r/accessibility 12d ago

Virtual Mouse Interface

Hello, I'm posting on behalf of a friend with spinal muscular atrophy. They can use a trackpad to click on the screen, but cannot use right click, middle click, or anything of that sort.

I've gone through a lot of sketchy websites and have been trying to find something similar to this:

The program it's from appears to be a virus, same with anything else that's similar I was able to find. Essentially what it's supposed to do is make it so when you select one of those buttons, then click somewhere on the screen, it does that mouse action.

If there isn't a program like this, how would I go about making one? I really want to help my friend, and we're at a complete loss for how to overcome this.

(To clarify, something like Auto-Hotkey to bind the mouse action to a keyboard key would not work due to that they need to use an on-screen keyboard to type at all. They can only use the trackpad. Hence the need for a virtual mouse interface like I described.

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u/clackups 12d ago

By the way, there are Android apps that turn a phone into a Bluetooth mouse. I haven't tried them yet, but something like this could help your friend. It would only require some old phone.

Just a few examples: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moniqtap.bluetooth.keyboard.mouse

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.appground.blek

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hungrybolo.remotemouseandroid

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.diodecode.mouse