Projects

• Flo Tools: Making Pro Tools Accessible for Blind and Visually Impaired Audio Professionals

  Flo Tools is a free, open-source accessibility tool for Avid Pro Tools. It is used by blind and visually impaired audio engineers, students, and musicians around the world. It provides keyboard-driven workflows via Keyboard Maestro and VoiceOver UI scripts, translating common Pro Tools operations into accessible keyboard commands for one of the industry’s most widely used digital audio workstations.

• VOCR: Screen Recognition and AI for VoiceOver Users

  VOCR is a free, open-source macOS application that makes inaccessible on-screen content usable with VoiceOver by combining OCR with AI-powered image analysis. It lets blind and visually impaired users read graphics-heavy interfaces, video subtitles, and any content VoiceOver cannot access on its own, using keyboard shortcuts that work from anywhere in macOS. Features include OCR of current window, an Ask AI mode that sends screen images to a vision language model, real-time OCR for live captions, AI-driven screen region exploration, and camera capture.

• VOLlama: An Accessible Chat Client for Local Language Models

  VOLlama is a free, open-source chat client that makes large language models accessible to screen reader users. It supports both macOS and Windows. Features include a keyboard-navigable chat interface, automatic text-to-speech via screen readers, SAPI, or NSSpeechSynthesizer, multimodal image attachment for vision-capable models, retrieval-augmented generation from local documents and URLs using LlamaIndex, and customizable parameters such as temperature and context window size.

• AI SimBot: AI-Powered Communication Simulation for Training

  AI SimBot is a free, open-source educational platform that uses AI to create realistic communication simulations for professional training. It was originally developed to help nursing students at Northeastern University practice the CRAFFT screening tool. Learners interact with a simulated patient via text or voice, powered by OpenAI’s Whisper for speech recognition and OpenAI TTS for output, and receive immediate structured feedback on their performance. Scenarios are fully customizable by editing the prompts that defines the AI’s role, persona, and interaction structure, making the tool adaptable to any discipline. Built on Streamlit and the OpenAI API, it requires only an OpenAI API key and a forked repository to run.

• AME: Accessible Markdown Editor

  AME (Accessible Markdown Editor) is a free, open-source Markdown editor built for screen reader users that keeps the interface simple and fully keyboard-accessible. Writers can switch between a Markdown source view and a rendered HTML preview, export their work to an HTML file, or copy the rendered HTML to the clipboard. The editor supports extended Markdown syntax including tables, footnotes, and fenced code blocks.

• PTAccess: Pro Tools Tutorial for Screen Reader Users

  PTAccess is a free, accessible online tutorial for screen reader users learning Pro Tools, Avid’s professional audio production software. It spans 23 chapters covering the full workflow, from initial setup and VoiceOver configuration through recording, editing, mixing, automation, and signal routing. It includes audio examples and sample session files for hands-on practice, and is intended for musicians, audio engineers, and production students who rely on VoiceOver.

• SibAccess: Sibelius Tutorial for Screen Reader Users

  SibAccess is a free, accessible tutorial series for blind and visually impaired musicians learning Sibelius notation software with screen readers. It spans three progressively advanced parts, guiding users from basic score navigation and note input through lyrics, chord symbols, drum notation, repeat structures, and file export. It covers all the basics needed to compose and produce scores independently.