Re:When Accessibility Gets Labeled Wasteful
by GFK_of_xmaspast on Thursday March 10, 2016 @03:25PM
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I dislocated my elbow and it was essentially held at a fixed 90 degree angle.
Re:When Accessibility Gets Labeled Wasteful
by Grishnakh on Thursday March 10, 2016 @05:56PM
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Hmm. I'm sitting and typing this right now, and looking at my elbow and it appears to be a 90-degree angle.
Also, there's different things you can do to your arm that require a sling. I didn't require a cast for my injury, but even if I did, the sling's purpose is mainly to keep your arm in a neutral position, keep you from bearing weight with it, and keep your upper arm from having to deal with the weight of the cast. It doesn't completely immobilize you; you can usually still rotate your arm enough to use a keyboard. Obviously, though, this depends on your exact injury and what's been done to your arm.
And being one-handed isn't that bad with a computer anyway. You can type one-handed (I do it on occasion for short bursts), and you can adopt one of the one-handed Dvorak keyboard layouts. It's obviously not as fast as regular two-handed typing, but it's not bad.