BrailleTexts (en)

BrailleTexts is an evolution of BraillePad, an app designed for visually impaired individuals that introduced the Visual Braille concept. With BrailleTexts a person who is visually impaired can type documents using the same braille coding as used on a mechanic brailer at the same rate: 4 characters per second. The user can rotate the device in landscape mode to activate the braille pad feature and start typing with their fingers. To use: take iPhone between palms with the screen facing away and in this position, the default settings are the following:

• left index finger: dot 1
• left middle finger: dot 2
• left ring finger: dot 3

 

• right index finger: dot 4
• right middle finger: dot 5
• right ring finger: dot 6

With BrailleText a user can type at high speed (about 4 letters per second), choose between 6- and 8-dots braille, select your preferred braille coding table, load, edit and save documents, navigate a message with high-speed gestures, perform standard operations such as cut, copy and past using a fast selection method, manage documents, use iTunes file sharing feature to import/export documents, share your messages on most famous socials, send your messages via mail and/or SMS. and copy messages to the clipboard.