I know I've said it before, but before the advent of Perkins, and upward braille writers in general; all braille writing was done in this cell format. In the older instance, it was even in mirror image, opposite to how it was read. you wrote from the back, so this app isn't that far fetched, though you do need a long memory to have recognised it.
Rh. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <cahom...@gmail.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 6:29 PM Subject: Re: Braille Touch Doesn't Work as I expected Yes, I originally thought the dots would be arranged along the long side of the phone horizontally. But actually, the fact that this was not the case actually was discussed after the podcast came out. But there has been a lot of traffic on this subject so it's not surprising that some people missed this. When I type with the iPhone and BrailleTouch, I think of a braille cell more than of a Perkins brailler. i think that using typeinbraille kind of prepared me for this. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Feb 1, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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. -- 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.
