MouseTool is an extremely useful utility for individuals how have difficulty clicking a mouse. Simply roll the mouse arrow over the icon or menu you want to open and MouseTool will perform a single click, double click and, if required, a drag lock.
Large Pointers 1.0
Website :
http://www.ace-centre.org.uk/index.cfm?pageid=F5F26649-3048-7290-FEA80B8B637BF760
Over 80 additional pointers and cursors for those with visual or perceptual difficulties. Icon styles include animated, coloured, large, I-beams and circles.
ZoomIt
With ZoomIt, you can quickly zoom in and highlight part of the screen and then zoom back out.
Text to Speech
Text to Speech lets you listen to text instead of reading on screen! It uses 'Text to Speech' technology to synthesize natural sounding speech from ordinary text. Just copy text to the clipboard or import from text files and listen as IISC reads it back to you!
Text to Speech also allows you to convert text into a MP3/WAV audio file so you can listen later. Create MP3 files from your email, news articles, any text you want, download to your portable MP3 player and off you go!
SteadyMouse
SteadyMouse is free software designed by a couple of geeks to assist people with the hand tremors that commonly go along with Parkinson's disease, Multiple sclerosis, etc.
Major Features:
- Anti-tremor mouse filtering
- Removal of accidental mouse clicks
- Assistive "Icon Targeting" system
- Quick enable/disable using the scroll lock key
- Simple design for easy configuration
Virtual Magnifying Glass
The Virtual Magnifying Glass is a magnifying glass lens that follows the mouse movement.
You can move the lens around the screen to view magnification of any screen area. To close the lens, click the left mouse button. Virtual Magnifying Glass also adds it's own taskbar icon. Left-click on the icon offers a shortcut for launching the lens again.
My Learning Toolkit Toolbar
The toolbar integrates with Word and provides a range of frequently used tools all in one toolbar, for example, frequent homophones (confusables), increasing text size and space, colour background and the 'research' tool for accessing synonyms and encyclopedias on line.
To download the My Learning Toolkit right click the link as select 'Save Target As' to save to your desktop.
Click N Type
Website :
http://www.lakefolks.org/cnt/
Click-N-Type is an on-screen virtual keyboard designed for anyone with a disability that prevents him or her from typing on a physical computer keyboard. As long as the physically challenged person can control a mouse, trackball, touch screen or other pointing device, this software keyboard allows you to send keystrokes to virtually any Windows application or DOS application that can run within a window.
