Hello,
I’m aware that there are many people looking for an accessible typing
program for the mac. I’m proud to say that today the agency I work for (The New
Mexico Commission For The Blind) has released a cross-platform typing program
called Keystroke. You can download it from our website here
<http://www.cfb.state.nm.us/Keystroke.html>. It is in it’s early stages but has
some promising results and as the developer I’d be willing to listen to any
feature requests you all might have. Most importantly this software is now and
always will be 100% free. I’ll outline some of it’s features below.
Keystroke works with various braille displays, making it one of the first
typing programs that can be used with the deaf-blind (or non-native english
speakers).
Default lessons that were built based on a lot of in-class research to give the
best chance of learning to type correctly.
The ability to use the correct (left/right) shift keys.
Along with this Keystroke has the ability to make sure that students are using
the caps lock key correct (thus eliminating the caps + letter + caps syndrome)
Completely customizable lessons (so you can add, or edit your own lessons to
your hearts desire).
Along with this comes the “Lesson calculator” which is designed to give you
feedback on your custom lessons, how complex they are, how long it’ll take a
student to type them etc..)
The ability to import/export lessons. So if you create lessons you’d like to
share or someone else has made some you think are cool it’s very easy to open
them and use them with Keystroke.
Because of it’s compatibility with braille displays it can be used to test
Braille writing speeds.
It learns from you as you type and gives useful feedback via the “Keyboard
Assistant” (This can even provide directional feedback such as: “The j key is 2
keys to the right”)
Designed to work natively with VoiceOver
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