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> On Jan 24, 2015, at 2:16 PM, christopher hallsworth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > <http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/> > iPad app brings Braille keyboard to blind users’ fingertips > <http://macdailynews.com/2015/01/24/ipad-app-brings-braille-keyboard-to-blind-users-fingertips/>by > MacDailyNews <http://macdailynews.com/author/macdailynews/> > [cfsp key="adsense_336x280"]"The proliferation of touchscreen technology may > have revolutionized mobile computer input for most everyone, but there’s one > sector of the population that isn’t exactly feeling the pinch, the tap, or > the swipe: the blind," Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. "It’s nearly > impossible to interact with elements on a totally smooth screen if you can’t > see." > > "iBrailler Notes > <https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8&uo=4&at=10lody>, > which began as a summer project at Stanford University in 2011 and is now > available as a stand-alone app for iOS, aims to offer blind and > vision-impaired iPad users an easy way to type Braille notes and perform > basic word processing on a touchscreen," Bonnington reports. "iBrailler > <https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8&uo=4&at=10lody> > isn’t the first to undertake this commercially... [But] what iBrailler > <https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibrailler-notes/id929976332?mt=8&uo=4&at=10lody> > does differently is position its touch keyboard underneath the user’s > fingertips, no matter where they set them on the iPad’s slick glass display. > Every time you lift and readjust your hands on the screen, the keyboard does > too. The keyboard uses Braille English Grade 1, Grade 2, and Six-Dot Computer > Braille, and features built-in gestures for tasks like cutting, copying, and > pasting text." > > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > --- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone > <http://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
