Introductions

[jadelennox]

I don't have any particular plans for this community, except that I have been really craving a support network of other people who know what it's like. Do folks care to do introductions?


Hi, I am jadelennox. I've had severe RSI for 11 years, which has slowly gotten ever so slightly better. Unfortunately, I work with computers all day for work, and then all evening for fun. I use Dragon naturally speaking, although I am lucky enough that my jobs have always paid for it and have bought the professional version. I can type or mouse little bit, but not very much.

Comments

[birke]

Hi, I'm Birke. I've used DNS Preferred 10 for two years, also because of RSI. I write for a living and to socialize; sometimes I get impatient and grab the mouse or keyboard, but usually regret it.

[jeshyr]

I'm Ricky and I actually compute with my hands mostly but I also use MacSpeech Dictate and write a blog (http://atmac.org) for apple users with any disability so I like to keep up with cross-disability news.

[jordanwillow]

Hi, I'm jordanwillow. I write for a living and have thoracic outlet syndrome that sometimes flares up and makes dictation software a necessity for my professional writing, and also personal email and blogging. I switched to a Mac a couple of years ago, after MacSpeech Dictate became available. I can say without equivocation that Dragon is SO MUCH BETTER, but as I only use Dictate for dictating prose and always have at least some typing capability, I manage.

Thanks for starting this community!

[saffronhouse]

delighted to find out about this community!

I've been hemiplegic for five years now -- at the office I alternate amongst a half-qwerty keyboard that allows me to type (slowly) one-handed by touch, Dragonspeak and handwriting recognition on a wacom pad. I simply hunt-and-peck type on my mac at home. Oh! and use Dragonspeak on my iphone, which surprises the heck out of me with how good a program that is -- better recognition than the pro version at the office, and FREE!

The sad (or funny, actually) thing is: before the stroke my typing speed was around 90 wpm. Now that I don't Have a typing speed anymore -- my fanfiction output is ... actually about the same as it was before the stroke.

The lesson seems to be that it's not the muscles in your hand that make a slow writer. :)