Can you prevent IE opening up secondary windows?

[Paddy]

hey... i have heard of tongue activated mice...... any takers?

[az]

if he can use voice recognition for keyboard input more or less painlessly, seriously consider Opera, as it allows you to navigate through a site's links with the keyboard (and not only next-previous link, but spacial, so you can get the link below another, even if it's not the next one).

If you have opera7 installed: make sure a page has focus (not the text field), hit "A" repeatedly. It'll go through the links one after another. OR use shift+cursor keys (this can be remapped, like all keys in Opera) to spatially navigate through links. enter to click a link, shift+enter to open in new window, ctrl+shift+enter to open in new window in background.

how about a touchpad (a bigger one, with stylus), so he can take the stylus into his mouth, as a pointing device?

AZ

[Paddy]

erm... i think the touch pad idea wont work. I mean, how long could you hold a stylus in your mouth???? I have seen joystick like devices that will fit inside your mouth.... I wonder how much they cost..

[az]

maybe one could modify the toughpad stylus so that it kinda works like those wheelchair mouth steering thingys.. just an idea though.

Say, does health insurance really pay nothing for adequate computer equipment for him? I mean, for him with his limited mobility, a computer is more needed than for us, IMHO.

AZ

[Paddy]

viva la NHS

[az]

There's the HeadMouse too, but it costs way over 2000 EUR!

AZ

[az]

There are competing products, which can be had for ~1000 EUR.

Or a headpointer, for a touchpad/touchscreen. Or a mouthstick. Or a mouth operated joystick mouse.

These are all good keywords to google for, also sip and puff.

AZ

[Paddy]

Chees Az.

[Fat Tone]

It's a shame eye-trackers still cost so damn much - ~40k USD

[az]

I've read you can get them for ~10k, which is still not sensible, of course. But head-tracking might do, and is a lot cheaper (if not actually cheap.. people really make big bucks on anything medical, or for special needs - a joystick mouse for over a thousand dollars.. gimme a break!).

actually, it might be possible for a skilled electronics person to build a joystick mouse, or you might just buy one. The mounting doesn't have to be special, and any able-bodied person could do that. This could be A LOT cheaper. only the sip-puff switch might not be easy.

AZ

[Nowhere]

Outpost firewall has plugin/function that blocks popups.

edit: I'm only not sure now if it blocks all of them or only more than one.