Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and everyone whose blood sugar is doing the cha-cha right now: Accessible Diabetes Tracker 1.0 is officially here!
I know a lot of you have been eyeing this program from a safe distance, thinking "Beta? No thanks, I've got enough things in my life that might crash." Fair enough. Well, the wait is over. After 34 betas (yes, 34, I counted, and so did my poor beta testers), version 1.0 is out, it's stable, and it's ready for everyday use.
So what is it? A free Windows program for people with diabetes, built from the ground up to work with screen readers like NVDA and JAWS. I'm blind, I was diagnosed in 2026, and I couldn't find a diabetes tool that played nicely with my screen reader. So I made one. Turns out stubbornness is a renewable resource.
Here's what it does:
- Reads your glucose file from a FreeStyle Libre (through LibreView) or a Dexcom (through Dexcom Clarity), and tells you about it in plain words. No squinting at graphs, because, well, you know.
- Your latest reading, today's readings, week highs and lows, and it can even tell you the last time you hit 300. You may not want to know. It'll tell you anyway.
- A food log, so you can see what that "small" slice of cake really did to you an hour later.
- Compare two stretches of time, patterns by time of day, estimated A1C, and days left on your sensor.
- A doctor report you can save, read with your screen reader, and print to take to your appointment.
- Food lookup, to check the carbs in what you're about to eat. Or what you already ate. No judgment.
- Finger-stick readings, for when your sensor decides to take a day off.
- mg/dL or mmol/L, your choice.
- A menu bar, Ctrl quick keys, and a keyboard shortcut for everything.
And the important part: your health information stays on your computer. It isn't sent anywhere. Not to me, not to some company, not to the cloud, not to your nosy neighbor.
New in 1.0: you choose your updates. Stick with stable releases, or, if you like living on the edge, choose betas too and help me test new stuff before everyone else gets it.
If you were already using a beta, it'll offer you 1.0 the next time it checks for updates. Your readings and food log come along for the ride.
Coming in a later release: LibreView files in mmol/L, for my friends outside the United States. If that's you, the questions page explains how you can help without sending your readings.
Download it, free, at https://www.jjhof.com/adt
Questions and answers: https://www.jjhof.com/adt/faq.php
A huge thank-you to my beta testers, who found bugs I didn't even know were possible. You're the best.
It won't make your sugar behave. Believe me, I asked. But it'll tell you exactly what it's up to.
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