Those are left/right swipes, use the second finger I think. The user guide and FAQ are both on the site so we can get up to speed with the details in advance. I hope it is up to speed with VO commands like that!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Georgina Joyce" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 11:42 PM Subject: Re: Introducing BrailleTouch - an iPhone app for typing in braille on your touchscreen Hello, I'm sure it will be a lot clearer when the app is installed on the phone. I've got quite slim fingers and holding the phone to align them in perkins formation doesn't work as the phone isn't long enough. Coincidently, what fingers do the forward and backward spaces? Thanks. Gena On 31/12/2012 22:48, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > 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 ke yboard confusing but I imagine that depends on what you use for writing. > -- "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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
