And frankly, if you're a pianest, you should be curving your fingers anyway.
It's correct technique. So, my point being, you already should be familiar
with doing this. I'm a professional piano player myself, so lying my fingers
flat isn't very natural, but I did it just to see what would happen, and Alex
is correct. It's definitely less reliable.
Chris.
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From: Alex Hall
To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: Incredibly irritating problem with braille input on I O S
I have pretty good-sized hands too, enough that I can use my thumb to hit F#
on the low E string of a guitar while my other fingers remain on the bottom
strings; enough that I can, at a stretch, hit an octave plus two keys on a
piano (not that I can really play one). I've used an iPhone 5 for braille input
for years, starting with BrailleTouch, up through Mbraille, and now iOS. It's
easy to do, once you get the right amount of curve in your fingers for your
hands. Don't hold the fingers flat, curve them like you were in the beginning
stage of making a fist. They should be arched so that the ends come to rest on
the screen, but no more than that, and there should be good separation between
the two hands (but not between the individual fingers of either hand). Again,
it's hard to explain in text or audio, but hopefully I'm making sense.
On Oct 9, 2015, at 10:37, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi!
Sorry for asking this question.
But i never got braille input to work on an ios device.
Even though Alex Hall did a great podcast on it.
Is an iphone 5S maybe a bit to small for a guy like me.
My fingers are very long.
Piano style fingers.
/A
On 09 Oct 2015, at 04:57, Jeffrey Shockley <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Thank you for explaining this. I was trying to explain what was going on
to someone the other day, and we never did come to any real conclusion. We
thought it was my phone being crazy. LOL. I was wondering why it wasn’t
working right for me.. Guess this is why. :)
Thanks again for your help. :)
Jeffrey
On Oct 8, 2015, at 10:37 PM, David Chittenden <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello,
When you turn the iPhone away from you, have the home button to the
right. VO will announce home button to the left. This is correct, but the home
button actually is on the right. Now, Away mode is correct. Dots 1 2 and 3 are
on the left side, dots 4 5 6 are on the right side. Note: this message was
written with braille screen input in away mode.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 9 Oct 2015, at 14:50, Christopher-Mark Gilland
<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm not using a braille display or input keyboard. This is
specifically on the braille input rotor setting, which I'm referring to.
When I reach an edit field, and I turn the rotor to braille input, I
am using contracted braille, not 6 dot, by the way. I'm noticing that it's
reversed, when in screen away mode from how things would be on a standard
braille note taker or Perkins. You know how normally your left hand does dots
1 2 and 3, and your right hand does 4 5 and 6? Well, it has things aligned now
oppisit. So on my left hand, I have 4 5 and 6, then my right hand has 1 2 and
3. so horizontally, each row normally on a perkins would go:
1 4
2 5
3 6.
In the case of my IPhone 6S, it's going:
4 1
5 2
6 3.
This means I have to turn everything I type backwards.
No? thank you! Is there a way to fix this?
Chris.
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