Accessibility Software
Most of these applications and artwork were designed and built without the use of my hands—using a head-tracking Bluetooth mouse, voice commands, and assistive tech that lets me code, connect, and build.
AccessibilityMouse
Technology has always been my passion, and after a spinal cord injury left me paralysed from the shoulders down, I needed to find a way to keep creating, exploring, and innovating.
The challenge I faced was simple but frustrating: controlling a tracking mouse requires fine-grain adjustments to speed and acceleration that most systems don’t provide. That’s why I built this app.
With it, you can fine-tune Pointer Speed—the base sensitivity of your cursor—for either fast sweeping movements or precise, detailed control. You can also adjust Pointer Acceleration, which changes how the cursor responds as you move faster or slower, giving you smooth and natural control that adapts to your style.
This may sound small, but for me it’s been life-changing. And if you’re reading this, I hope it helps you too.
AccessiScroll
I rely on a gyroscopic mouse to use my computer, and on more and more of the modern web that’s a problem: scrollbars are styled razor-thin, only appear on hover, or are hidden completely. Trying to land a pointer on a 4-pixel sliver of a scrollbar can make a site effectively unusable.
AccessiScroll is a Chrome extension that gives you back a big, visible, grabbable scrollbar on every site—in whatever size and colours work for your eyes and your hands. A simple popup lets you set the width (12–32px), pick thumb and track colours, and toggle it per-site or globally, with an Alt+Shift+S keyboard shortcut.
Many sites deliberately override scrollbar styling to defeat ordinary CSS injection, so AccessiScroll injects its styles at user origin—the one mechanism guaranteed to win. It’s free and open source—install it in one click from the Chrome Web Store, or grab the source and installation instructions on GitHub.
FluidVoice
Unlike the other apps on this page, I didn’t build this one—but it’s too good not to share. Don’t pay for voice dictation software like Wispr Flow or Superwhisper: FluidVoice is a free, open-source dictation app for macOS that does the same job brilliantly.
Everything runs on your Mac: real-time speech-to-text with virtually no delay between speaking and seeing words appear, plus a local AI model that polishes your dictation as you go—no cloud, no subscriptions, and no audio leaving your machine.
For anyone who relies on their voice to type, this is exactly what accessibility software should look like. It’s built by ALTIC, free under an open-source licence, with Windows and iOS versions on the way.
Pauselet
Pauselet exists because sitting still is not optional when you can’t move yourself. Pressure relief matters enormously, and it is very easy to forget when you’re concentrating on something else. I tried calendar alerts and generic timer apps, and they all had the same flaw: every reminder interrupted me in exactly the same way, so a nudge to drink water felt no different from a prompt I couldn’t afford to miss. I was ignoring all of them.
Pauselet is a macOS menu bar app that fixes that by letting you choose, reminder by reminder, how loudly it interrupts you. A Subtle reminder is a small, silent card in the corner that fades away—right for a frequent nudge like shifting your weight every 20 minutes. Normal is an ordinary notification, and Important adds a sound and is marked time-sensitive. A Critical reminder covers your display until you acknowledge it, because ignoring some reminders, like hourly pressure relief, has real consequences.
It comes set up with examples, which you can edit or delete before adding your own, whether that’s medication or calling your mum every Sunday. A reminder can start your music too, fading up a Spotify playlist as it appears, which makes “stop working for five minutes” relaxing. There’s a countdown to the next reminder in the menu bar, quiet hours, a pause button for meetings, and a history of what you completed that can help when you next see your physio or OT.
The idea for this was inspired by Lauren from Linds stressing the importance of skin health and management to me and the long-term consequences of not managing this.
Speechy
Capture your thoughts effortlessly with real-time audio recording and instant speech-to-text that feels natural. Speechy doesn’t just transcribe—it polishes your words, fixing grammar and removing filler phrases like “um” or “you know” so you sound clear and confident.
With hotkey controls and system tray integration, starting or stopping a recording is just one tap away. A visual indicator keeps you in the loop, while auto-typing places your transcription directly where your cursor is—whether it’s an email, a doc, or a chat.
Personalize your setup with configurable models, hotkeys, and features, and stay informed with smart notifications. Every session is securely logged to file, so your ideas are always saved, always accessible.
MotiVate
This app was created to share strength on the days you need it most. Simple but powerful, it delivers motivational messages about courage, perseverance, and perspective—the kind I wished for during my darkest moments.
I don’t have it all figured out, and I still live with pain, but I’ve learned that you can survive almost anything by breaking it down into small, bearable pieces. This app is my way of passing that lesson on.
If even one message, one quote, or one image helps you get through a hard day, then it’s all been worth it.
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Accessible Asteroids
I’ve been frustrated not being able to find games I can play with my gyroscopic mouse, so I faithfully redesigned and built an accessible recreation of the classic 1979 Atari arcade game, rebuilt to be playable entirely with a mouse pointer — including a head mouse, gyroscopic pointer, or facial tracking, so it can be enjoyed without using your hands.
Move the mouse to aim, left-click to fire, hold to thrust, and right-click for hyperspace. An accessibility-focused settings panel lets you adjust difficulty, starting lives, sound, and volume, while keeping the classic gameplay — the wraparound playfield, triangular ship, asteroids, and flying saucers.
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Please note all of this software is free to use. It cannot be commercially distributed or resold. There is no warranty or guarantees associated with it. I take no responsibility for any problems / issues that may result from you using my free software. Apart from FluidVoice, these tools were designed to help me. I use them every day. You will encounter bugs—when you do, please report them to me using the contact form on this website.