Building Custom Accessibility Tools with AI: How Claude Code Helped Create a Scrollbar Automation Solution

Because of a severe mobility impairment—spinal muscular atrophy—I use a Mac for almost everything I do, and I have a particularly unique way of interacting with it.

One of my biggest challenges—aside from typing—is the rather mundane act of scrolling.

I'm unable to manipulate a scroll wheel or perform a swiping gesture. That means the usual methods for scrolling on a mouse or trackpad are out.

The method I do use is probably something you haven't thought about in a long time—I click on and drag the scrollbar.

The capability of AI to create software based on natural language prompts is mind-blowing and the assistive technology implications are astounding.