The GNOME desktop environment includes an on-screen keyboard.
It’s activated by opening the Activities overview and then start typing Settings. Click the Settings icon that appears, and choose Accessibility in the sidebar. Move the slider adjacent to Screen Keyboard to the on position as shown in the image below.
Website: Part of the GNOME desktop environment
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Developer: GNOME Project
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Related Software
| Screen-readers | |
|---|---|
| Orca Screen Reader | Screen-reader which provides access to applications and toolkits |
| Liblouis | Braille translator, back-translator and formatter |
| Speakup | Kernel-based speech synthesizer driver suite |
| BRLTTY | Provides access to the console using a refreshable braille display |
| Emacspeak | Emacs extension that provides spoken output |
| Odilia | Rust-based screen reader |
| SBW | Text editor with support for braille input |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
| Universal Access Tools | |
|---|---|
| Orca Screen Reader | Scriptable screen reader |
| Liblouis | Braille translator, back-translator and formatter |
| Florence Virtual Keyboard | Extensible scalable virtual keyboard |
| Speakup | Kernel-based speech synthesizer driver suite |
| Onboard | Useful for tablet PC users and for mobility impaired users |
| BRLTTY | Gives a braille user access to the text consoles |
| Julius | Two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine |
| Emacspeak | Emacs extension that provides spoken output |
| Mouse actions | Execute commands from mouse events |
| GOK | GNOME On Screen Keyboard |
| CoreKeyboard | Simple virtual keyboard with word suggestions |
| Dasher | Graphical predictive text input system |
| Odilia | Rust-based screen reader |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
| Virtual Keyboards | |
|---|---|
| Florence | Extensible scalable virtual keyboard |
| Maliit | Virtual keyboard implemented as a plug-in for Maliit Framework |
| squeekboard | Keyboard-shaped input method supporting Wayland |
| GOK | GNOME On Screen Keyboard |
| CoreKeyboard | Simple virtual keyboard with word suggestions |
| Onboard | Onscreen keyboard useful for tablet PC users and for mobility impaired users |
| xvkbd | Virtual (graphical) keyboard program |
| wvkbd | On-screen keyboard for wlroots |
| eekboard | Easy to use virtual keyboard toolkit |
| QVKbd | Virtual keyboard written in C++ and QML |
| qtvkbd | Fork of kvkbd with all KDE4 dependencies replaced with Qt components |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
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