Teaching · Special Education

Will this software work when the eyes are the mouse?

Measure the targets the student must hit, against the smallest one they hit reliably, then check what dwell selection breaks: hover menus, dragging, time limits. Each failure comes with a fix to ask for or a setting to try.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 135 items.

The software check

One record per program and student, dated each time you check. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$5 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A verdict for one student and one program, with targets that are too small, failures that block or slow, and a fix for each.
Who it is for
Assistive technology specialists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists and special education teachers who support eye-gaze users.
Format
Browser checklist. One saved record per program and student; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of the measured targets; export and import a file.
Access
$5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
too small, too closelook, hold, select
Drawn for this page. Dwell selection turns every pause of the eyes into a possible click, so software built for a mouse has to be checked target by target.

How to use it

  1. Calibrate first, with the student seated as they are in class.
  2. Find the student’s reliable target size from your own trials on this screen.
  3. Take a screenshot and measure each target they must use.
  4. Try each action the way the student would: by looking, not with a mouse.
  5. Try the fix listed for each failure before ruling the program out.

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What the checklist covers

Why dwell breaks mouse software

With dwell selection, resting the eyes on something works like a hover and then a click. Menus that open on hover, items that must be dragged and small targets close together all cost an eye-gaze user extra attempts and fatigue.

The student’s own size

No single target size suits every eye-gaze user: accuracy depends on calibration, distance, light and the student. The check uses the smallest target this student hits reliably, from your own trials.

What it is not

The checklist is not an eye-gaze assessment or a full accessibility audit. It records whether one program works for one student, on the date checked.

Sources

  1. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, 2023: 1.4.13, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.5.1, 2.5.7, 2.5.8, 3.2.1 and 3.3.4.
  2. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 34 CFR 300.5, 300.6 and 300.324(a)(2)(v): assistive technology devices, services and consideration.
  3. Majaranta, P., and Bulling, A. (2014). Eye tracking and eye-based human-computer interaction. In Advances in Physiological Computing. Springer.
  4. Eye-gaze system makers’ setup documentation on calibration, dwell time and zoom or two-step selection.

The example student and program are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.