Taming the Mouse

Free software to make the mouse easier to use for persons with motor-deficits

Please Note:  This software is  no longer avilable.

What is Double Clicking?

"Double-Clicking" refers to rapidly clicking the mouse button. A single-click is used to select and a double-click is used to activate programs and features. The computer must distinguish between two individual clicks and a double-click which it does by measuring the time and distance between two clicks. If the two clicks occurred at about the same time and very close together on the screen, the computer considers this a double-click.

But what happens when a client can not hold her hand steady while double clicking?  Her "double-click" might look, to the computer, like two individual clicks because the clicks (or even a click-and-drag, moving the icon) weren't close enough in time and space. This might seem to be a trivial problem but remember, double-clicking is critical to using many Windows™ programs.