Hi Rajmund,
When you place your fingers on the screen, your thumbs rest naturally on where
the virtual spacebar is. I suspect it's envisaged you'd use one of these.
Turning your wrist to activate the spacebar with your index finger would
probably be a slightly awkward operation. It may well be doable, though I'm
not sure how that would affect the calibration you perform by placing all ten
fingers on the unit. The screen is comparatively large, so you're not cramped
by brailling towards the bottom of it.
On the question of QWERTY input, Humanware confirmed on one of the podcasts
that there's currently no Voicenote Touch so to speak, and they weren't clear
that they would be developing one though that's not to say they won't.
Cheers,
Ed
On 26 Apr 2016, at 22:40, rajmund <brajmund2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Ed,
If one uses their index finger on space, is that easy on the touch? It is
with physical keys, as well as IOS, but wonder on the flat screen, especially
if one uses the bottom part of the scpeen to write on.
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Hi Rajmund,
I found brailling on the Touch much quicker and more intuitive. This was
because you didn't need any gestures to enter spaces, delete, bring up
punctuation/symbols etc. On the Touch, the space bar is where it would be on
a physical keyboard, and has already been described, dots 7 and 8 work as
they do on a physical keyboard.
Humanware say that your fingers don't need to hit precise targets on the
touch and claim they do on iOS braille input methods which ought to make
brailling on the Touch easier, but in practice on iOS I haven't found this to
be a problem.
Cheers,
Ed
On 26 Apr 2016, at 21:16, rajmund <brajmund2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Anyone tried brailleing on IOS? If so, which one was faster? Touch or IOS?
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Hi John,
There was a discussion on the BCAB list about Sendero yesterday. Short
answer is that it won't work as Sendero don't support Android.
I was pretty impressed with the speed I was able to get brailling on the
touch screen, though the price and updatability obviously remain relevant
considerations.
Cheers,
Ed
On 26 Apr 2016, at 20:19, john gallagher <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hi ian thanks and like you i could teach this new device for them easily.
you have to give it to humanware at least they are moving on the window ce
which is a plus. it would be very very interesting like paul says to have a
look at it. the quickness of the braille input and also how good is the web
on it. with my u 2 now a lot of sites are just no good really. i can see
where steve comes from saying use main stream. one thing that i have not
heard is concerning the sendero gps programm on the braille notes now, i
wonder if that will run on the new device probably not. must ask someone at
humanware about this one as i always used it before my i-phone. it was a
real saver in many piano tuning trips i had to make. thanks for the infoe
ian cheers there.
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Date: Tuesday, 26 April 2016 8.09 pm
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Following a history of the project and a public demo of the Braillenote Touch
by Greg Stilson, units were available for hands-on exploration. Because,
like many on this list I have quite a good knowledge of using Humanware kit I
was able to find my way round it very easily. The launch event was at Canada
House in Trafalgar Square London. the venue was chosen because of
Humanware's Canadian links and because much of the dev work was done in
Montreal Canada.
On 26 Apr 2016, at 20.04, john gallagher <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hi ian where was the demo was it at the sight village in edinbrurgh very
interesting as jackie and paul say but, my fear is to spend such an amount on
something like this how long would it work with some of the apps. really
will be like a braille note on a tablet. and if you need to have the most up
to date android experience for very little now you can acquire a tablet for
"150. though because keysoft is the over lay it will always work okay. i
will have to have a look at one but maybe for me i will wait for the orbit 20
and use it with my iphone and laptop. you never know though if sheff
wednesday win the play offs i could have a good bet on them and then buy one.
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0was
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been running for yonks.
On 26 Apr 2016, at 18.13, rajmund <brajmund2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
Isn't keySoft just a redesigned talkBack?
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<ian.macrae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
0was 0was
0was 0was I asked the questions about Kitkat and more recent apps. The
reason given for going with KitKat was that it had their preferred level of
accessibility. They also said that Google was concerned to continue
supporting older OS versions because of the numbers of their customers who're
still working with devices running them. There was an estimate that around
fifty per cent of all Android users are still using KitKat and older
versions. Humanware will be putting on its website a page recommending apps
on the grounds of accessibility. But there was also a general Caveat emptor
warning about buying apps from the Play store as many will not have been
optimised for accessibility.
On 26 Apr 2016, at 17.12, paul leake <paul.leake@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Interesting Ian. How did you hear of the launch and where was it?
I wonder if the silent keyboard write as fast as the in-case one, it'd be
interesting to test this. Also my concern is that the use of kitcat means
that we're behind before we start the race" as my guess is that they won't
develop the operating system beyond that and in five years time where will
that leave the product? What are your thoughts about this question?
Yes, it does look interesting and I intend to get a demo to put it through
its paces!
Kind regards,
Paul
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Just back from the Humanware event. the launch was a smoothly and
professionally run event with Humanware as usual showing that it cares about
its customers. I went to it not exactly a sceptic but certain requiring
persuasion. I cam away from it not converted but definitely impressed. this
is exactly what it claims to be an android tablet with Braille fully
integrated. Any concerns about Android accessibility or usability are dealt
with by the fact that the tablet is operated using Humanware's proprietary
Keysoft suite of apps as an overlay. In other words, if you know the
commands and conventions of using keysoft you can run the Braillenote Touch
as a tablet. In order to operate in a more demanding environment Keysoft has
had several elements upgraded. So you might say that what it is is a Tablet
disguised as a Humanware note taker. The demo strongly indicated that
everything you would want to do on the tablet from writing and sending an
email to searching for and w
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Tube videos can be effectively done using the Keysoft apps. One thing that's
different from previous Humanware products is that if you create a document
in Keyword, the word processor app, it is presented in Microsoft docx
format. But the real kicker is the method for inputting Braille. If you
briefly rest your fingers on the touch screen behind the Braille display it
gives a short vibration. This means it has recognised your fingers and the
positions they are in. You can then begin inputting Braille directly on to
the screen which appears on the Braille line. What I found interesting was
that even things like dot 8 for enter and 7 for backspace performed these
actual functions. The device can also be supplied with a smart case which
also contains a full Humanware Braille keyboard.
I have to say, being a hopeless gadget boy, when I saw and used it I
immediately wanted one. Trouble is that I can do all of these things
accessibly on my iPad and iPhone optionally using my Braille device via
bluetooth. The difference of course is that the Keysoft first letter
selection method of navigation means that if you land on a web page and have
no idea what it looks like or where anything is, you can immediately find the
search button by pressing the Braille $ letter so.
It comes in two versions, 18 and 40 cell displays. the former is 2995 and
the latter 3995 which gives some indication of how much the price is loaded
by the cost of the Braille cells and tech. If I was starting all over and
didn't have any other devices I would give it serious consideration. But its
real potential lies with learners inparticular who are coming new to Braille
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