Greetings and Happy Holidays!
My name is Caleb, and I'm one of the developers of a new iPhone app
called BrailleTouch. BrailleTouch allows you to type using braille on
your touchscreen, and is based on the standard six key braille keyboard.
We are excited to announce that BrailleTouch will be on the App Store by
the end of January! We hope that you will like BrailleTouch and find it
useful. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have, and I've
included some more information about the app below.
With BrailleTouch, you can send text messages, emails, and tweets from
the touchscreen braille keyboard. You can also copy text you type in
braille to the clipboard and paste it into other apps on your iPhone.
There is a free version of BrailleTouch, so you can try it before you
buy it. The free version lets you type in braille and hear the text you
entered. Many braille instructors have told us that they would like to
use BrailleTouch as a teaching tool, which the free version will
support. Additional features are available as In App Purchases. The
Messaging Upgrade allows you to send text messages, emails, and tweets
from the touchscreen braille keyboard. The Clipboard Upgrade allows you
to copy text from the touchscreen braille keyboard and paste it into
other apps on your iPhone.
BrailleTouch is based on research conducted at Georgia Tech in Atlanta,
Georgia, USA, where I am a graduate student. My colleagues and I tested
the software with eleven volunteers who are blind. We found that people
who knew the standard Perkins braille keyboard were able to master
BrailleTouch within an hour of practice and type at an average of 23
words per minute using Grade 1 braille. We received such positive
feedback that we were inspired to take this research out of the
laboratory and release BrailleTouch to the public. We hope this software
will provide a helpful alternative to the VoiceOver split tap keyboard,
and that it will help improve the mobile computing experience for people
in the blind community who use an iPhone.
BrailleTouch is fully compatible with VoiceOver. It works on the iPhone
3GS through the iPhone 5, iPod touch models since the 3rd generation,
and requires iOS 5.0 or a later operating system. BrailleTouch is only
for the iPhone and iPod touch, and is not supported on the iPad. The
first release is based on North American English Grade 1 Uncontracted
Braille. You can choose to hear speech feedback for each character you
type, each word you type, or both.
More information about BrailleTouch is available on our website:
http://brailletouchapp.com/
The website includes a User Guide and Frequently Asked Questions. You
can also sign up for our email list, and we will notify you when we have
an exact release date in January for the app.
We are also on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/brailletouch
With the free version of BrailleTouch, you can try out the touchscreen
braille keyboard and hear the text that you typed read back to you. The
Messaging Upgrade allows you to send text messages, emails, and tweets,
and costs US$9.99. The Clipboard Upgrade allows you to copy text from
the braille keyboard to paste into other apps, and costs US$9.99. You
must have the Messaging Upgrade first before you can get the Clipboard
Upgrade.
I am happy to answer any questions you may have. We are very excited
about the upcoming release of BrailleTouch on the App Store. I hope that
you will like BrailleTouch and find it useful.
Best wishes and happy holidays,
Caleb
The BrailleTouch Team
http://brailletouchapp.com/
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