Do you mean direct touch typing?

Sorry, I don't get your point at all.  With touch typing, you touch the 
letters, but you don't slide around the screen.  also, I don't see slide typing 
as a sighted thing.
Cheers,
Donna


> On Sep 28, 2019, at 2:04 PM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries 
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>   Let me put it to you this way. What is the difference between touch typing 
> and slide to type?
> 
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> On 9/28/2019 10:25 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote:
>> I don't see how you figure that.
>> Donna
>>> On Sep 28, 2019, at 11:28 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries 
>>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>   This slide to type sounds exactly like touch typing. So the slide to type 
>>> is the sighted version.
>>> 
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>>> On 9/28/2019 5:04 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote:
>>>> We have always had different ways of typing on the iPhone, standard typing 
>>>> versus touch typing and so on..  I think Apple consistently strives to 
>>>> make typing on the device as fast and easy as possible.  What that looks 
>>>> like will be different for different people.  If you don't like the slide 
>>>> typing, then by all means turn it off.  I would just encourage folks to 
>>>> spend some time trying it out, before just dismissing it out of hand.  It 
>>>> will take time to get used to.  But if people practice with it, I suspect 
>>>> some of you will end up liking it quite a lot.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Donna
>>>>> On Sep 28, 2019, at 12:05 AM, d.prater via MacVisionaries 
>>>>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com 
>>>>> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> That's like saying we should go back to DOS because we managed fine 
>>>>> without it for a decade or two. New features will come, we should be 
>>>>> pretty glad that Apple even gives us the chance to turn them off or even 
>>>>> configure them to what we need, because users of other platforms... 
>>>>> aren't so lucky, lol.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Devin Prater
>>>>> Assistive Technology Instructor
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 8:29 PM -0500, "'E.T.' via MacVisionaries" 
>>>>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com 
>>>>> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>         Well Donna we managed quite well without all that noise for years,
>>>>>    didn't we? What we had in iOS 12 was just fine. Now I need to stumble
>>>>>    through that long list and turn most of them off.
>>>>> 
>>>>>      From E.T.'s Keyboard...
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>>>>>    Many believe that we have been visited
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>>>>>    On 9/27/2019 6:20 PM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote:
>>>>>    > I think that slide typing is probably a good thing for sighted 
>>>>> users.  For me anyway, what makes it distracting is all the input you get 
>>>>> while sliding your finger around.  But I suppose VO has to give you that 
>>>>> feedback, otherwise, you wouldn't know if it was on the right track or 
>>>>> not.  There's no denying that the slide typing takes some getting used 
>>>>> to--you have to learn to filter out the noise--but I do find I'm liking 
>>>>> it more and more with practice.
>>>>>    > Cheers,
>>>>>    > Donna
>>>>>    >     >     >> On Sep 27, 2019, at 6:14 PM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries  
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>    >>
>>>>>    >>    Yup, iOS 13 gave us a couple annoying things. One it thinks we 
>>>>> need much more help when entering text. It is the same with a braille 
>>>>> display. Would to get this behavior changed.
>>>>>    >>
>>>>>    >>    The other one is overactive haptics. It's called Voiceover 
>>>>> Haptic Feedback. You can turn this off completely, or choose what items 
>>>>> to turn off individually. Go to Settings, Accessibility, Voiceover, Audio.
>>>>>    >>
>>>>>    >>  From E.T.'s Keyboard...
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>>>>>    >> On 9/27/2019 3:48 PM, Petrus Tuerlings wrote:
>>>>>    >>> Hi all,
>>>>>    >>> Now that I’ve finally updated to 13.1.1 I can’t type in my 
>>>>> messages app on the phone without a lot of unwanted input. If I hold my 
>>>>> finger on a letter for a couple of seconds it will suddenly insert lots 
>>>>> of  unwanted characters. I have the typing mode set too touch typing as 
>>>>> I’ve always had it, and I know there must be a setting I can change 
>>>>> somewhere to fix this. Oh, I’m using the virtual keyboard not a bluetooth 
>>>>> one.
>>>>>    >>> Oh, and my phone does vibrate a lot more while I’m flicking around 
>>>>> the screen and haven’t worked out where to go to fix that either.
>>>>>    >>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>>    >>> Sent from Petrus' MacBook
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