Braille for entering the passcode to unlock the screen would be fabulous. I
can't seem to be accurate enough with handwriting.
Teresa
"We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan
On Jun 3, 2014, at 2:20 AM, RobH. <bobs...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Word prediction: That is me too, can never stand the presumption of it,
> especially if you're trying to do contrived words like some used in commerce
> or advertising and the like, plays on words. I prefer to make or correct my
> own mistakes, the only way to learn to do it right.
>
> But easy braille input would be a serious boon, even if just the simplest
> grade1, so long as it was sufficiently standard and gave access to the
> common-obscure characters - /<> and a few others we never used in ordinary
> writing at shcool, but turn up in Net text and links all the time now.
> If escape sequences get used - press this before you press that!.... - for
> it to be at least consistent; 101 different escape codes for as many
> non-alphaNumerics is an awful overhead to try and get one's head round.
> Struth, even programming code like C and Pascal had that as a basis.
> E.g: "\" meant use the next symbol literally, not try and interpret it.
> You can see, state it once, and right away you have a grasp of the whole
> extended character set.
>
> But we'll see!
>
> RobH.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Teresa Cochran" <batsfly...@me.com>
> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 9:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Accessibility Features in iOS8
>
>
> I don't like autocorrect or any sort of predictive typing, so I probably
> would turn it off if that turns out to be an option. That's just me, though.
>
> Teresa
>
> "The golden age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete graham
>
> On Jun 2, 2014, at 10:02 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
>
>> I think we all have to wait and see how efficient this Quick Type thing
>> really is and how quickly a Voiceover user can pick from the selection of
>> words presented. It' one thing for a sighted person to see 4 or 5 words at
>> one glance and to quickly tap one and it's another thing if you have to
>> review the words with Voiceover. I have no idea how Apple will implement
>> this with Voiceover, but I wouldn't jump with joy quite yet and for many
>> Fleksy is a favourite and all of those who use have been longing for the
>> day when Apple would allow system wide access to third-party keyboards.
>>
>> This and Apple's "extensibility" is quite a game changer as developers of
>> one app now can access information from other apps which previously was
>> not possible. I assume this means potentially different apps could use
>> voices you bought, for example, in Voice Dreamreader. Of course I'm not
>> sure if this is actually the case, but it sounds like it could work that
>> way.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sieghard
>> .
>>
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
>> Of Kliphton -------
>> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 7:07 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: Accessibility Features in iOS8
>>
>> Who cares about fleksy when the new apple key board does way more
>> On Jun 2, 2014, at 9:19 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I just wanted to let everyone know the major new iOS8 accessibility
>> features we know so far. This is from the Keynote - I don't even have the
>> beta, so I can't break an NDA.
>>
>> * Better Zoom
>> * Touch ID and a countdown timer as ways to exit Assistive Touch
>> * multi-device support for compatible hearing aids
>> * the Alex voice from OS X (possibly for Siri, or VO, we don't know for
>> sure)
>> * six-key braille input on-screen (no clue what this will look like)
>> * third-party keyboard support for the whole system, and Fleksy as said on
>> Twitter that it will be among the first to take advantage of this. Yes,
>> Fleksy will soon be available at any point in iOS when a keyboard appears,
>> from Mail to the App store to, well, anywhere!
>>
>> That's all I can think of for now, but between those and the standard iOS8
>> features, this is shaping up to be a very, very exciting release!
>>
>> --
>> Have a great day,
>> Alex Hall
>> mehg...@icloud.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
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