Abstract: According to an aspect a method for providing assistive technology during interactive computer use includes monitoring a plurality of interactions of a user with a computer system and collecting data relating to the interactions of the user by an assistive tool executing on a processor. The assistive tool analyzes the collected data to build and store a plurality of patterns of the interactions of the user. A delay is detected in a current activity of the user on the computer system. Data is retrieved relating to one or more prior interactions that the user has carried out. The retrieved data is matched with the stored patterns of the interactions of the user. One or more probable next steps in the current activity of the user are determined based on the matching. The assistive tool suggests at least one of the one or more probable next steps to the user.

Abstract: According to an aspect a method for providing assistive technology during interactive computer use includes monitoring a plurality of interactions of a user with a computer system and collecting data relating to the interactions of the user by an assistive tool executing on a processor. The assistive tool analyzes the collected data to build and store a plurality of patterns of the interactions of the user. A delay is detected in a current activity of the user on the computer system. Data is retrieved relating to one or more prior interactions that the user has carried out. The retrieved data is matched with the stored patterns of the interactions of the user. One or more probable next steps in the current activity of the user are determined based on the matching. The assistive tool suggests at least one of the one or more probable next steps to the user.

Abstract: Mechanisms for selecting text within a displayed document comprises mechanisms for performing the operations of displaying a document comprising continuous text, receiving user input defining a single continuous area of the displayed document, the defined area covering text within the displayed document that is non-continuous, and capturing the text within the defined area. Objects can also be selected with the tool, and multiple areas can also be selected in the same way, all of which can be of any shape that the user desires.