Grade II would be awsome!!!
Sent from my mac Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Jan 31, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Rachel Feinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris and Alex, > > I was having endless amounts of trouble with the Braille Touch app, until > you, Chris, described how you were holding it. Your hands don't go > side-by-side, as they would on a Perkins-style keyboard. They face each > other. Which is better than typing in rows, as in TypeinBraille, but not what > we as Perkins-style braille users are used to. > In any event, thank you, in spite of your frustration, for helping me finally > understand how to type with it. And perhaps, Grade II input will be coming > soon. > Rachel > On Jan 31, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry you are having a hard time with it, but I find it quite accurate and >> easy to use. However, I really don't like the way they say to hold the >> phone; instead, I do this: >> press the back of the phone to your body, pinching the sides between your >> thumbs and pinkies. Then gently pull back with your arms to hold it in >> place, and your primary six fingers are left free to type quite easily. >> You'll probably look kind of stupid in that position, but I figure if it >> works, it works, and I can't find a more secure way to type with this app >> when a flat surface is not available. >> >> Also, I find the app is indeed forgiving as to finger placement. I tend to >> have my index finger furthest back, my middle finger furthest forward, and >> my ring finger somewhere in the middle, yet I am able to get very consistent >> results now that I've practiced some and discovered the hand position I >> described above. I hope you can get this working, as it is a great app once >> you get used to how to use it. >> On Jan 31, 2013, at 4:28 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> OK, um... this is just my thought, ok, take it or leave it. First of all, >>> there is plenty of screen real estate on even an IPhone 4 to not have to >>> put each section of the braille dots virtically. They say hold the phone >>> with you palms facing each other. I did this. I had a good grip of my >>> phone as well. When I placed my fingers on the screen, I'm getting very! >>> undesired results. This isn't a matter of go to advanced settings and flip >>> dots 1 and 3, 4 and 6. This is more a matter it just isn't accurate and >>> not very forgiving. I don't really have very big hands either. So my two >>> palms facing each other, my two thumbs basically resting on the back of the >>> ;hone oppisit side from the screen, home button on my right as I have >>> portrait mode locked. now, I tapped once to activate the keyboard. now, I >>> find my hands are sideways. rather than dots 1 2 and 3 going like a >>> perkins, where 1 is on the right 2 to the left of that, and 3 to the right >>> of that, it looks more like the braille literal letter l. so 1 on bottom, >>> 2 in the middle, and 3 on top. Same on the right side of the screen with 4 >>> 5 and 6, and visually the blue braille dots even are aligned virtically, >>> across each side of the screen. That's really dumb in my book. Going >>> totally in landscape mode, when holding the phone as I said a second ago, >>> even without the extra row of real estate I get with my 5, even on my old >>> IPhone 4S, I still have enough room to type a full braille cell with all my >>> fingers going left to right, from left to right going, 3 2 1, 4 5 6. So, >>> why the hell make each half of the cell align itself virtically? That just >>> seems a bit well... I was gonna say idiotic, but I think I'll be nice >>> instead and just say... awkward. Second of all, the docs say you don't >>> have to line right up with those braille dots on the screen as it's very >>> forgiving. Not for me? it's not. I tried typing the letter h, 1 2, and 5. >>> sometimes it thinks I want an r, which is 1 2 3 5. some times it thinks I >>> want an exclaimation mark which is 2 3 5. one time it thought I wanted a >>> question mark, which is 2 3 6. So, yeah, ok, am I missing something, or is >>> this app really just that stupidly inaccurate. Surely damn well hope the >>> former as this is ridiculous! I can't figure out what on earth I may be >>> doing wrong. I'm following the docs to an absolute T! >>> >>> Chris. >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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