Thanks for your email, Arnold.
We wish that Apple would allow alternative keyboard apps for iOS, and I
suspect that other developers such as Fleksy do as well. We have built
an in-house version of BrailleTouch for Android phones. Android will
allow alternative keyboards, so BrailleTouch would pop up for any text
field in any app instead of the standard mini-QWERTY keyboard. It works
very well, and even supports Grade 2 braille!
Unfortunately, the Android accessibility layer, Explore by Touch (which
is comparable to VoiceOver), is not compatible with multi-touch input.
BrailleTouch relies on multi-touch input to make a braille keyboard work
on a touchscreen. We have spoken with the engineer at Google who wrote
Explore by Touch for Android. He is great, and was very helpful and
supportive. We are excited about the potential to release BrailleTouch
as an alternative keyboard for Android phones, pending a future version
of Android where Explore by Touch is compatible with BrailleTouch and
multi-touch input.
Best wishes,
Caleb
http://brailletouchapp.com/
On 1/6/2013 9:54 PM, Arnold Schmidt wrote:
If this be the case, that is too bad. I understand that Apple won't
let these alternative input methods be substituted for the apple
keyboard on their phones. Let us hope (wish?) Apple would offer the
developers of Flexy and BrailleTouch a multi-digit figure for their
apps and include them as alternative input methods in the future.
Arnold Schmidt
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Sieghard Weitzel <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, January 06, 2013 9:37 PM
*Subject:* RE: Editing Text With Braille Touch
Hi Arnold,
I am not the developer, but I am 99.99% sure that you will first
have to either send your text to mail or messages or copy it to
the clipboard and then put it into an app like Notes, Mail or any
other app which is basically a text editor. This is the same in
Fleksy, both these apps are basically keyboard apps which offer an
alternative input method only.
Regards,
Sieghard
*From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
*On Behalf Of *Arnold Schmidt
*Sent:* Sunday, January 06, 2013 6:25 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Editing Text With Braille Touch
I have listened to the podcast, looked through the topics list in
the manual, and the faq, and did not find an answer to the
following. If I have written several lines and want to edit them,
can I do this within BrailleTouch, or do I have to paste it into
whatever I am sending and then change it? I assume that what I am
writing appears in the center of the screen, between the two rows
of dots, so I am hoping I perhaps can use the rotor and edit
within BrailleTouch itself, or there is some other way to edit text.
I plan to purchase this app, even if you answer my question no.
Thank you very much for producing it.
Arnold Schmidt
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