Sorry, that would have been helpful. <smile> It's simple, but you have to do it 
fast: put your right three fingers down, then lift them and put your left three 
fingers down, then lift them. Too slow and you type 4 5 6, 1 2 3, but so long 
as you type both characters in rapid succession, you'll hear an announcement 
about the dots being calibrated, at which point you type like normal.
> On Oct 9, 2015, at 08:35, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> OK, so then, how do you do it?
> 
> Chris.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Hall" <[email protected]>
> To: "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 12:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Incredibly irritating problem with braille input on I O S
> 
> 
> Calibration is a good point, as it might help resolve the problems Chris is 
> running into. Once you get it down, you likely won't need to do it; I did it 
> a good amount last year when BSI was new, but I haven't done it at all in 
> months. I'm on the 5, though, and that's my only input source, so it's hard 
> to get lost or move my fingers on such a small screen. Every user and device 
> will be different, and calibration is, for Chris and anyone else running into 
> problems, worth trying.
>> On Oct 9, 2015, at 00:25, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I forgot to mention:
>> 
>> I almost always use away mode on the iPhone, and table-top mode on the iPad.
>> I hold the phone between my thumbs on the side with the mute switch and the 
>> pinkys on the opposite side. Note: beware with the 6 and 6+ not to press 
>> against the power button with the pinky.
>> I always do the dot position calibration before I start brailling as fingers 
>> always shift a little.
>> 
>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
>> Email: [email protected]
>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On 9 Oct 2015, at 17:07, Blee Blat <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've been reading this thread and I'm trying this out but I have large 
>>> hands and long fingers and a 5s and I'm not sure how to hold the phone to 
>>> comfortably reach the dots. So it's clearly something you have to screw 
>>> with for more than 30 seconds to get to  work but I could see where it 
>>> could be a really efficient input method at least until they fix the other 
>>> input lag issues. The default keyboard is reliable but slow and I'd prefer 
>>> this to dictation. So maybe I just need to waste a few charge cycles 
>>> beating on it until I figure out the coordination?
>>> I'm going to upgrade the phone at some point for the fatter battery and 
>>> larger screen and quicker processor but that still doesn't negate the 
>>> question. It's good  of you to remind us that this is efficient. Not so 
>>> sure about UEB but I might talk to you off list about that as it's possible 
>>> that one is user error but it sure seems to have made a mess of this logic 
>>> textbook lol
>>> :)
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