[IxDA Discuss] Clickless Web Interface?

[Alexander Baxevanis]

Actually, a clickless interface interface may offer certain benefits
for people with disabilities: I can imagine this working pretty
seamlessly with "eye-gaze control" systems that are already used for
people who have no control of their upper limbs and thus cannot use a
mouse or keyboard.

A quick search in Google for "eye-gaze control" brings up a lot of
interesting links, among them this paper:

http://www.it-c.dk/research/EyeGazeInteraction/Papers/Interact%202003-submit_final.pdf

It describes a typing interface based on eye gaze that generates
"mouse clicks" when your eyes are persistently focusing on one point.

Cheers,
Alex

On 9/17/07, W Evans <wkevans4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't even address the accessibility aspect of this GUI. Imagine you have
> limited or no access to a mouse and use voice controls or some other input
> device. My biggest problem with many flash interfaces is that the gui
> designer/developer tends to either ignore, or never have time to think about
> accessibility, section 508, and alternative input methods. This interface
> was pretty and interesting but responded to no accelerators or short-cut
> keys that I could find, and was not navigable without a mouse - and
> certainly unusable by a person with impaired sight.