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Allow to hide the mouse cursor #4

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CyrilleB79 opened this issue Jun 11, 2021 · 1 comment
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Allow to hide the mouse cursor #4

CyrilleB79 opened this issue Jun 11, 2021 · 1 comment

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@CyrilleB79
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A request received by e-mail from Alexis Salazar:

  1. Otra opción que para mi es útil, es la siguiente:
    "Ocultar puntero del ratón".
    Cuando hacemos uso de la lupa de Windows el puntero igualmente se vuelve
    más grande, lo que muchas veces se vuelve incómodo en situaciones
    específicas donde quisiera que se ocultara sin que se mueva la pantalla
    con lo que se está mostrando.
    Aveces debo recurrir a lo siguiente:
    • Desactivar el seguimiento del ratón, y luego mover el ratón para
    quitarlo del área de lo que está mostrando la pantalla.
    Esto es útil, pero pierdo la ubicación del ratón, lo cual resulta en
    ocasiones difícil volver a <colocarlo donde estaba porque estoy
    trabajando con una imagen (fotografía o documento escaneado).
    Por tal motivo, sería genial una opción tan fácil como ocultar o mostrar
    el puntero del ratón. Aunque escribirlo es fácil, quizás lograrlo no lo
    sea....

The user is asking to be able to hide the mouse pointer, since with magnification, the pointer may become bigger and hidde the zone of interest.

Personally, I also note that some low vision people may want to work with a bigger pointer to be able to follow it more easily. The downside is that a bigger mouse pointer, being bigger, also masks more things in the zone of interest.

Technically, this should be doable quite easily with the Magnification API.

I am a bit concerned however with the capability to hide permanently the mouse pointer. should a sighted person use the same computer without any knowledge of NVDA or this add-on, this person would be put in difficulty?

I rather imagine a mode where the mouse pointer would automatically hide after a time of inactivity (e.g. 0.5, 1, 2, 3 seconds) and would show up whenever it is moved.
For anyone reading this issue, please comment this idea.
Thanks.

@CyrilleB79
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Additional suggestion received from Alexis Salazar by e-mail on12th June, 2021:

Y con relación a ocultar el puntero del ratón, usted tiene razón, pero mi idea es: presionar un gesto de entrada para que se oculte hasta que se mueva el ratón.

Have a script to hide the mouse cursor and make the mouse cursor reappear as soon as the mouse is moved again.

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