Soft Braille Keyboard 3.0-2
Free Version
Publisher Description
This Braille keyboard presents itself as a standard Android input method and can be used in any application where a keyboard is displayed to enter text. This enables an experienced Braille typist to exceed the typing speeds of sighted users across all of their applications.
Two keyboard layouts are supported. A conventional horizontal layout for large screens like tablets and a vertical layout suitable for smaller displays like phones. In both modes you can type using the standard Braille fingers and use convenient gestures to manipulate and read the text input. Both keyboard styles support additional configuration so that you can configure your perfect layout.
Both six dot literary and eight dot computer Braille are supported.
App translation is currently in progress, but currently Chinese, Czech, English, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (European / Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Vietnamese languages are fully supported.
Several Braille tables are supported by the app and more are constantly being added. These include English, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Vietnamese. Many more tables are present, but have not been fully tested yet. Please contact the developer directly if you want your language included.
Contracted Braille is supported for English UEB and US.
The keyboard has many more features including spell checking, voice dictation, text manipulation features, word count, auto-capitalisation and more.
Basic usage instructions:
* Open the Soft Braille Keyboard app and click the first button "Enable Soft Braille Keyboard", and enable this keyboard.
* Tap the second button "Set Soft Braille Keyboard as the default keyboard" and choose Soft Braille Keyboard.
* Tap on the edit field in the Soft Braille Keyboard application.
* Disable Talkback temporarily by pressing and holding the volume up and down keys simultaneously.
* If you are using a phone use the vertical layout by cradling the phone in your hands with the screen facing away from you and the device in landscape mode. Arrange your fingers in two vertical lines, so your two pointer fingers are closest to the top edge of the phone, middle fingers in the centre and ring fingers closest to the bottom edge. Leave a small gap between your two hands. Press and hold your three left fingers for 1.5 seconds and then do the same with your three right fingers to calibrate the keyboard.
* If you are using a tablet use the horizontal layout by placing the device flat on a table and arrange your six fingers in a straight line from left to right leaving a small gap between your two hands like a Perkins Brailler layout. Press and hold your three left fingers for 1.5 seconds and then do the same with your three right fingers to calibrate the keyboard.
* Type with your usual Braille fingers.
* Make use of gestures for example swipe dot 1 left / right to move back and forward by character respectively, swipe dot 4 right for space and dot 4 left for backspace.
* Once you are done press and hold the volume up /down keys simultaneously to re-enable Talkback, or just lock and unlock your device.
Soft Braille Keyboard has many more features. For details or troubleshooting
Please see https://goo.gl/O2UHN9 for the full user guide.
This project is also open source if you can contribute please get in touch with the developer. See: https://github.com/danieldalton10/Soft-Braille-Keyboard
About Soft Braille Keyboard
Soft Braille Keyboard is a free app for Android published in the PIMS & Calendars list of apps, part of Business.
The company that develops Soft Braille Keyboard is Daniel Dalton. The latest version released by its developer is 3.0-2.
To install Soft Braille Keyboard on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2016-12-18 and was downloaded 82 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Soft Braille Keyboard as malware as malware if the download link to com.dalton.braillekeyboard is broken.
How to install Soft Braille Keyboard on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the Soft Braille Keyboard is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by Soft Braille Keyboard will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- Soft Braille Keyboard will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
