Overview
What is SwitchXS?
SwitchXS provides virtually complete access to Mac OS X and all standard Mac applications for people who can only use one or more switches.
In depth
A closer look at SwitchXS
It offers full mouse and keyboard emulation by means of a so-called scanning mode. With each click on the switch the user selects an action, such as "move the cursor up" or "type B", from a "scanning" menu.
SwitchXS is typically used by people who are, for example, quadriplegic due to an accident, or suffering from neuromotor diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) with very limited limb movement.
SwitchXS provides a number of predefined scanning panels that the user can choose to move the cursor, click, and type into all standard Mac applications.
It also allows the user to set scanning speed and cycling, mouse speed, and SmartTransparency?, which makes the scanning panel partially or fully transparent when no scan is taking place to enjoy optimum use of screen real-estate.
SwitchXS works with any HID compliant USB gamepad, joystick and keyboard, and starting with Mac OS X 10.3 also with any HID compliant USB mouse or trackball. SwitchXS also works with USB switch interfaces emulating any of the above devices.
Verdict
Should you download SwitchXS?
SwitchXS runs on
Mac OS X 10.2
and is available under the
Demo
license
— the installer is 1.4 MB.
We’ve catalogued it under
System.
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At a glance
SwitchXS specifications
- Publisher
-
Niemeijer Consult
- Last updated
- Jan 3, 2025
- License
- Demo
- Operating system
- Mac OS X 10.2
- File size
- 1.4 MB
- Price
- Free
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