A free round keyboard for people who cannot type with their hands and cannot speak. Runs in the browser, nothing to install: gazewheel.org
Um teclado redondo e gratuito para quem não digita com as mãos e não fala. Roda no navegador, nada para instalar: gazewheel.org
GazeWheel is an on-screen keyboard shaped as a wheel, made for people who point with their eyes (eye tracker), their head (head mouse), or any slow pointer. It speaks the sentence the moment you close it with a full stop, so it works as a voice for people who have none.
- The wheel: the whole alphabet fixed on the outer ring — any letter can be found without hunting. The likely next letters appear large on the inner ring.
- Word prediction that learns your words, and Teach: feed it your own writing so it predicts the way you actually speak.
- Conversation mode: your words full-screen facing the other person, a chime that says wait, I'm typing, saved phrases, dwell selection for eye trackers that don't click.
- Two languages, one engine: English and Portuguese.
- Nothing leaves the computer. No account, no server, no tracking. Your words and your dictionary stay in your browser.
- A typing challenge page, to practise and to see the wheel in action.
People with ALS/MND, cerebral palsy, locked-in syndrome, spinal cord injury — anyone who cannot use their hands to type and cannot speak, and the families, therapists and teachers who work with them. See devices & suppliers for free webcam eye-tracking software and hardware options.
The keyboard carries no version number: it changes when someone says it should. Suggestions come through the feedback page and become the changelog.
Licensed under the MIT License. Use it, copy it, improve it, translate it. If you build something with it, tell us — that is the payment.