How I actually play video games with SMA: the tools I use every day
Article excerpt
Andrei Cebotar is 37, lives in Moldova, and has Spinal Muscular Atrophy. My hands get tired fast, by the end of the day I often can’t feel them at all. I can press one mouse button. That’s mostly what I have to work with. And yet I play games, I write, I have conversations […]
Andrei Cebotar is 37, lives in Moldova, and has Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
My hands get tired fast, by the end of the day I often can’t feel them at all. I can press one mouse button. That’s mostly what I have to work with. And yet I play games, I write, I have conversations online. This is how.
This isn’t a neutral roundup. These are the tools I use to access my computer and play games. Some of them are part of my daily routine, others I tried and eventually stopped using. What works for me may not work for everyone, but this is the setup I’ve built around my own needs.
PlayAbility, my face is my controller
Handy, I speak, it types
Xbox Adaptive Controller, the foundation I build on
Tobii Eye Tracker, useful, but I stopped using it
Talon Voice, powerful, but not for me
The combination is the point
None of these tools solves everything on its own. What actually works is layering them. Right now, on a typical day, I’m using PlayAbility for in-game actions, Handy for any text I need to write, and the Xbox Adaptive Controller for movement. Each covers what the others can’t.
See Andrei’s complete post here.