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BBAutoComplete adds word auto-completion to scriptable applications. You type the start of a word, press a key, and BBAutoComplete types the letters to complete the word. If BBAutoComplete guessed wrong, you can keep pressing the key to cycle through other possible completions.

Text expansion tools are exactly suited to automatically add the accents, graves, and acutes to words as you type. TextExpander offers a free expansion pack to add a list of accented English words automatically, but you could add them to any text expansion tool yourself.

Dustin Oakley from The Crass Pip blogged about Mac based Text Expansion tools in the last AT Carnival:
Text Expansion: Wasting Time Trying to Save Time tells of my travails as I tried several tools to improve my typing speed. I recently added an addendum, Text Expanders Revisited. While this reads too much like an [...]

Virtually all computer keyboards in English speaking countries are arranged so that the letter keys, if you read from the top-left, start of with QWERTY. What are the alternatives and why would you want to change anyway?

I already wrote about TextExpander, but here’s a little more information from Lifehacker about what text expansion is and why it can save keyboard users time and energy:
Save Time With Text Substitution is a general introduction which mentions both Mac and Windows programs for text substitution.
TextExpander Gets Even Better is an in-depth look at the [...]

San Francisco, CA — October 16, 2007 — SmileOnMyMac has released TextExpander 2.0, a new version of its customizable typing shortcut tool for Mac OS X. With TextExpander, users can define abbreviations for frequently-used text strings and images, also known as snippets. When an abbreviation is typed, it expands automatically to the full snippet. The [...]

AutoPairs modifies the behavior of certain keystrokes, to help you keep paired characters such as parentheses properly matched and save on key presses.

A keyboard layout for Mac OS X that transforms your current keyboard into a left handed Dvorak keyboard.
Website: Left handed Dvorak keyboard
- Ricky Buchanan, ATMac