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Useful Resources
- Mozilla Developer Network Accessibility Reference
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When my nerves started acting up because my job forces me to use the same key combination a lot I built myself a 'mouse board'. I slaughtered a cheap computer mouse, transferred the buttons to a footrest made of plywood, reassigned some keys with X-mouse and could now survive hours of doing mouse clicks and 'Ctrl + C' by doing them with my feet!
While the commercial model has stupidly heavy foot pedals my version works on a toe tap. It's almost like dancing.
For me it's always my left arm's fingers that get tired first, especially the pinky and the ones close to it.
I have now resorted to using the right shift and rebinded my right alt to act as the control key on top of using it as a special modifier key for certain actions.
While holding Right-Alt:
There's also one more key near the Right-Alt that I don't know what it's called, but I rebinded it to be Ctrl + Shift. All of my terminals navigation commands are Ctrl + Shift.
In neovim I even binded Space +w to click Ctrl +w cuz Right-Alt + w is word jump. And I use window navigation really often.
I also have caps-lock binded to esc but don't use it that much. 3 ways to press esc for me (4 in neovim cuz I have jj = esc). ๐
This has helped me tremendously.
That is so cool.
If you could share an image it would be awesome
Made a post about it, because it has been such a good gadget for me. Sorry the rotten photos, cellphone camera is kicking the bucket
Haha that is so sick. Thanks.