Programs for Filling In Web Forms? 22
cafebabe asks: "My mother has severe arthritis and must do a lot of her shopping online since it is painful for her to walk. Since she also has trouble typing, she needs a program to help her fill out all of the data entry fields on web sites. When I was home over Thanksgiving, I saw that my mother had Gator on her computer. I uninstalled it, explained spyware to her, and installed RoboForm, which I had heard good things about. RoboForm ended up causing her computer to crash so my father uninstalled it. Is RoboForm really the best thing out there or do any of you know of something better?"
Uhhh... (Score:2, Redundant)
Re:Uhhh... (Score:1)
Re:Something better (Score:1)
I don't think that would solve much.
ummm...... (Score:3, Informative)
Also, ensure you actually removed all of Gator's excess baggage. Spyware tends to have ways of having the sinister stuff stick around after being uninstalled.
Re:ummm...... (Score:2, Informative)
The main problem for these is poorly designed forms that, for example, have the phone number as two input boxes (international + local number). Designing forms in such a way makes it difficult to paste preset variables.
Re:ummm...... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:ummm...... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:ummm...... (Score:1)
voice recognition (Score:4, Insightful)
I've heard good things about IBM's offerings, and I think that they've teamed up with Opera, although that may be only for PDAs and mobile phones.
Re:voice recognition (Score:4, Insightful)
I imagine also, that a quick websearch might lead you to handicapped access software and hardware thatcould be useful to your grandmother. After all, she needs to type for more than just forms and this would help her out if she wants to write email or write anything else for that matter.
I'd also take a serious look at the type of mouse/or trackball she is using. These devices usually force the hand into an artificially cramped position that is painful for arthritis sufferers.
We'll all grow old eventually and helping the elderly deall with problems like this now means that better solutions will exist when we face these problems.
If you find anything interesting in your research, please share it, via Slashdot or your own website.
Mozilla (Score:4, Informative)
IE has some form data-remembering feature as well, but I don't trust MS with the data much further than I do gator.
Mozilla has it (Score:5, Informative)
If the prospect of using a program called Mozilla terrifies her and you don't want all the extra crap that comes standard with Netscape, use SillyDog [sillydog.org]'s steamlined Netscape. Then add the mother-friendly pop-up blocking feature [ufaq.org] back and she should be good to go.
Re:Mozilla has it (Score:3, Informative)
It's under "Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Forms" as well as the "Tools -> Form Manager" menu in Mozilla 1.2.1 on both Win2k and OS X.
Mozilla (Score:1, Informative)
If you don't want to give up the look of IE, try the IE skin [mozdev.org].
Open Passport? (Score:3, Interesting)
Roll your own (Score:5, Interesting)
used forms and put an icon on the desktop for it.
Here'' You can download WSH 5.6 from
' - http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/vbscript/scri
Option Explicit 'Set an automatic error for all undefined variables
Const promptTitle = "Enter Private Key Password"
Const ShowSigningStatus = True
Dim Wshshell, fso, oExec, shell, counter, tmp, signResult, exeError, objArgs
Dim strPassword: strPassword = ""
'Create an object array of the command line arguments
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
if NOT Wshshell.AppActivate(promptTitle) Then
MsgBox "No such window, "+promptTitle
WScript.Quit
End If
Wshshell.AppActivate(promptTitle)
Wshshell.Sen
WScript.Sleep 200
Wshshell.SendKeys("{ENTER}") ' Send an enter key to the Dialogbox.
WScript.Quit
s a kernel to get you started:
Re:Roll your own (Score:2)
before I posted. However, I'm too lazy to dig it up
again and repost:P
hmmmm (Score:1)
does she have a phone (Score:3, Interesting)
and im not trying to be a dick, but remember, computers are not the answer to everyones problem, nor are they usable by all. But luckily alternatives exist.
Opera! (Score:1)
Discover Deskshop (Score:2, Interesting)
More details: http://www2.discovercard.com/shopcenter/deskshop/