I really encourage you to give MBraille a try. It is smiler to BrailleTouch, but you can text, tweet, mail, call, and much more right in the app itself by typing commands. It’s a great app once you get the typing down.
To use MBraille or BrailleTouch, hold the phone with the speaker on the right and the screen facing away from you. I usually press the phone’s back against my body and use that plus the pressure of my pinkies and thumbs to hold it in place. This provides a surprisingly sturdy platform and leaves my other six fingers free to start typing. It is very awkward at first, but once you do it for a while, you can get very good and fast. In fact, nowadays I almost never make a mistake; I use the app for a lot, from meeting notes to sending texts and tweets. The more you work on it, the better and more comfortable you will become with it. Don't give up on it yet. On Nov 8, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote: > Listers, > > My iPhone 5C had arrived yesterday, and due to your past support and the > information so devotedly published in many places by the generous users of > iDevices, I had succeeded in setting it up. What a relief and joy!!! I've had > some time today to play with it, and at the moment, the only trouble I seem > to have is to type text efficiently so that it doesn't take me for ever. I > see that some of you write fairly long messages to the group, others compose > documents in Pages etc. How on earth do you accomplish it? An external > bluetooth keyboard is not an option for me other than at home but then I have > my computer which has a qwerty keyboard. > > I had great hopes for Braille Touch app but I have just realised how > difficult it is to hold it in the way recommended and at the same time use > the fingers to produce letters. I failed miserably! also, as others had > mentioned, my right hand blocks the speaker so it is very discouraging. I had > better luck with Fleksy. I turned my phone landscape and was able to use most > of my fingers to type with a degree of accuracy provided my phone rested on > the table. > > The iPhone native keyboard is very small indeed. I tried to find where I > could change typing mode but it seems to be missing from the settings, or am > I missing something? On the iPad you can change typing mode from split tap > which I find slows me down, to touch typing which is a bit more efficient. I > know it's early days for me but answering text messages and writing short > e-mails is something I need to do fairly quickly. > > I tried Siri for the first time, and I'm [proud to say that I had managed to > send a text, place a phone-call and ask for my location. Siri couldn't always > understand me though. > > The volume up and down buttons do not seem to change the volume of Voiceover > much. Is this how it should be? > > Thanks for any tips, and thanks for your support. > > Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > 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]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
