Double-click/tap speed
This feature speeds up or slows down the time allowed between clicks/taps to make a double-click/tap, or turn off the need for double-clicks/taps altogether.
Discussion by Disabilities
Adjustable options may make it easier for people with physical disabilities to perform “double-click/tap” operations.
Existing Products
Please note that these products are not necessarily endorsed by RtF, but represent the range of available options.
Open Source and free
These products are free and their source code may be modified with few restrictions.
Free, not necessarily open source
These products are free to use, but may have strict restrictions on viewing and modifying source code.
- Dwell Clicker – Sensory Software
- Point-N-Click virtual mouse – Polital Enterprises, LLC
Commercial, with free trial
These products are free to try for a limited period of time or with limited functionality. They must be purchased for full functionality.
- Dragger – Origin Instruments
- Nib & McNib – Designer Appliances
- SmartClick – IMG
Commercial, no free trial
These products must be purchased to be used, and did not offer free trials at the time of posting.
- Magic Cursor 2000 – Madentec
- VS VirtuaClick – Viking Software
Related Research and Papers
- Beyond dwell time: estimating document relevance from cursor movements and other post-click searcher behavior- Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein
- Modeling dwell time to predict click-level satisfaction- Youngho Kim, Ahmed Hassan, Ryen W. White, Imed Zitouni
- Command without a click: dwell time typing by mouse and gaze selections- John Paul Hansen et. al
- Augmenting the mouse with pressure sensitive input- Jared Cechanowicz, Pourang Irani, Sriram Subramanian
- OptiDwell: Intelligent Adjustment of Dwell Click Time- Aanand Nayyar, Utkarsh Dwivedi, Karan Ahuja, Nitendra Rajput, Seema Nagar, Kuntal Dey
- Small-device users situationally impaired by input- Yeliz Yesilada, Simon Harper, Tianyi Chen, Shari Trewin
- Follow that sound: using sonification and corrective verbal feedback to teach touchscreen gestures- Uran Oh, Shaun K. Kane, Leah Findlater
- Design Touch Feedback for Blind Users - Shuang Xu, Kyle Bailey
- Improving Accessibility Design on Touchscreens- Shuang Xu
- Towards natural interfaces to interact with physical systems using smart mobile devices- Jared Alan Frank, Vikram Kapila
- Universal Design (UD) Guidelines for Interactive Mobile Voting Interfaces for Older Adults- Ljilja Ruzic Kascak, Seunghyun “Tina” Lee, Elaine Yilin Liu, Jon A. Sanford
- An evaluation of BrailleTouch: mobile touchscreen text entry for the visually impaired- Caleb Southern, James Clawson, Brian Frey, Gregory Abowd, Mario Romero