I am happy to report that Cheryl’s tips have helped me and now I am using braille input fairly effectively. The only problem I had was one of my own making, after I figured it out. I switched to 6dot uncontracted so that my characters would be spelled out. Kept thinking I should be using computer braille and so kept pressing dots 4-6 for a period and getting underscore and getting frustrated, until it hit me, 6-dot uncontracted would mean regular grade 1 braille. So once I figured out that, I am actually really happy with the 6-dot uncontracted, because getting dots 1-6 figured out is enough; I don’t want to deal with dots 7 and 8 as well. I think I may even switch to 6-dot uncontracted on my braille display as well. I still make some mistakes, but I am way better than I was and it is faster even than direct touch typing. I may even remove fleksy, which isn’t working right for me anyway, as braille input for me is faster than even that. So thakns for all the help.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 10:59 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Braille Input: What Helped me Figure it out You do have to choose Braille in each edit field. Teresa "We can see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well, and seeing with the brain is often called imagination."--Oliver Sacks On Sep 26, 2014, at 7:19 AM, Dan Beaver <dbeaver...@gmail.com <mailto:dbeaver...@gmail.com> > wrote: Hi, I haven't seen the manual or anything yet and do not have IOS 8 yet but I have one question about the braille input keyboard. Is it possible to tell the phone to always use braille in any edit field? Or, do we always have to switch it to braille each time we move to an edit field? thanks. Dan Beaver From: Sandy Finley <mailto:finleykn...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 8:01 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Braille Input: What Helped me Figure it out Nicki and others, I don’t know if this will help you but here is a set of steps I have learned from others that helped me with the braille input. 1. When you land in an edit field turn your rotor once to the right. The Braille keyboard is usually there because the Braille setting on your rotor follows the edit field around. 2. I find it useful to use away mode. For some reason, when in table mode, dots 1, 2, 3 appear on the right so everything is backwards. 3. Once in a way mode, Do not calibrate just write. Unfortunately, when trying to use contracted Braille the app does not echo characters. I like to have characters echoed at this point so I write in unconstructed Braille. 4. Flick once left to erase a character and once right for space. 5. 6. 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