There are a couple reasons I prefer the iPad for the forms. First, it is quite a large form. On my iPhone 7, VO has difficulty tracking table cells after page 1. On my iPad pro, this is not a problem.
Second, on the iPad, I can write in 8-dot computer braille. Computer braille is the closest we have to print's a separate symbol for each alphanumeric symbol. As the blind are a very low incidence population at approximately 0.5% of the population, and totally blind are even lower incidence at 0.1% of the population, it is essential that we do, as much as possible, to be the same or similar to our sighted colleagues. In 8-dot braille, upper case and lower case letters, numbers, and punctuation symbols are all different dot patterns. This forces us to spell, capitalize, and so forth, the same as everybody else. Contracted braille was created to save space because braille is so large. However, braille shorthand causes most blind people, myself included, to become horrible spellers. Besides, sighted people are not forced to learn shorthand. Finally, 8-dot braille (ASCII) symbology is how the computer stores all written text, so the size is no longer an issue. Kind regards, David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +61 488 988 936 Sent from my iPhone > On 1 Oct 2017, at 22:22, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > David, I'm curious why you use the iPad for this. The newer iPhones are quite > powerful, and also run the iWork apps. Do you find the larger screen more > comfortable? Does it display things your phone doesn't? I'm constantly > tempted by the urge to purchase an iPad of some kind, but have never seen the > benefit over my iPhone 7. Sounds like you prefer the iPad, though, and I'm > very interested to know why. Thanks. > > -- > Alex Hall > > > > >> On Oct 1, 2017, at 00:42, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I use an iPad Pro 10.5. I do not usually use a bluetooth keyboard (either >> braille or QWERTY). Instead, I use Braille Screen Input. I have a few forms >> which work originally created in MS Word. These forms have lots of graphics, >> so Jaws does not work with them. However, we converted the forms into table >> format (which Jaws still does not work very well with), and I then imported >> them into the iPad Pro Pages. iOS works well with the forms. I double-tap on >> the table cell a couple times to highlight, then open the cell for editing. >> I then turn the rotor to Braille Screen Input and enter the info for the >> cell. I then turn the rotor away from BSI and right flick to the next cell >> which has the next info being sought. Another right flick to the next blank >> cell and a few double-taps to highlight and activate the cell. The method >> works extremely well. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >> Email: [email protected] >> Mobile: +61 488 988 936 >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On 1 Oct 2017, at 07:28, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> I have an iPad mini 2, which has just about become slow enough to drive me >>> crazy. So I am either going to have to bite the bullet and go for a >>> full-size iPad or just give up the whole notion of having two Apple >>> devices. I know that there is someone better keyboard support in iOS 11, >>> which could make it possible to use an iPad more efficiently as a word >>> processor, since you can now do things like read the current line and the >>> current word etc. I have never liked all the extra real estate on the >>> larger iPad. But I do have a Bluetooth keyboard now that can be connected >>> to more than one device, and I was messing around this morning with my iPad >>> mini and this keyboard. That's when the speed thing really got to me. But >>> there are other things I think I still don't understand, such as how to get >>> from the message list in mail to the full text of the message and back >>> again efficiently using a Bluetooth keyboard. What do those of you who use >>> The full sized iPad do with them? Do you use a Bluetooth keyboard? 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