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QualikeyLite

Last modification:	09/10/2008
Author:	BIARD Nicolas, Plate-Forme Nouvelles Technologies - Hôpital Raymond Poincaré
Approximate price:	100€
Type:	Software
Ranking:	•••••

It is a text processing help software.

System requirements :

Operating system : Windows 2000, Me, XP or later (XP Pro recommended).

Processor Pentium III, 600 MHz or greater,

256 MB RAM Memory or more

12 MB hard disk available

Functions :

Cells content : letters, or function symbols

Typing mode : click only

Word prediction : the basic keyboard shows 5 words when typing the first letter. The predicted words can be shown as most frequently used words, most recently used words or alphabetically. Any new word is automatically added to the dictionary. There isn’t the function of anticipation of the possible next word.

Abbreviation/ Extension : it makes it possible to reduce the number of letters to type to write something. The user can create or modify words abbreviations which, once typed, expand into whole words or sentences (ex : “CU” for “See you soon”.

Programming :

The software « Layout Designer » (free download on the website) allows creation, modification and personalization of new virtual keyboards. You can fully personalize your keyboard thanks to very advanced settings.

Concerning the keys, you can set their size, shape, font, colour, position, content (letters, symbols, functions (macro only)

For the keyboard, you can choose the size, the number of cells, …

Advantages :

Easy grid programming.

Provides access to Word (and other applications using text) and Internet.

You can fully personalize your grid.

It is possible to create abbreviation/extension.

It is possible to create macros.

Freely, frequently and automatically updates the keyboard with the latest available version.

Disadvantages :

The size of the pictures does not automatically fit to the size of the key.

Contrary to its big brother Qualikey, the function keys can only contain macros.