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Apologies, this may be off topic. Ham radio operators are the probably the only community that might have used Handicode. Back in 2002, a company "Microsystems Software" made a DOS program that allowed a morse code keyer to be used as an input device for a computer. They appear to be long out of business, as their website is down, and the internet wayback archive only contains references to Cyber Patrol.

I'm trying to create a similar device for a blind user that used to own one. The first step is to track down a copy of the documentation so I can reproduce the extended morse code characters, such as ALT, CTRL, and SHIFT.

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You did find this page, and this page didn't you? It seems an awfully costly solution. Isn't the blind person able to use a normal keyboard?

That said, there are a few programs that take code, even from tapping one key, which produce ASCII output. At least in Linux, it would not be difficult to redirect the commands to the shell to be executed.

Edit: I'd suggest that using a USB mouse and connect to one of the buttons would be an interesting solution. Depending on the dexterity, one could even imagine a sidesweeper with two buttons. As I mentioned before, there are a few open-source programs available on the 'net, which should be adaptable to that. And directing the output to a sound generator or even speech synth, and use the text for commands should not be too difficult.

Here are some promising links:

http://morse-rss-news.sourceforge.net/ (uses mouse as keyer, source code is available on Sourceforge)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/morsecodees/ (seems promising, should investigate more)

This page has lots of morse decoders:

http://radio.linux.org.au/?sectpat=morse

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