Left to Write: Adaptive Keyboards & Writing Technologies for One-Handed Users
Left to Write: Adaptive Keyboards & Writing Technologies for One-Handed Users
Last year, an accident left my right arm and shoulder numb and paralyzed. After extensive testing, doctors determined that I had severely injured my right brachial plexus — a crucial nexus of nerve pathways carrying signals back and forth between my spinal column and right upper extremities. It was ...
posting this here as anybody who is slightly interested in different keyboards would enjoy this read and the 99% episode about it
Left to Write is a three-article set about adaptive writing technologies for one-handed users. This first piece explores accessible keyboards; the next details the process of developing a new keymap for comfortably touch-typing with one hand on a conventional two-handed board; the third explains how to convert your own QWERTY into a single-handed KURTY.
That mirrored mode is interesting and made sense to me even before I read the explanation. I'd assumed it only makes sense for using the left hand and that using just the right would need a different version of the keyboard, but there doesn't seem to be a flipped version.