28/90)
Index Number: 11978
The following article appeared in PC Week (October 29, 1990, p.48):
[Reprinted from PC Week, October 29, 1990 with permission
Copyright (c) 1990 Ziff Communications Company]
"MICROSOFT EASES WINDOWS ACCESS FOR DISABLED
In an effort to give users with physical disabilities fuller access to
computers, Microsoft Corp. recently released a device driver that makes
Windows programs easier for these users to control.
The driver, developed by Trace Research and Development Center at the
University of Wisconsin in Madison, is designed to help users with impaired
manual dexterity. It creates 'sticky' Alt, Ctrl and Shift keys that do not
have to be held down, desensitizes the keyboard and lets the number keypad
function as a mouse.
To make it easier to employ people with disabilities, Microsoft recommends
installing the driver on all shared PCs. 'Install these on any machine, and
a user without disabilities can use it without realizing anything is
different,' said Greg Lowney, program manager for Windows at Microsoft in
Redmond, Wash. 'Then, if a user with a disability comes up to the machine,
they can activate special support by themselves.'
The driver is part of the Windows Supplemental Driver Library, available
free on bulletin boards or for $20 by calling Microsoft at (800) 426-9400."wtm@bunker.uucp (Bill McGarry) (11/28/90)
Index Number: 11979 In the press release in the previous article, there's mention made of the drivers available on "bulletin boards". In talking to Microsoft, the bulletin boards are the pay systems such as Compuserve so downloading the six disks of drivers would be very expensive. If you have ftp and have access to the internet, these drivers are (or will be shortly) available on cica.cica.indiana.edu in the pub/pc/win3/sdl directory. I will try to get just the drivers that were described in PC Week and make it available on my BBS. Bill