Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips
Looks like we'll stick to mBraille after all. - Original Message - From: Paul Henrichsen p...@pfhj.org To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:12 PM Subject: Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips It doesn't seem to work on the iPad mini. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 25, 2015, at 12:37 AM, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: Ok, not found the bit about paying and pricing yet. InApp purchases, in the plural I note, worries me a bit. I like to know up front and indeed pay up front if payment is necessary. What bit is free and what bits are paid for, and of course, How Much?! Thanks much, and tell us more as you use it. Provide the appstore link too if you like, i've not seen that either. RobH. - Original Message - From: Donna merma...@bellsouth.net To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 11:14 PM Subject: Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips The app is Free with in app purchases. I have downloaded it but had to charge my iPad before giving the app a try. Donna On Jan 24, 2015, at 2:47 PM, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: A great headsup for the app, but an absolute swine to read with the constant repetition of that very verbose link. I agree something needed to be done for iPad and hitting the dots, it's not something I've managed to do with any real success. So, if anyone buys it, let us know how you fair with it. Thanks, RobH. - Original Message - From: christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com To: Viphone viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 7:16 PM Subject: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/2015/01/24/ipad-app-brings-braille-keyboard-to-blind-users-fingertips/by MacDailyNews http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]The proliferation of touchscreen technology may have revolutionized mobile computer input for most everyone, but there’s one sector of the population that isn’t exactly feeling the pinch, the tap, or the swipe: the blind, Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. It’s nearly impossible to interact with elements on a totally smooth screen if you can’t see. iBrailler Notes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody, which began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and is now available as a stand-alone app for iOS, aims to offer blind and vision-impaired iPad users an easy way to type Braille notes and perform basic word processing on a touchscreen, Bonnington reports. iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody isn’t the first to undertake this commercially... [But] what iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody does differently is position its touch keyboard underneath the user’s fingertips, no matter where they set them on the iPad’s slick glass display. Every time you lift and readjust your hands on the screen, the keyboard does too. The keyboard uses Braille English Grade 1, Grade 2, and Six-Dot Computer Braille, and features built-in gestures for tasks like cutting, copying, and pasting text. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post
Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips
Ok, good, will reserve further judgement. I do use an iMini, so that is what I'm paying most attention to. - Original Message - From: christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 7:50 AM Subject: Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips It does. What problems are you having? I have it here on my iPad Mini 2 and it works fine. Even the website, www.ibrailler.com claims it works on the iPad Mini which it does at my end. On 25 Jan 2015, at 23:12, Paul Henrichsen p...@pfhj.org wrote: It doesn't seem to work on the iPad mini. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 25, 2015, at 12:37 AM, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: Ok, not found the bit about paying and pricing yet. InApp purchases, in the plural I note, worries me a bit. I like to know up front and indeed pay up front if payment is necessary. What bit is free and what bits are paid for, and of course, How Much?! Thanks much, and tell us more as you use it. Provide the appstore link too if you like, i've not seen that either. RobH. - Original Message - From: Donna merma...@bellsouth.net To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 11:14 PM Subject: Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips The app is Free with in app purchases. I have downloaded it but had to charge my iPad before giving the app a try. Donna On Jan 24, 2015, at 2:47 PM, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: A great headsup for the app, but an absolute swine to read with the constant repetition of that very verbose link. I agree something needed to be done for iPad and hitting the dots, it's not something I've managed to do with any real success. So, if anyone buys it, let us know how you fair with it. Thanks, RobH. - Original Message - From: christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com To: Viphone viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 7:16 PM Subject: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/2015/01/24/ipad-app-brings-braille-keyboard-to-blind-users-fingertips/by MacDailyNews http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]The proliferation of touchscreen technology may have revolutionized mobile computer input for most everyone, but there’s one sector of the population that isn’t exactly feeling the pinch, the tap, or the swipe: the blind, Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. It’s nearly impossible to interact with elements on a totally smooth screen if you can’t see. iBrailler Notes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody, which began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and is now available as a stand-alone app for iOS, aims to offer blind and vision-impaired iPad users an easy way to type Braille notes and perform basic word processing on a touchscreen, Bonnington reports. iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody isn’t the first to undertake this commercially... [But] what iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody does differently is position its touch keyboard underneath the user’s fingertips, no matter where they set them on the iPad’s slick glass display. Every time you lift and readjust your hands on the screen, the keyboard does too. The keyboard uses Braille English Grade 1, Grade 2, and Six-Dot Computer Braille, and features built-in gestures for tasks like cutting, copying, and pasting text. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list
Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips
Ok, not found the bit about paying and pricing yet. InApp purchases, in the plural I note, worries me a bit. I like to know up front and indeed pay up front if payment is necessary. What bit is free and what bits are paid for, and of course, How Much?! Thanks much, and tell us more as you use it. Provide the appstore link too if you like, i've not seen that either. RobH. - Original Message - From: Donna merma...@bellsouth.net To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 11:14 PM Subject: Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips The app is Free with in app purchases. I have downloaded it but had to charge my iPad before giving the app a try. Donna On Jan 24, 2015, at 2:47 PM, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: A great headsup for the app, but an absolute swine to read with the constant repetition of that very verbose link. I agree something needed to be done for iPad and hitting the dots, it's not something I've managed to do with any real success. So, if anyone buys it, let us know how you fair with it. Thanks, RobH. - Original Message - From: christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com To: Viphone viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 7:16 PM Subject: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/2015/01/24/ipad-app-brings-braille-keyboard-to-blind-users-fingertips/by MacDailyNews http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]The proliferation of touchscreen technology may have revolutionized mobile computer input for most everyone, but there’s one sector of the population that isn’t exactly feeling the pinch, the tap, or the swipe: the blind, Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. It’s nearly impossible to interact with elements on a totally smooth screen if you can’t see. iBrailler Notes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody, which began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and is now available as a stand-alone app for iOS, aims to offer blind and vision-impaired iPad users an easy way to type Braille notes and perform basic word processing on a touchscreen, Bonnington reports. iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody isn’t the first to undertake this commercially... [But] what iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody does differently is position its touch keyboard underneath the user’s fingertips, no matter where they set them on the iPad’s slick glass display. Every time you lift and readjust your hands on the screen, the keyboard does too. The keyboard uses Braille English Grade 1, Grade 2, and Six-Dot Computer Braille, and features built-in gestures for tasks like cutting, copying, and pasting text. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you
Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips
It doesn't seem to work on the iPad mini. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 25, 2015, at 12:37 AM, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: Ok, not found the bit about paying and pricing yet. InApp purchases, in the plural I note, worries me a bit. I like to know up front and indeed pay up front if payment is necessary. What bit is free and what bits are paid for, and of course, How Much?! Thanks much, and tell us more as you use it. Provide the appstore link too if you like, i've not seen that either. RobH. - Original Message - From: Donna merma...@bellsouth.net To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 11:14 PM Subject: Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips The app is Free with in app purchases. I have downloaded it but had to charge my iPad before giving the app a try. Donna On Jan 24, 2015, at 2:47 PM, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: A great headsup for the app, but an absolute swine to read with the constant repetition of that very verbose link. I agree something needed to be done for iPad and hitting the dots, it's not something I've managed to do with any real success. So, if anyone buys it, let us know how you fair with it. Thanks, RobH. - Original Message - From: christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com To: Viphone viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 7:16 PM Subject: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/2015/01/24/ipad-app-brings-braille-keyboard-to-blind-users-fingertips/by MacDailyNews http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]The proliferation of touchscreen technology may have revolutionized mobile computer input for most everyone, but there’s one sector of the population that isn’t exactly feeling the pinch, the tap, or the swipe: the blind, Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. It’s nearly impossible to interact with elements on a totally smooth screen if you can’t see. iBrailler Notes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody, which began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and is now available as a stand-alone app for iOS, aims to offer blind and vision-impaired iPad users an easy way to type Braille notes and perform basic word processing on a touchscreen, Bonnington reports. iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody isn’t the first to undertake this commercially... [But] what iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody does differently is position its touch keyboard underneath the user’s fingertips, no matter where they set them on the iPad’s slick glass display. Every time you lift and readjust your hands on the screen, the keyboard does too. The keyboard uses Braille English Grade 1, Grade 2, and Six-Dot Computer Braille, and features built-in gestures for tasks like cutting, copying, and pasting text. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all
Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips
It does. What problems are you having? I have it here on my iPad Mini 2 and it works fine. Even the website, www.ibrailler.com claims it works on the iPad Mini which it does at my end. On 25 Jan 2015, at 23:12, Paul Henrichsen p...@pfhj.org wrote: It doesn't seem to work on the iPad mini. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 25, 2015, at 12:37 AM, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: Ok, not found the bit about paying and pricing yet. InApp purchases, in the plural I note, worries me a bit. I like to know up front and indeed pay up front if payment is necessary. What bit is free and what bits are paid for, and of course, How Much?! Thanks much, and tell us more as you use it. Provide the appstore link too if you like, i've not seen that either. RobH. - Original Message - From: Donna merma...@bellsouth.net To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 11:14 PM Subject: Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips The app is Free with in app purchases. I have downloaded it but had to charge my iPad before giving the app a try. Donna On Jan 24, 2015, at 2:47 PM, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: A great headsup for the app, but an absolute swine to read with the constant repetition of that very verbose link. I agree something needed to be done for iPad and hitting the dots, it's not something I've managed to do with any real success. So, if anyone buys it, let us know how you fair with it. Thanks, RobH. - Original Message - From: christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com To: Viphone viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 7:16 PM Subject: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/2015/01/24/ipad-app-brings-braille-keyboard-to-blind-users-fingertips/by MacDailyNews http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]The proliferation of touchscreen technology may have revolutionized mobile computer input for most everyone, but there’s one sector of the population that isn’t exactly feeling the pinch, the tap, or the swipe: the blind, Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. It’s nearly impossible to interact with elements on a totally smooth screen if you can’t see. iBrailler Notes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody, which began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and is now available as a stand-alone app for iOS, aims to offer blind and vision-impaired iPad users an easy way to type Braille notes and perform basic word processing on a touchscreen, Bonnington reports. iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody isn’t the first to undertake this commercially... [But] what iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody does differently is position its touch keyboard underneath the user’s fingertips, no matter where they set them on the iPad’s slick glass display. Every time you lift and readjust your hands on the screen, the keyboard does too. The keyboard uses Braille English Grade 1, Grade 2, and Six-Dot Computer Braille, and features built-in gestures for tasks like cutting, copying, and pasting text. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr
Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips
This is almost a reason to go get an iPad. I have never been a fan of all that extra space, but if this app uses it, why not? Frustrated with your Mac, I-device, or AppleTV? New user and want quick efficient answers? Or maybe you know apple products and want to contribute? Then come join a list where questions are always answered, and we are always patient with you. Subscribe here: peel-the-apple+subscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:peel-the-apple+subscr...@googlegroups.com Short quick getting started Tutorials: http://peeltheapple.wordpress.com/ http://peeltheapple.wordpress.com/ Or just follow us on twitter https://twitter.com/PealTheApple https://twitter.com/PealTheApple And ask your question there. All are welcome! On Jan 24, 2015, at 2:16 PM, christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com wrote: http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/2015/01/24/ipad-app-brings-braille-keyboard-to-blind-users-fingertips/by MacDailyNews http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]The proliferation of touchscreen technology may have revolutionized mobile computer input for most everyone, but there’s one sector of the population that isn’t exactly feeling the pinch, the tap, or the swipe: the blind, Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. It’s nearly impossible to interact with elements on a totally smooth screen if you can’t see. iBrailler Notes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody, which began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and is now available as a stand-alone app for iOS, aims to offer blind and vision-impaired iPad users an easy way to type Braille notes and perform basic word processing on a touchscreen, Bonnington reports. iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody isn’t the first to undertake this commercially... [But] what iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody does differently is position its touch keyboard underneath the user’s fingertips, no matter where they set them on the iPad’s slick glass display. Every time you lift and readjust your hands on the screen, the keyboard does too. The keyboard uses Braille English Grade 1, Grade 2, and Six-Dot Computer Braille, and features built-in gestures for tasks like cutting, copying, and pasting text. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips
The full verson of the app cost $39.99 US dollors. So far it seems that one is limited on how many notes can be created and how the notes can be shared. I like the app. Waiting for funds to become available to purchase voicedream writer. I want to compare the 2 apps before dropping $40 into ibrailler note. Donna On Jan 25, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Paul Henrichsen p...@pfhj.org wrote: It doesn't seem to work on the iPad mini. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 25, 2015, at 12:37 AM, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: Ok, not found the bit about paying and pricing yet. InApp purchases, in the plural I note, worries me a bit. I like to know up front and indeed pay up front if payment is necessary. What bit is free and what bits are paid for, and of course, How Much?! Thanks much, and tell us more as you use it. Provide the appstore link too if you like, i've not seen that either. RobH. - Original Message - From: Donna merma...@bellsouth.net To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 11:14 PM Subject: Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips The app is Free with in app purchases. I have downloaded it but had to charge my iPad before giving the app a try. Donna On Jan 24, 2015, at 2:47 PM, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: A great headsup for the app, but an absolute swine to read with the constant repetition of that very verbose link. I agree something needed to be done for iPad and hitting the dots, it's not something I've managed to do with any real success. So, if anyone buys it, let us know how you fair with it. Thanks, RobH. - Original Message - From: christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com To: Viphone viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 7:16 PM Subject: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/2015/01/24/ipad-app-brings-braille-keyboard-to-blind-users-fingertips/by MacDailyNews http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]The proliferation of touchscreen technology may have revolutionized mobile computer input for most everyone, but there’s one sector of the population that isn’t exactly feeling the pinch, the tap, or the swipe: the blind, Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. It’s nearly impossible to interact with elements on a totally smooth screen if you can’t see. iBrailler Notes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody, which began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and is now available as a stand-alone app for iOS, aims to offer blind and vision-impaired iPad users an easy way to type Braille notes and perform basic word processing on a touchscreen, Bonnington reports. iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody isn’t the first to undertake this commercially... [But] what iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody does differently is position its touch keyboard underneath the user’s fingertips, no matter where they set them on the iPad’s slick glass display. Every time you lift and readjust your hands on the screen, the keyboard does too. The keyboard uses Braille English Grade 1, Grade 2, and Six-Dot Computer Braille, and features built-in gestures for tasks like cutting, copying, and pasting text. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed
Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips
Gotta love bad journalism. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 24, 2015, at 1:16 PM, christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com wrote: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips by MacDailyNews [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]The proliferation of touchscreen technology may have revolutionized mobile computer input for most everyone, but there’s one sector of the population that isn’t exactly feeling the pinch, the tap, or the swipe: the blind, Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. It’s nearly impossible to interact with elements on a totally smooth screen if you can’t see. iBrailler Notes, which began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and is now available as a stand-alone app for iOS, aims to offer blind and vision-impaired iPad users an easy way to type Braille notes and perform basic word processing on a touchscreen, Bonnington reports. iBrailler isn’t the first to undertake this commercially... [But] what iBrailler does differently is position its touch keyboard underneath the user’s fingertips, no matter where they set them on the iPad’s slick glass display. Every time you lift and readjust your hands on the screen, the keyboard does too. The keyboard uses Braille English Grade 1, Grade 2, and Six-Dot Computer Braille, and features built-in gestures for tasks like cutting, copying, and pasting text. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips
A great headsup for the app, but an absolute swine to read with the constant repetition of that very verbose link. I agree something needed to be done for iPad and hitting the dots, it's not something I've managed to do with any real success. So, if anyone buys it, let us know how you fair with it. Thanks, RobH. - Original Message - From: christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com To: Viphone viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 7:16 PM Subject: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/2015/01/24/ipad-app-brings-braille-keyboard-to-blind-users-fingertips/by MacDailyNews http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]The proliferation of touchscreen technology may have revolutionized mobile computer input for most everyone, but there’s one sector of the population that isn’t exactly feeling the pinch, the tap, or the swipe: the blind, Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. It’s nearly impossible to interact with elements on a totally smooth screen if you can’t see. iBrailler Notes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody, which began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and is now available as a stand-alone app for iOS, aims to offer blind and vision-impaired iPad users an easy way to type Braille notes and perform basic word processing on a touchscreen, Bonnington reports. iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody isn’t the first to undertake this commercially... [But] what iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody does differently is position its touch keyboard underneath the user’s fingertips, no matter where they set them on the iPad’s slick glass display. Every time you lift and readjust your hands on the screen, the keyboard does too. The keyboard uses Braille English Grade 1, Grade 2, and Six-Dot Computer Braille, and features built-in gestures for tasks like cutting, copying, and pasting text. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips
The app is Free with in app purchases. I have downloaded it but had to charge my iPad before giving the app a try. Donna On Jan 24, 2015, at 2:47 PM, RobH. bobs...@googlemail.com wrote: A great headsup for the app, but an absolute swine to read with the constant repetition of that very verbose link. I agree something needed to be done for iPad and hitting the dots, it's not something I've managed to do with any real success. So, if anyone buys it, let us know how you fair with it. Thanks, RobH. - Original Message - From: christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com To: Viphone viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 7:16 PM Subject: iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/2015/01/24/ipad-app-brings-braille-keyboard-to-blind-users-fingertips/by MacDailyNews http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]The proliferation of touchscreen technology may have revolutionized mobile computer input for most everyone, but there’s one sector of the population that isn’t exactly feeling the pinch, the tap, or the swipe: the blind, Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. It’s nearly impossible to interact with elements on a totally smooth screen if you can’t see. iBrailler Notes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody, which began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and is now available as a stand-alone app for iOS, aims to offer blind and vision-impaired iPad users an easy way to type Braille notes and perform basic word processing on a touchscreen, Bonnington reports. iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody isn’t the first to undertake this commercially... [But] what iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody does differently is position its touch keyboard underneath the user’s fingertips, no matter where they set them on the iPad’s slick glass display. Every time you lift and readjust your hands on the screen, the keyboard does too. The keyboard uses Braille English Grade 1, Grade 2, and Six-Dot Computer Braille, and features built-in gestures for tasks like cutting, copying, and pasting text. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com
iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips
http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips http://macdailynews.com/2015/01/24/ipad-app-brings-braille-keyboard-to-blind-users-fingertips/by MacDailyNews http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/ [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]The proliferation of touchscreen technology may have revolutionized mobile computer input for most everyone, but there’s one sector of the population that isn’t exactly feeling the pinch, the tap, or the swipe: the blind, Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. It’s nearly impossible to interact with elements on a totally smooth screen if you can’t see. iBrailler Notes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody, which began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and is now available as a stand-alone app for iOS, aims to offer blind and vision-impaired iPad users an easy way to type Braille notes and perform basic word processing on a touchscreen, Bonnington reports. iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody isn’t the first to undertake this commercially... [But] what iBrailler https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8uo=4at=10lody does differently is position its touch keyboard underneath the user’s fingertips, no matter where they set them on the iPad’s slick glass display. Every time you lift and readjust your hands on the screen, the keyboard does too. The keyboard uses Braille English Grade 1, Grade 2, and Six-Dot Computer Braille, and features built-in gestures for tasks like cutting, copying, and pasting text. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
