[nfbcs] first message with braille keyboard

[John Heim]

So I actually learned about this feature in IOS from another blind guy 
while sitting on top of a rock formation called The Sentinel in 
Mississippi Palasades State Park in Illinois. That's another interesting 
story. Anyway, In IOS, you can enable a feature that allows you to type 
as if you're using a braille keyboard. So to type the letter m, for 
example, you'd tap the index and ring finger on your left hand and the 
index finger on your right hand at the same time. That would be dots 1, 
3, and 4.

I have only just started using this feature myself and I got cramps in 
my hands just typing out that short first message. But I think I'll get 
better with practice.  I would say that when I get going, I am probably 
already faster than I am with the regular qwerty keyboard on my iphone. 
I can sometimes type a bunch of characters in a row. Then I get off the 
mark and it starts putting in nonsense characters. But at one point it 
put the integral symbol in the message so that is actually a good sign. 
I have no idea how I got it to do that though.

Enabling the braille keyboard is buried deep in the accessibility 
settings somewhere. Here is a link to a blog about it:
http://bdmtech.blogspot.com/2014/09/new-in-ios-8-built-in-braille-keyboard.html


On 03/27/2018 11:44 AM, Donald Winiecki via nfbcs wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:38 AM, John Heim via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> I am typing this with the braille keyboard on my iphone. Do you all know abovaut the braille keyboard on the iphone?
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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