Helping a blind user, Simple single html page on his computer. |
Helping a blind user, Simple single html page on his computer. |
opto-mystic |
Jan 8 2017, 01:24 PM
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Hello all
I am helping an elderly gentleman who has lost 99% of his sight to retrieve and send emails by voice activation Platform: Windows 10 I have got Dragon Naturally Speaking voice to text working for him but he cannot see the icons even at max size and the icons are in different places every time he switches his machine on! All he wants to use is Word, Go to Gmail, and a couple of other items My proposed solution is to create a very simple HTML page that appears on his screen on start-up. The page to have 4 high contrasting colours and clicking in the table data will activate the appropriate programme The page consists of a table 1 row x 8 columns set to give 4 wide. The following code only has the link to Word on my machine but I dont know how to initiate the double click to open Word - If I can get that working the rest will be easy. Don't worry about the format of the page below it is only a test one.. Any help will be gratefully received CODE <!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Untitled Document</title> <style type="text/css"> body { margin-left: 25px; margin-top: 800px; margin-right: 25px; margin-bottom: 30px; } body,td,th { font-family: verdana; font-size: 24px; } </style> </head> <body style=""><table width="1025" border="3" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="200" height="285" bgcolor="#FD0004"><a href=""C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15\WINWORD.EXE"">Word</a></td> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="200" bgcolor="#0054FF">Internet Explorer GMAIL</td> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="200" bgcolor="#02FD00">Dragon</td> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="200" bgcolor="#820002">Firefox</td> <td width="90"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </body> </html> |
Darin McGrew |
Jan 8 2017, 06:20 PM
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WDG Member Group: Root Admin Posts: 8,365 Joined: 4-August 06 From: Mountain View, CA Member No.: 3 |
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pandy |
Jan 8 2017, 10:46 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,716 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
It can be done with HTA (HTML Applications)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application Basically a HTA is a local web page that runs as an application. It's a created as a normal HTML page with some special tags in it and saved as .hta. But you don't open it in a browser, you run it by clicking the icon. HTA allows a lot more scripting than a normal HTML page. Programs can be run from it with some flavour of Windows scripting. It's been more than 10 years since I looked into this and I didn't look very deep, so I can't be of much help. I've mainly used it to create small info windows that can be run from within my text editor with lists of useful stuff I want to keep handy. I did get as far as running other applications, but I've forgotten the detail so you'd have to read up and google yourself. But why not simply get something like this? Or maybe your friend already have something similar on his machine. http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/...ps-run-scripts/ |
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