Hi all,
Attached is a picture of me using my iPad pro and Integramouse+ set up at home. The Integramouse is a mouth controlled mini joystick that you move with your lips, you also ‘sip’ and ‘puff’ into it for left click and right click. The mouse connects by USB to the iPad and you will need an adapter to allow the use of the USB and still have your power cable connected. It was supplied to me by my NHS Electronic Assistive Technologies team when I was no longer able to use a normal keyboard and mouse. As I still have speech and facial movement I am able to use this device and have been doing so for two years now. Whilst it will never be as quick as your finger or your wrist it nevertheless is very intuitive and allows me to still utilise the full functionality of my iPad.
Through the accessibility and assistive touch functions on the iPad I am able to select two-finger gestures so that I can still pinch and zoom, this can be a bit of a faff having to select a new cursor but by using the touch menu on the screen it isn’t too time consuming. For typing you can use the mouse to tap away on your on-screen keyboard but I prefer to use speech to text (which takes some getting used to but it’s great once you have mastered it).
As I can no longer hold my iPad you will see that I have purchased a fixed iPad holder and also a second holder with a camera mount for the Integramouse. It took a bit of playing to get the distances right so that I was comfortable but now I just drive up to my mouthpiece and away I go.
I no longer use a PC as I prefer my iPad but you can use the Integramouse with Windows machines or Macs. For those interested I am using a 12.9 inch iPad Pro which is the largest screen they do, I just find this size much easier in this type of set up than the smaller screens. Mine was a refurbished one that I bought from Amazon.
I hope you find my post useful 😊😊😊
James x
Attached is a picture of me using my iPad pro and Integramouse+ set up at home. The Integramouse is a mouth controlled mini joystick that you move with your lips, you also ‘sip’ and ‘puff’ into it for left click and right click. The mouse connects by USB to the iPad and you will need an adapter to allow the use of the USB and still have your power cable connected. It was supplied to me by my NHS Electronic Assistive Technologies team when I was no longer able to use a normal keyboard and mouse. As I still have speech and facial movement I am able to use this device and have been doing so for two years now. Whilst it will never be as quick as your finger or your wrist it nevertheless is very intuitive and allows me to still utilise the full functionality of my iPad.
Through the accessibility and assistive touch functions on the iPad I am able to select two-finger gestures so that I can still pinch and zoom, this can be a bit of a faff having to select a new cursor but by using the touch menu on the screen it isn’t too time consuming. For typing you can use the mouse to tap away on your on-screen keyboard but I prefer to use speech to text (which takes some getting used to but it’s great once you have mastered it).
As I can no longer hold my iPad you will see that I have purchased a fixed iPad holder and also a second holder with a camera mount for the Integramouse. It took a bit of playing to get the distances right so that I was comfortable but now I just drive up to my mouthpiece and away I go.
I no longer use a PC as I prefer my iPad but you can use the Integramouse with Windows machines or Macs. For those interested I am using a 12.9 inch iPad Pro which is the largest screen they do, I just find this size much easier in this type of set up than the smaller screens. Mine was a refurbished one that I bought from Amazon.
I hope you find my post useful 😊😊😊
James x
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