Input Assistive Keyboards for People with Disabilities: A Survey

Abstract

Any device, equipment or courseware that assists people to work around the limitations caused by their disabilities comes under the category of Assistive Technology. People with certain sort of disabilities using these Assistive Technologies can compensate a boundary caused due to their disability. Certain types of assistive technologies help people with disabilities to achieve their life goals and hence allowing them to be operative in specific fields. Several Assistive Technology devices have helped people with disabilities in acquiring their dream jobs and reducing the external support needed by them for earning a livelihood. In this paper, a survey of commercial and patented one handed input devices that are in practice in the society has been done.