Used to display textual user input from keyboard.
Adam74
Something that struck me reading about the history of the Apple I computer was the fairly simple “ASCII bus” that it used for input and output. As I understand it a hobbyist back in the day could get an ASCII keyboard that quite literally presented as an interface a header giving 7-bits of ASCII and an additional strobe pin that indicated that a key had been pressed. Press the “A” key on the keyboard and the 7-bits representing the letter “A” in ASCII would be set high/low on 7 output pins and the strobe pin would momentarily go high. Needless to say, the Apple I was wired up in such a way that when the strobe pin pulsed it would immediately fetch the 7-bits of ASCII from the keyboard.
Keyviz
Keyviz is a free and open-source tool to visualize your keystrokes and mouse actions.
A History of Accessibility at IBM
If you are reading this article, there is a good chance that you are using a screen reader, a term that is as generic to assistive technology as Kleenex is to facial tissues or Jell-o is to gelatin desserts. What you may not know, however, is that Screen Reader was once a proprietary product of IBM, rather than the generic term for the way people who are blind or have low vision gain access to computer screens. In fact, our terminals became "talkies" just 20 years ago, in 1984, largely because of the work of Jim Thatcher, then a mathematician for IBM, the world's largest technology company. This auspicious anniversary is an appropriate time to look back on the pioneering efforts of IBM and what it plans for the future.
Purpose of the "Windows" lock key
unicode-keyboard-layout-phoenician
The Phoenician Unicode Keyboard Layout or PHNX-UKL is the first Unicode-compliant keyboard layout for the Phoenician Unicode block.<br/>
Kando
Kando is an open source cross-platform pie menu. You can use it to launch applications, execute keyboard macros, open files, and much more!
Shift Happens: A book about keyboards
Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.
Keychron Q16 HE 8K Magnetic Switch Keyboard
The Keychron Q16 HE 8K is a wired magnetic switch custom gaming keyboard. Featuring advanced elements such as an 8K Polling rate and 256KHz single-key scanning rate, Keychron Ultra-fast Lime Magnetic Switch, a premium ceramic design with keyboard case and keycaps, advanced acoustic foam, the Q16 HE 8K enhances your gaming experience and elevates your performance.
Nyxt browser: The hacker's browser
Never leave the keyboard. Quickly analyze, navigate, and extract information from the Internet.
Twiddler 4 - By Tek Gear
A one-handed keyboard and mouse that lets you type faster wherever you go.
How an accessibility designer adds keyboard shortcuts to a web app
Keyboard shortcuts occupy a strange area for web design.
Satisficing and the Use of Keyboard Shortcuts: Being Good Enough Is Enough?
Keyboard shortcuts are generally accepted as the most efficient method for issuing commands, but previous research has suggested that many people do not use them. In this study we investigate the use of keyboard shortcuts further and explore reasons why they are underutilized by users. In Experiment 1, we establish two baseline findings: (1) people infrequently use keyboard shortcuts and (2) lack of knowledge of keyboard shortcuts cannot fully account for the low frequency of use. In Experiments 2 and 3, we furthermore establish that (3) even when put under time pressure users often fail to select those methods they themselves believe to be fastest and (4) the frequency of use of keyboard shortcuts can be increased by a tool that assists users learning keyboard shortcuts. We discuss how the theoretical notion of ‘satisficing’, adopted from economic and cognitive theory, can explain our results.
storekey - Rust
Binary serialization library for Rust values which preserves lexicographic sort order. Order-preserving encoding is useful for creating keys for sorted key-value stores with byte string typed keys, such as leveldb and sled.
Pad++: A Zooming User Interface (1998)