Tablet PC for Quadriplegic

RobertKaucher

One of my very close friends was in a bad car accident about 7 years ago or so. She has only very limited mobility in her arms. Basically she can raise her arms and bend her elbows. She has no movement in her hands to articulate her fingers. She is completely paralyzed from the shoulders down.

It’s time for her to get a new laptop. She is an urban planner, so this is no a simple email/surf type thing that an iPad might be OK for. Do you guys have any suggestions? She’s looked at a few items but cannot have anything that does not have a good degree of sensitivity on the touch screen. The ability to use a stylus would be helpful.

tiersten

Hmm. Tablet PCs are generally quite fiddly to use even if you have full mobility in your arms. Anything that uses complicated multitouch gestures is going to be infuriating to use as well so that will make the iPad a bad choice.

Are you sure that a regular laptop wouldn't be easier? I've no idea. Just asking.

You can get third party styluses for resistive and capacitive touchscreens now. It won't have a special slot in the device to store it but I wouldn't worry about a stylus being included as standard.