Re: BrailleTouch iPhone App

2012-02-25 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Do either TypeNBraille or Braille touch process Grade 2!? If anyone knows how to be a beta tester for Braille Touch, let me know. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups

Re: BrailleTouch iPhone App

2012-02-22 Thread Chris Blouch
It hasn't been released yet. I guess they wanted to go through more user testing first. CB On 2/21/12 9:47 PM, Daniela Rubio wrote: Hello all! I found out that this App could be great. I knew one called Typeinbraille, but if this works as the video says, it should be great! Where can I downlo

Re: BrailleTouch iPhone App

2012-02-21 Thread Daniela Rubio
Hello all! I found out that this App could be great. I knew one called Typeinbraille, but if this works as the video says, it should be great! Where can I download Brailletouch for iPhone or iPad? I can't find it in the Appstore. Thank you! SALUDOS, DANIELA R.T. MACNETICOS, APPLE Y ACCESIBILIDAD

Re: BrailleTouch iPhone App

2012-02-21 Thread Chris Blouch
True, but at some level there is a desire to allow anyone to use the same interface. So whether I tap around the screen or do split taps and flicks to move focus, it's still the same interface. It gets a little weirder when talking about a virtual keyboard because it's not really part of the ap

Re: BrailleTouch iPhone App

2012-02-21 Thread Chris Blouch
Thanks, as always, for the additional detail. I would also like to subscribe to the viphone list but I have a hard enough time keeping up with this one, and my phone questions are far fewer than my Mac ones. CB On 2/21/12 3:07 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Chris, I heard about this from Dónal Fitzpat

Re: BrailleTouch iPhone App

2012-02-21 Thread Esther
Hi Chris, I heard about this from Dónal Fitzpatrick in the category of most interesting conference results that he couldn't talk about in detail, so I'll be looking forward to this. Thanks for the heads up. There's also been recent coverage at Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news

Re: BrailleTouch iPhone App

2012-02-21 Thread Claus Thøgersen
Hi, Actually universal design does not mean that everybody is forced to use the same UI, rather the other way around, that an app or the product you are designing must meet users way of using the device, and that real world users use devices in many different ways. Claus Den 21-02-2012 2

BrailleTouch iPhone App

2012-02-21 Thread Chris Blouch
Dunno if anyone read these articles about using a chorded 6-finger input system to type on a mobile device. It would seem that it should be much faster to input this way but they haven't done real testing/analysis on this. It also requires holding the phone sideways with the screen pointing awa