[nabs-l] Mis-aligned braille cell on IPhone braille input

[Kaiti Shelton]

That appears to have been the problem. Thanks so much for the help. Now
I'll know to do this in the future if it gets messed up again.
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:51 AM Dezman Jackson <djackson at bism.org> wrote:

> Kaiti,
>
> It may be that you need to recalibrate braille input mode on your phone.
> To do this, turn the rotor to braille input. Then place the 3 fingers of
> your right hand (dots 4 5 6) on the screen where you would like the dots to
> appear. Then while holding those dots, do the same thing with the fingers
> of your left hand. You should hear at least some of the dots announced.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dezman
>
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>
> Hi all,
>
> I started using the braille input when I got my IPhone 6 and love it.
> I was using it fine for a while but I noticed a few weeks ago that now
> dots 1, 2, and 3 are set lower than dots 4, 5, and 6 on the screen.
> If you were to look at the screen you would actually see the little
> icon for dot 3 is partially cut off of the screen because of the
> mis-alignment.  Table-Top mode still shows the dots for the 1, 2, and
> 3 sells further down the screen and not ligned up with dots 4, 5, and
> 6.  I tried turning off braille input and turning it back on and
> resetting the phone.  I also had one of my sighted roommates take a
> look at it but she couldn't see an explanation for why the dots were
> not ligned up anymore either.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem or know of how I might go about
> fixing it?  I know it's a bit picky but it can really throw me off
> when I'm trying to quickly type a message.  Remembering to not have my
> hands ligned up is a little more challenging than I thought.  I tried
> just waiting it out to see if it would change one time when I turned
> on the phone again or something, but nothing has changed.
>
> Note that nothing else is messed up on my phone.  The screen works
> correctly for all the other things and the buttons for the braille
> dots are not ligned up, not just the image of the dots on the screen.
> I don't have an explanation for this at all, but hopefully someone
> more tech-savvy than I will.--
> Kaiti
>
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