<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Mike Walton <<a href="mailto:muddypaws@TOAST.NET">muddypaws@TOAST.NET</a>><br><b>Date:</b> January 26, 2015 at 5:47:44 PM CST<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:DBACTION@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM">DBACTION@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[DBAction] iPad App Brings Braille Keyboard to Blind Users’ Fingertips</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> Deaf-Blind Citizens for Political Action <<a href="mailto:DBACTION@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM">DBACTION@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>iPad App Brings Braille Keyboard to Blind Users’ Fingertips</span><br><span></span><br><span>iBrailler Notes, which began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and is now available as an app for iOS, aims to offer blind and vision-impaired iPad users an easy way to type Braille notes and perform basic word processing on a touchscreen.</span><br><span></span><br><span>What iBrailler does differently is position its touch keyboard underneath the user’s fingertips, no matter where they set them on the iPad’s slick glass display. Every time you lift and readjust your hands on the screen, the keyboard does too. The keyboard uses Braille English Grade 1, Grade 2, and Six-Dot Computer Braille, and features built-in gestures for tasks like cutting, copying, and pasting text. </span><br><span></span><br><span>iBrailler isn’t the first to undertake this commercially. There are a variety of appsdesigned for the sight-handicapped, ranging from camera applications that describe the content of an image aurally to other Braille-reading and writing apps. Add to these the numerous accessibility features Apple offers on iOS, most notably VoiceOver, which reads text aloud to sight-impaired users, and its Braille QWERTY keyboard.</span><br><span></span><br><span>More than 6.6 million Americans over the age of 16 are visually impaired, according to estimates by The National Federation of the Blind. Much of that number are able to use computers thanks to the tactile feedback of a keyboard, optionally with raised Braille lettering on top, or a refreshing Braille display.</span><br><span></span><br><span> Source: <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/01/ibrailler-ipad-app/?">http://www.wired.com/2015/01/ibrailler-ipad-app/?</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>***********************************************</span><br><span>------------------------------------------------------</span><br><span>To leave DBAction, send a blank message to:</span><br><span><a href="mailto:DBACTION-SIGNOFF-REQUEST@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM">DBACTION-SIGNOFF-REQUEST@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM</a></span><br><span>To subscribe, send a blank message to:</span><br><span><a href="mailto:DBACTION-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM">DBACTION-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM</a></span><br><span>Archives: <a href="http://COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM/archives/DBACTION.html">http://COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM/archives/DBACTION.html</a></span><br><span>Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Please contact:</span><br><span>List Owner: Melly Bond at <a href="mailto:ipo56@aol.com">ipo56@aol.com</a></span><br><span>Moderators:</span><br><span>Melly Bond "List Owner" at <a href="mailto:ipo56@aol.com">ipo56@aol.com</a></span><br><span>Timothy Jackson at <a href="mailto:TJJHULK24@gmail.com">TJJHULK24@gmail.com</a></span><br><span>Mike Walton at <a href="mailto:muddypaws@toast.net">muddypaws@toast.net</a></span><br><span>------------------------------------------------------</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>