I have been asked to help in a project for a local school for severely disabled children and young adults. These are people who spend all their lives in a wheelchair, and have severely curtailed movement in arms and hands.

A favourite activity is to play role playing games from Dungeon and Dragon books. The school has electronic dice controlled by large buttons so that the kids feel that they are participating. A local university has also designed some units that can be mounted on a wheelchair and used to control digital cameras.

I am asking you, in the Linux community, if you can help me with the following questions.

Are there some text based D&G games that can be modified to accept up,down,left, right, yes no type of inputs like a basic joystick?

Can a usb joystick be modified to have giant button pads?

Has anybody already produced something like this?

If you have any ideas, or know someone who could help, please pass this on to them. I have set up an email address project@blue-skys.org for this, or use the forum contact.