Hi everyone, I didn't hear the podcasts on Braille Touch before release, but thought I'd download it and have a play. The fact that you can try the app before purchase is excellent.
I am a lifelong Braille user and input in Braille every day. And I think this is my problem. When I heard about Braille Touch, I imagined that you would input Braille in the same way that you would on a Perkins or refreshable Braille display that offers a keyboard. But really you don't. On such products, the keys are aligned horizontally. Perhaps there's a little diagonal placement for the sake of ergonomics, but fundamentally they are horizontal. With Braille Touch, however, dost 1, 2 and 3 are under each other. This is how they obviously appear when reading the cell, but not when you're inputting. So people who do a lot of input on refreshable Braille displays are going to have to remember to Braille as the cell looks, not as they would on a Braille device. I wonder if making the dots horizontal could be a future setting. I think there's enough screen space for this to work, and I know for my part I'd find it more intuitive because of the amount of Brailling I do on other devices. Congrats to the developers on the app. Jonathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
