Hi,
For me it works in either landscape or portrait
To calibrate the dots, just place and hold your three fingers on-screen
for about a second in any way you prefer.
To do a character the braille input is broken up per column. So you
first use your three fingers to create the dots in the first column,
which include dots 1 2 and 3. you then use your three fingers again to
create the dots in the second column, that being dots 4 5 and 6. For
each input, you must represent both columns, so dots 1 2 and 3 first
followed by dots 4 5 and 6. If a column has no dots in it, you represent
this by doing a single finger flick right. a space is signified by a
single finger flick down.
For Example to enter the letter l followed by a space you would tap
three fingers on the screen to enter dots 1 2 and 3, (representing the
dots in the first column), then do a swipe right to enter an empty
column, (representing the dots in the second column), followed by a
swipe down to enter the space.
An n would be entered as tapping dots 1 and 3 together (representing the
dots in the first column), followed by dots 1 and 2 together. (which
actually represent the dots 4 and 5 in the second column).
I get the concept but its still difficult to explain via email, so I
hope the above makes some sense.
Cheers,
Brett.
On 8/16/2016 3:39 AM, 'RobH.' via VIPhone wrote:
Ok, thisis going to depend on how well, remaining fingers operate. Can you
form all 3 digits into a line and tap on the desk? can
you isolate various combinations like thunb and third, or thumb and little
fingers, or just the two fingers? All that is enough to
make this work.
I used to use type n braille when you entered two dots at a time from top to
bottom, now you enter 3 dots at a time from left to
right. I gather from the dialogue that swipe or flick right is for blank dots
or even the space.
So, presuming we know which digit is going to be dot1, and by extension, dot 4
afterwards, thisis just double-tapping with
different combinations of digits to form each character. Should become quite
intuative after a while. Assuming right hand use and
thumb as dot1/4, punctuation is going to concentrate on the 3/4th fingers.
Like anything new, one has to think about it some, but for the sake of knowing
how the screen area is divided to register dots
pressed, it shouldn't be more complicated than that.
Ps: does this work in landscape or portrait?
RobH, thinks so.
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 9:40 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Braille Easy Keyboard
I also tried this and while I have no problems with their swipe gestures, when
I got to the point where they wanted me to start
practicing characters I was stumped. I must not understand their concept quite
yet. I became blind when I was 16 in an accident
which involved a home-built pipe bomb (don't worry, it had nothing to do with
terrorism or what most people associate with this sort
of stuff today, just stupid teenager stuff) and I had serious hand injuries. As
a result I only have thumb, ring finger and the
little finger on each hand which basically prevents me from using any other
braille keyboards. I can type on a Perkins or other
mechanical brailler as I can push dots 2 and 3 or 5 and 6 with one finger
together when I have to push all 3 dots on one side, but
I don't think this can work with braille keyboards on the iPhone. I thought
this Braille Easy may make it possible for me to use
braille input as it is supposed to work one-handed and on my right hand where I
have better use of the 3 fingers left I could use my
thumb together with the two other fingers. If anybody figures this one out
maybe they can explain it.
Regards,
Sieghard
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Candy Lowe
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 7:19 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Braille Easy Keyboard
I downloaded the app and played with it for a bit. Applevis may do a podcast
today. I hope so because I couldn't get anywhere on
my own.
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 14, 2016, at 1:47 PM, christopher hallsworth <challswor...@icloud.com>
wrote:
Hello everyone.
While I much prefer Braille Screen Input on iOS, I discovered with
interest a post on the Applevis website www.applevis.com about a
tutorial and third party keyboard app called Braille Easy. This app lets you
type Braille in one hand. This reminds me a lot of
another Braille typing application, TypeInBraille, except this one is I think
better because at least Braille Easy Keyboard can be
used system wide whereas TypeInBraille as of today cannot. The only drawback is
it cannot do contracted Braille, and the only
languages supported are English and Arabic. Having said that, it’s interesting.
Oh by the way it is free compared to TypeInBraille
which is paid last I checked. Go search the app store for Braille Easy. Happy
typing.
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