Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility

Imagine never having to reach for your mouse to navigate around Windows again. Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? Well wake up: We have some peripherals to burn. Neverclick, from developer Lazo Velko, was published recently with the promise to allow users to perform mouse actions on every single object on their screen with nothing but keyboard shortcuts. Want to close a window, open an application, or click a particular spot on the screen with character-level precision? It’s capable of doing all that, along with selecting multiple spots to click at once to, say, close a bunch of windows at the same time. However, drag and drop and highlight don't work yet. What’s more, Neverclick is completely free, has no account signup, doesn’t serve any ads or collect user data, and works entirely offline, Velko notes in the GitHub readme (the repo is currently for issue reporting only and doesn’t contain the full Neverclick source code). Velko explains on the Neverclick website that he designed the app when he was dealing with a repetitive strain injury that made using a mouse difficult. “I recovered years ago, and I owe it to this software,” the self-professed C++ hater said of his project. “I still use Neverclick every day and can't imagine using my computer without it.” Foolish El Reg reporter, I can hear you saying. This app is nothing new and will have the same problems as other ones: It simply won’t work with software that wasn’t built with accessibility in mind. Velko has heard those complaints, which as he explains in a comment in the Hacker News thread about his app, he didn’t build it with accessibility APIs. He used a computer vision model to perform raw pixel analysis and identify individual elements on the screen instead. “I've had a poor experience with accessibility apis, they're clunky, slow, and unpredictable,” Velko wrote in the thread. “With computer vision you don't have to worry about that.” Velko told The Register in an email that he built the computer vision