KeyStrokes™ - Onscreen Keyboard for Mac OS

Product Information

KeyStrokes is a soft keyboard that generates an image of a keyboard on the Macintosh display for those who cannot enter text using a hard keyboard. A mouse or a mouse emulator is used to select and enter characters by pointing and clicking on the keys. Operations that require simultaneous actuation of more than one key are performed using the special sticky key feature of KeyStrokes. This allows command key and other modifier key-click combinations to be performed. Characters are sent to any application running natively on OS 9, OS 10 and into any application running in Classic Mode. KeyStrokes can be used to access all areas of the Operating System except for logging in and entering secure screen saver passwords.

Six resizable keyboard layouts are included. The layouts differ by whether they include a number pad, function keys, navigation keys and ordering of the keys in qwerty or alphabetical order. With the latest release a number pad keyboard has been added. The simple keyboard layouts are suited for children or people with limited cognitive ability. Key separation and other aspects of key and keyboard background appearance can be modified. The keyboards can be resized by selecting several preset sizes or they can be drag sized like any window. All international keyboards supported by the operating system are supported by KeyStrokes.

KeyStrokes provides advanced multilingual word prediction. The PolyPredix™ word prediction engine does word completion, next word prediction and multi-word prediction in languages that use the Roman and non-Roman character sets such as Cyrillic. The PolyPredix™ prediction engine offers many time and effort saving features that enhance user productivity. There is the capability to display one line of text as it is being entered in the PolyPredix area (Typing Field) of the KeyStrokes keyboard. This feature can minimize eye strain by reducing the requirement to redirect one's gaze from the application to the keyboard and back.

KeyStrokes provides audio feedback to the user and in addition, it can speak the characters entered in English. The capability to speak is only available while running under Mac OSX.

Smart Transparency (available only on Mac OSX) can be used to automatically "hide" the keyboard when it is not being used. If the mouse is moved outside of the keyboard window it can be configured to fade from fully opaque to any level of transparency. This will provide visual access to items under the keyboard window when text entry is not underway. The final level of transparency, time to fade and fade rate are all configured using KeyStrokes preferences.

Features/Specifications:

• Text Entry into All Mac OS 9, OS 10 and Classic Mode Applications
• Integrated Dwellix™ Utility for Entering Mouse Button "Clicks" Using Dwell Selection
• Integrated PolyPredix™, an advanced word prediction engine that can do word completion, next word prediction and multi-word prediction in languages that use the Roman and non-Roman character sets, such as Cyrillic and Eastern European languages
• Learns words as they are typed or by importing text files
• Learned text can be spell-checked (on OSX) to prevent misspelled words
• Included Dictionaries for US and UK English, French, German, Dutch, and Italian
• Includes a powerful dictionary editor to edit user dictionaries and design dictionaries for additional languages or dialects
• Provides visual and audio-feedback including speaking what is typed (the latter option is for English only)
• Has configurable auto-spacing and auto-capitalization features for a number of languages
• Provides shortcut expansion (also known as abbreviation expansion)
• Six resizable keyboard layouts
• Programmable key appearance, key spacing and font
• Generates command-Key combinations, dead-Keys, modifier key - click combinations, and auto key-repeat
• Smart Transparency™
• US and International keyboard layouts
• Minimize keyboard to an icon
• Invade full screen mode for accessing applications that normally take over the entire screen
• Powerful AppleScript support to allow developers and assistive technology specialists to build integrated solutions
• Improved Mac OS 10.3 (Panther) support
• Keystrokes 2.2 included for backward compatibility to System 7.1
• Simple Operating Mode for use with children and people with cognitive disabilities
• Stability compensation to facilitate dwell selection
• Excellent companion for HeadMouse® Extreme or other mouse emulator