Providing a user interactive interface for physically impaired users dynamically modifiable responsive to preliminary user capability testing

In a computer controlled user-interactive display system, a display interface implementation for providing access for physically impaired users to selectable items in a hierarchical arrangement comprising:

• means for the preliminary testing of a user response time in moving a user controlled on-screen pointer from a start point over an equal distance to each of a plurality of said selectable items wherein each item is located within a region of different item layout spacing;
• and
• means responsive to said preliminary testing means for spacing a set of items in said hierarchical arrangement to provide said user with enhanced access to said items in said set.

A method for providing access for physically impaired users to selectable items in a hierarchical arrangement in computer controlled user-interactive display systems comprising:

• preliminarily testing of a user response time in moving a user controlled on-screen pointer from a start point over an equal distance to each of a plurality of said selectable items of different sizes;
• and
• sizing a set of items in said hierarchical arrangement to provide said user with enhanced access to said items in said set responsive to said preliminary testing.

A method for providing access for physically impaired users to selectable items in a hierarchical arrangement in computer controlled user-interactive display systems comprising:

• preliminarily testing a user response time in moving a user controlled on-screen pointer from a start point over an equal distance to each of a plurality of said selectable items wherein each item is located within a region of different item layout spacing;
• and
• spacing a set of items in said hierarchical arrangement to provide said user with enhanced access to said items in said set responsive to said preliminary testing.

A computer program having program code included on a computer readable medium for providing access for physically impaired users to selectable items in a hierarchical arrangement in computer controlled user-interactive display systems comprising:

• means for the preliminary testing of a user response time in moving a user controlled on-screen pointer from a start point over an equal distance to each of a plurality of said selectable items of different sizes;
• and
• means responsive to said preliminary testing means for sizing a set of items in said hierarchical arrangement to provide said user with enhanced access to said items in said set.

A computer program having program code included on a computer readable medium for providing access for physically impaired users to selectable items in a hierarchical arrangement in computer controlled user-interactive display systems comprising:

• means for the preliminary testing of a user response time in moving a user controlled on-screen pointer from a start point over an equal distance to each of a plurality of said selectable items wherein each item is located within a region of different item layout spacing;
• and
• means responsive to said preliminary testing means for spacing a set of items in said hierarchical arrangement to provide said user with enhanced access to said items in said set.