Jen: Thank you ever so much. I was in the wrong spot. Funny how when you get into an app just being off on the screen only a fraction of an inch can cause it not to work as well as it could. Reggie
-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jennie Facer Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:30 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Problems with BRAILLETOUCH The dots are basically right where you said. Dot 6 should be Right by the home button, and dot 3 by the ear piece. Jenn Sent from my iPhone On Jan 31, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Regina Alvarado <reggie.alvar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry Jen, I misspoke. I am not touching the all caps with my little finger > but my ring finger. I am holding the phone with the screen away from me and > my thumbs on top and little fingers holding the bottom in landscape. What I > need to know, or perhaps this is just more practice, is how far do I put my > Braille key fingers from the sides (top and bottom in portrait) into the > screen to be able to touch the dots. Are they right above the home button > on the right and just below the ear slit on the left or are they further > into the screen? > Reggie > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Jennie Facer > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:06 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Problems with BRAILLETOUCH > > Hi, > > First of all, you don't hold your phone flat down on the table. Act as if > you were going to take a picture of yourself with the back camera. now, put > your palms on each end of the phone. now rest your fingers vertically on > the screen. dots 1, 2, and 3 are your left. Dots 4, 5, and 6 are your > right. I hope this makes some sense. Your hands have to be at each end of > the screen. > > Write me off list if I can be of more helpp. > > Jenn > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 31, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Regina Alvarado <reggie.alvar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I only have the free version right now. However, I keep running into "all >> caps with my little finger on the right of the screen, at sign and the >> letters I am able to get leaving out a dot, for instance m for n j for g, >> etc. Are my fingers too far into the screen perhaps? I was able to make > it >> write totally correctly only once. Now recharging my phone. However, I > do >> like the app if I can get it to reliably give me letters. By the way, how >> do I make the help work? I never found anything on how to delete or enter. >> Of course, I have not played with it very long so not complaining. Maybe > I >> will go to Brailletouch. Went through a couple of podcasts also, but I am >> finding that though these were invaluable tools for understanding what the >> app does and how to hold the phone, putting my hands on the phone and > making >> it do what I want has me somewhat confused. Will keep working at it, >> though. >> Reggie >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of ROBERT CARTER >> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:34 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Problems with BRAILLETOUCH >> >> Hi, >> >> It is so funny how we can have such different experiences with the same > app. >> I was entering text very quickly and quite accurately three or four > minutes >> after installing BrailleTouch. I had listened to a couple of podcasts > about >> it and had read the User's Guide. >> >> I am thrilled with this app. It is awesome for me. >> >> Robert Carter >> >> >> On Jan 31, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Well, there is a help file right there in the app. No need to go to the >> website. If you take a few minutes and read that, I think you will >> understand better how to use the app and won't be so frustrated. The >> description of how to hold the phone is there. 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