Actually, according to the user guide, it appears to me that the default layout will be just like a Perkins brailler. You hold the phone in landscape mode with the screen away from you. Then your left index finger will be dot 1, left middle dot 2, and the finger next to your pinky will be dot 3. The right hand would be the same: dot 4 is your right index finger; dot 5 is your right middle finger; dot 6 is the finger next to your right pinky. This would be exactly like a Perkins braille writer. Flipping dots 1 and 3 and flipping dots 4 and 6, if I'm picturing this crrectly, would put dots 1 and 4 under your fingers next to your pinkys. So in the flipped setting, a c would be at the two far ends of your two-hand position while in the normal default setting the letter c would be the two center points of your two-hand position. The default setting should be immediately comfortable for those of us who use a Perkins brailler; if I am picturing this correctly, I would find the flipped keyboard confusing but I imagine that depends on what you use for writing. -- Cheryl
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Dec 31, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Georgina Joyce <r...@o2.co.uk> wrote: > Hello, > > If I understand it right. The phone is held to provide a more like stainsby / > shorthand machine formation rather than a perkins? As with the stainsby, > could the keys be reversed? For those used to writing braille on a frame or > the standard stainsby? i.e. The letter "a" dot 1 generated by the index > finger of the right or left hand? Or is the orientation dots 1 & 4 are > generated by the third finger of each hand? > > What version of grade 1 is the app going to use? Is it computer braille thus > numbers are lower case letters? Or do you need to use the number sign? Is the > full stop 2 & 5 6 or 4 6? Or will this be switchable upon release? > > Thanks. > > Gena > > > > On 30/12/2012 06:10, BrailleTouch wrote: >> Hi Richard, >> >> Thanks for your post. There is a free version of BrailleTouch. We hope this >> will be useful for braille instructors, as well as for people who want to >> try the app out. You do not have to buy an upgrade to use it with your >> students. >> >> The free version goes beyond the research prototype we developed at Georgia >> Tech, which many braille instructors contacted us about. It will read back >> characters, words, or both as you type. It will also speak the full >> sentence that you typed in braille. I hope you will find this useful with >> your students. >> >> Best, >> Caleb >> http://brailletouchapp.com/ >> >> >> On Saturday, December 29, 2012 5:29:30 PM UTC-5, Richard Turner wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> Do you have prices for the various upgrades yet? >>> I am a braille instructor and have been looking forward to when this would >>> be released. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Richard >>> >>> >>> >> > > -- > "If you want someone who thinks outside the box, hire someone who lives > outside the box" Barbara Otto > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
