Direct Touch Typing isn't the same as the regular keyboard a sighted person uses. If it were, everything you touched, no matter for how long, would register. It requires a very quick and precise touch to enter text with direct touch typing. If you're not quick enough with the action, then you'll just be exploring the screen with no entry registering. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
> On 22/09/2014, at 3:59 pm, Chuck Dean <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Tom, > Yes, I think that is what this is. I think this just is the normal keyboard > that sighted people use, which is now become an option with voiceover. > Although I have not played with the keyboard at all, the description sounds > exactly like a regular keyboard. > > Chuck (mobile) > Pleez x cuze enny tie ping or spelin air ores. > >> On Sep 21, 2014, at 7:25 PM, "Thom Spittle" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Would direct touch typing be the same as someone using the virtual keyboard >> without voice over? >> >> If so, I can only think that this would benefit someone who is low vision >> enough to see the virtual keys, but still want the voice over feature. >> >> Is that an accurate description? >> >> Thom >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Christopher Chaltain >> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 9:30 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Direct touch typing >> >> At the risk of being condescended to, I guess I don't get it either. >> When I use touch typing, I drop my finger on the character I want to enter >> and then I lift my finger to insert that character into the edit field. I >> don't slide my finger around looking for the character I want, so I'm not >> quite seeing what direct touch typing buys me. I guess I'll just have to >> bring it up and play with it, since the descriptions I'm seeing on the list >> aren't really clicking with me. >> >>> On 09/21/2014 12:37 PM, christopher hallsworth wrote: >>> Touch typing is where you can slide your finger to a letter then lift >>> it before it will be inserted in a text field. Direct Touch Typing >>> involves directly tapping on the letter which will be immediately >>> inserted into a text field. I don't understand the confusion here? >>> >>> Sent from my Macbook Pro >>> >>> On 21 Sep 2014, at 18:36, Pablo Morales <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>>> But it sound like the old touch typing style, doesn't it? >>>> *From:*[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>[mailto:[email protected]]*On >>>> Behalf Of*christopher hallsworth >>>> *Sent:*Sunday, September 21, 2014 12:30 PM *To:*Viphone >>>> *Subject:*Re: Direct touch typing >>>> It works a lot like typing on a physical qwerty keyboard. Instead of >>>> finding the letter and either lifting your finger or double tap to >>>> insert, you simply tap and release immediately to input the letter, >>>> the same as you would on a physical qwerty keyboard. >>>> >>>> Sent from my Macbook Pro >>>> On 21 Sep 2014, at 13:44, Alvin <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sorry if this topic has already been covered. 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