Wow, Alan! Thanks for all the time and detail you are putting in to helping the community get to use the Fleksy keyboard! Much appreciated! Harry
> On 20 Jan 2016, at 22:27, Alan Lemly <[email protected]> wrote: > > Christina, > > Unfortunately, those of us who learned the original Fleksy app later renamed > Fleksy VO have to adjust our thinking somewhat to get comfortable with the > Fleksy Keyboard. I think you should keep trying because I'm becoming more > convinced that we can be productive with this keyboard. > > I'll address each of your issues in a numbered list. > > 1. If you're typing with the Fleksy spacebar keyboard, the button at the > bottom leftmost position is the numbers button labeled with a 123 and > touching it once will switch the keyboard from letters to numbers and back > again. When numbers are displayed, this key becomes a letters keyboard key > labeled ABC. While numbers are still displayed, pressing the shift key which > is immediately above the numbers/letters button will open the symbols > keyboard. I think this behavior is the same as with the iOS standard > keyboard. > > 2. The minimal Fleksy keyboard has a shift button at the bottom leftmost > position and a backspace button at the bottom rightmost position and these > keys were not present in the original Fleksy app. Note that Fleksy/VO > sometimes doesn't announce the backspace key as you move slowly around the > keyboard doing manual input but will simply state the key erased when the > backspace is executed. I also inadvertently hit both the shift and backspace > keys when typing with the minimal Fleksy keyboard and think it's just going > to take additional practice to unlearn how we typed with the original Fleksy > in order to get good with this new one. > > 3. When using the minimal keyboard, a quick single finger swipe right on the > shift key in the bottom leftmost position should switch between the letters > and numbers keyboards. When in the numbers keyboard, a quick single finger > swipe down should switch between the numbers and symbols keyboards. > Sometimes the keyboard loaded is inconsistent so you might have to keep > swiping right until you get to the one you want. Fleksy/VO has been > consistently identifying the loaded keyboard for me although sometimes it > doesn't immediately switch back to letters from numbers. Another point is if > you do a quick single finger swipe left on the backspace key located at the > bottom rightmost position of the minimal keyboard, your Emoji keyboard > should open. If it does, the bottom leftmost key on it should return you to > the letters keyboard when you double tap it. Also note that the input of > emoji symbols works a bit differently with the Fleksy keyboard than with the > standard iOS keyboard using touch typing. With Fleksy, you can swipe around > on the various emoji keys and lift to hear them announced without their > actually being entered. It takes a single finger double tap to record the > emoji which has focus or a split tap to do so. I actually like this behavior > better than how the iOS keyboard does it. > > 4. You've identified another one of the Fleksy keyboard bugs or VoiceOver > inconsistencies as I call them. When doing manual input slowly one letter at > a time as we often do with a new word or a proper name, the Fleksy keyboard > more times than not will announce it as a capital letter regardless if you > have your settings to identify case correctly as it sounds like you do. The > good news is that Fleksy is entering the correct case even if it is > announcing it incorrectly and we're just going too have to get used to this > anomaly. Fleksy also consistently capitalizes the first letter of a word in > a new sentence provided this setting is turned on. > > 5. Fleksy should get better at guessing your words the more you use it and I > also urge you to often add the words not identified correctly to your Fleksy > dictionary via a single finger swipe up after input. The more complete your > Fleksy dictionary, the better it will be at guessing the correct word. > > 6. If you've turned off the setting to show accented versions of all > letters, this should help avoid that issue as you do manual input. > Unfortunately, the letter e as well as a couple of others have accented > versions which will pop up if you linger on these keys while doing manual > input. All I can offer here is to develop a procedure to watch out for this > and to use your single finger swipe left to delete an erroneous entry often. > And this also happens to me quite often too. > > Try not to get discouraged but continue to practice with the Fleksy > keyboard. Also, anyone running into problems should post them here so we can > develop the documented methodology to make this keyboard work for us. > > Alan Lemly > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Christina C. > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 1:15 PM > To: 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone > Subject: Problems with Fleksy number/symbols layout > > Hi, > > I am having all kinds of problems with the Fleksy third party keyboard app. > I really don't know why I am bothering. I guess it's because I loved loved > loved the stand alone Fleksy keyboard and I so badly want to experience that > same ease of typing. > > When I am trying to touch type in Fleksy, I keep engaging the numbers and > symbols layout. This is highly frustrating because I keep doing it even in > minimal mode layout and I don't even know how I am making it happen. Then I > can't figure out how to get back to the letter layout. Also, voice Over > announces each letter that I type as a capital letter no matter what. It's > frustrating because I can't figure out if I accidentally hit the shift > button or not. I keep having to check and see if shift is selected or not. I > also made sure that in settings the keyboard will reflect uppercase and > lowercase letters. Also, how do I avoid hitting the shift or delete key. The > shift key was never a factor with the stand alone fleksy keyboard. I still > cannot type one complete sentence in a reasonable amount of time. I am > significantly slower on the Fleksy keyboard than on the native iOS keyboard. > Fleksy rarely guesses my words correctly so I must be way way off. Fleksy > was 90% accurate at guessing what I wanted to type in the Fleksy stand > alone app. Also, when I try to feel my way around the keyboard and lift my > finger off of the screen to type a letter I get the letters with accents > even though I have this turned off in the settings. > > Christina > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > 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. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://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 V iPhone list. > > 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. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://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 V iPhone list. 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