Several years ago, Anthony DeVergillo was playing a video game that required him to point his controller at the screen to save. 

The Bedminster, N.J., man, has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and couldn't lift the controller. "It really frustrated me," he told CBC Hamilton. "I could do everything else in the game, I just couldn't save because it was not accessible. So that was really the last straw for me."

Today, DeVergillo, 31, is the co-creator of software that aims to help people with little or n…