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On Behalf Of BrailleTouch
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 7:32 AM
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Subject: Introducing BrailleTouch - an iPhone app for typing in
braille on your touchscreen
Greetings and Happy Holidays!
My name is Caleb, and I'm one of the developers of a new iPhone
app called BrailleTouch. BrailleTouch allows you to type using
braille on your touchscreen, and is based on the standard six key
braille keyboard. We are excited to announce that BrailleTouch
will be on the App Store by the end of January! We hope that you
will like BrailleTouch and find it useful. I'm happy to answer
any questions you may have, and I've included some more
information about the app below.
With BrailleTouch, you can send text messages, emails, and tweets
from the touchscreen braille keyboard. You can also copy text
you type in braille to the clipboard and paste it into other apps
on your iPhone. There is a free version of BrailleTouch, so you
can try it before you buy it. The free version lets you type in
braille and hear the text you entered. Many braille instructors
have told us that they would like to use BrailleTouch as a
teaching tool, which the free version will support. Additional
features are available as In App Purchases. The Messaging
Upgrade allows you to send text messages, emails, and tweets from
the touchscreen braille keyboard. The Clipboard Upgrade allows
you to copy text from the touchscreen braille keyboard and paste
it into other apps on your iPhone.
BrailleTouch is based on research conducted at Georgia Tech in
Atlanta, Georgia, USA, where I am a graduate student. My
colleagues and I tested the software with eleven volunteers who
are blind. We found that people who knew the standard Perkins
braille keyboard were able to master BrailleTouch within an hour
of practice and type at an average of 23 words per minute using
Grade 1 braille. We received such positive feedback that we were
inspired to take this research out of the laboratory and release
BrailleTouch to the public. We hope this software will provide a
helpful alternative to the VoiceOver split tap keyboard, and that
it will help improve the mobile computing experience for people
in the blind community who use an iPhone.
BrailleTouch is fully compatible with VoiceOver. It works on the
iPhone 3GS through the iPhone 5, iPod touch models since the 3rd
generation, and requires iOS 5.0 or a later operating system.
BrailleTouch is only for the iPhone and iPod touch, and is not
supported on the iPad. The first release is based on North
American English Grade 1 Uncontracted Braille. You can choose to
hear speech feedback for each character you type, each word you
type, or both.
More information about BrailleTouch is available on our website:
http://brailletouchapp.com/
The website includes a User Guide and Frequently Asked Questions.
You can also sign up for our email list, and we will notify you
when we have an exact release date in January for the app.
We are also on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/brailletouch
With the free version of BrailleTouch, you can try out the
touchscreen braille keyboard and hear the text that you typed
read back to you. The Messaging Upgrade allows you to send text
messages, emails, and tweets, and costs US$9.99. The Clipboard
Upgrade allows you to copy text from the braille keyboard to
paste into other apps, and costs US$9.99. You must have the
Messaging Upgrade first before you can get the Clipboard Upgrade.
I am happy to answer any questions you may have. We are very
excited about the upcoming release of BrailleTouch on the App
Store. I hope that you will like BrailleTouch and find it
useful.
Best wishes and happy holidays,
Caleb
The BrailleTouch Team
http://brailletouchapp.com/
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