Top 3 JavaScript assistive-technology Projects

cboard

4 638 9.5 JavaScript

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) system with text-to-speech for the browser

Project mention: Best AAC/Text-to-Speech | /r/SpicyAutism | 2023-07-07

Cboard works on Android and Windows and web browsers. It's free because it's open-source and you can turn on "live mode" in settings which lets you type your own cards and play them out loud straight away without having to store them (like TTS).

EyeCommander

9 53 3.8 JavaScript

An open source computer vision interface that tracks eye movements for individuals with severely-limited mobility.
SurveyJS

surveyjs.io sponsored

Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
dasher-web

1 41 5.8 JavaScript

Dasher text entry in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SVG

Project mention: Show HN: Next-token prediction in JavaScript – build fast LLMs from scratch | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-10

Their library was actually made for dasher.. http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/ - there was a web version being made (https://github.com/dasher-project/dasher-web We hit a bottleneck with the graphics driving. Note in dasher pretty much the entire tree is in dynamic view). Now this may help to understand the use case. Dasher is for people with disabilities who cant speak. It needs to be a personalised LM that trains on the fly and and keeps track of new words/sentences. But in truth too, utterances are usually small.
Don't get too knocked back by comments. A) If it works - it works. B) Your learning is as valuable as the outcome.
Oh have a look at https://imagineville.org/software/ for some other things that may be of interest..

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).