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Accessibility & Inclusion
The Key-X

Introducing the Key-X

multifunctional keyboard and mouse

The Key-X

The device that redefines the inclusion of people with disabilities.

The Key-X is an innovative resource, which replaces the keyboard and mouse via an electronic panel with 11 touch-sensitive keys, allowing the user to enter characters and computer commands using just nine keys that are triggered sequentially in pairs, with total and precise control of the mouse pointer intuitively, which gives autonomy to people with motor limitations to control a computer. 

However, offering every function of the keyboard and mouse with total accessibility is just a detail. 

The strategic positioning of the keys, with much larger dimensions and more spaced out than conventional keyboards, greatly facilitates their actuation and enables even operating the unit with the feet or the blink of an eye. The colorful buttons and symbols are based on pedagogical research and developed by specialists that made them accessible and engaging.

In addition, Key-X is compatible with most adaptive switches already in the market, making its use possible even for those who have the minimum conditions for carrying out active movements. The keyboard works directly on any computer, tablet, and smartphone that runs Windows, Mac iOS, Android and Linux operating systems.

The innovation dispenses the need for any specific software, allowing immediate typing and control of the computer, browsing the Internet, using social networks, playing games and learn.

It’s simple, easy and provides people with disabilities the full use of computers in a practical and innovative way!

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The Key-X does much further. In conjunction with the Simplix software and its accessories, the Key-X makes up an amazing platform of digital accessibility, school inclusion and rehabilitation, capable of developing the motor and cognitive skills of students and patients with physical and intellectual disabilities.

Optional

Accessories for the Key-X

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Acrylic Guard

The guard is a removable acrylic mask with holes that coincide with each key of the Key-X, preventing the user with motor difficulties from activating the neighboring keys involuntarily!

  • The thickness of the mask is 5 mm and the hive is accompanied by circular velcro to allow the fixation in the Key-X and its easy removal, according to the need.
  • This product is designed specifically for Key-X, therefore, it does not fit conventional keyboards.

Adaptative switch triggered by the eye blink

A-blinx

The A-blinx is a switch composed of a small electronic sensor that can be easily attached to the stem of any eyeglass frame.

When properly positioned, the sensor is capable of detecting the user’s blink of the eye, making a momentary electrical contact be executed for the realization of simple commands in a computer or electronic device such as the Key-X.

Main Features

  • It can be easily adapted on any eyeglasses frame
  • Simple and intuitive usage
  • It has sound and light signals to indicate the activation of the electric contact
  • It can be used in any electronic device compatible with momentary contact common triggers
  • It has a "sleep mode", in which the user, using a long blink of his eyes, commands the A-blinx to suspend the triggering of the device, and can blink freely thereafter.
    A quick sequence of blinks reactivates A-blinx
  • Powered by the USB cable (included)
  • It can be directly connected to the computer through the USB port, producing the effect of the left mouse click every blink, without the use of an adapted mouse
  • Output through the P2 port (3.5 mm)

Advantages

  • A-blinX is designed to address numerous types of physical and motor deficits, including those resulting from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Cerebral Palsy, Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA), Muscular Dystrophy, high Spinal Medullary Injury, among others
  • Combined with other assistive resources, as the TelepatiX app, it can give people that are severely impaired the possibility to communicate with autonomy

Wired pressure trigger

X-Button

People with several motor impairments and little voluntary movement can control other devices pressing this mechanical trigger even with less force, using short movements of the upper or lower limbs or the head.

  • When paired via Bluetooth with any smartphone or tablet, this trigger allows to write and to vocalize any phrase on the virtual keyboard of the TelepatiX app with a single button.
  • As any common trigger, it can allow the control of the Intelligent Keyboard and Mouse Key-X, through a detachable cable that comes with the product.

Pressure air trigger

X-Queeze

X-Queeze is a pneumatic trigger that acts by means of the pressure exerted on an airbag that can capture the movement of the person with a disability and turn it into an electrical and audible signal. You can also interact with your computer, simulating the pressing of a key. The difference between this and other devices on the market is that X-Queeze is fully adaptable to the user, both ergonomically and at the level of physical stimulation.

This means that even a person with minimal movement in his body can use it. The sensor format (a bladder) makes it can be adapted in any part of the body where the person has more mobility.

 

Typing accelerator

Fluentix

Fluentix is a typing accelerator with a build-in text preview designed to make typing after and less energy-intensive for those who use the Key-X.
This intuitive keyboard software makes typing much easier by suggesting words that are frequently used. As a word is typed, one of the FluentiX suggestions is selected and the user can complete the word quickly by simply touching the two keys next to the suggestion in sequence.

In addition, Fluentix adapts intuitively to your vocabulary, making writing increasingly fluent. Fluentix is compatible with Windows operating systems from XP onwards and can be easily downloaded.

What people are saying

Amazing Testimonials

During many years of Daniel’s school life, what made his life the hardest was the long time to do the activities, especially textual production. A syllabic chart was used for a long time where he nodded to the desired syllable and the support professional spelled the words. After that, we acquired a pointer that was placed on his head, but it was an inviable attempt. Nowadays he uses the Key-X keyboard that meets his needs, because with this resource he has full access to the computer, including the possibility to surf the web, use social networks, type texts, play games, and finally participate in computer classes, a class that’s part of the curriculum of Integrated High School Informatics.
Ana Maria dos Santos
Ana Maria dos SantosMother of Daniel – Salgueiro-PE
I spent three years without being able to talk on the computer about more delicate subjects that I did not want to expose to the caregivers. I am able to talk again about subjects that for a long I did not. Who has privacy, does not know what it is like to be without it.
Gabriel Gobatto Dias Martins
Gabriel Gobatto Dias MartinsBelo Horizonte-MG
He is having a lot of fun. The equipment is very easy to use and he can already write the words correctly in his computer. You can see the joy in my son’s eyes.
Raquel de Lima
Raquel de LimaMother of Gabriel Vinícius – Campo Grande-MS
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