Madison project, a JAVA OS for the severely disabled.
Madison is an on going effort to provide high quality access to modern
and effective computer technology for individuals who are blind and have a
severe limit on mobility or control as to limit the use of standard input
technologies.
Madison is a user mode operating system based on the JAVA platform. It
uses input on a joystick and 3 switches.
The joystick can be thought of as a navigation aid like the cursor keys
up, down, left, and right. An expanded Morse (eMorse) code is used to
replace the keyboard, the 3 buttons represent dot, dash, and meta.
Ex:
- [meta] = shift
- [meta, meta] = command, like in Emacs
- [meta, meta, meta] = shift lock
- [meta, meta, meta, meta] = jump, like ctrl-alt-f1, alt-tab, but uses
named targets
Applications are installed on graph file system. Each file system node has
up to 4 vertices, named north, south, east, and west. Navigation is done
via joystick or eMorse input. Applications should be deployed as jar files
which would be retrieved by the web, or local disk.
Ideal system deployment would be as a USB volume and attached peripherals
via an embedded USB hub.
bugzilla
[ALL BUGS]
[NEW BUG]
release tracker
Freshmeat Page
Our current todo list:
- Improve the morse code processing ofinput
- Write a filesystem navigator for the OS
- Write a text editor for the OS
- Write an email client
- Write a web browser
- Write a compiler
- Integerate with cell phone OS
- Integerate with PC OS
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