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Swift Braille project is open source now

About Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

Since the development process of the Swift Braille soft keyboard project for the blind and visually impaired, there was a team behind the scene, a beta tester from the blind and visually impaired who are testing the new versions before releasing it to be live on the store! Swift Braille provides a new concept with …

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How to speed up typing using Swift Braille

About Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

Since the release testing version of the SwiftBraille project to the store, I was reading all feedback and discussions between the blind about the project and the new concept that has been provided by this project on the internet to type using just one hand and one finger in Braille language. A lot of effort and time has …

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Version 2.0 of Swift Braille is released: Connect The Dots

Swift Braille News / By Mohammad AlBanna

For about two months, I’ve been working on a whole new version of the SwiftBraille project, and today I’m happy to announce that version 2.0 of the project is officially released on the Google play store, after two beta(s) releases to be tested by two groups around the world! As always, in this post I’ll focus …

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Connect the Braille dots or stop over them

Hows to use Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

The main idea of the Swift Braille project is that the user is able to connect the Braille dots together, not just tap over them to type letters, numbers, and symbols as they’re represented in Braille language. This feature is a great one if the user wants to type in one hand and one finger in Braille language. …

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Operations Bars

Hows to use Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

Starting from version (1.1) of SwiftBraille, and because of the conflict between using gestures and other screen readers, the operations bars feature has been added to give users the ability to make some operations without using gestures! You can activate this feature from the settings screen, and scroll down to Advanced Settings: After you checked the …

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How to download the app and activate it as the default keyboard

Hows to use Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

You can download the Swift Braille app from the Google play store, as this app is provided for Android devices, and looking into providing it on other platforms…soon! Download the app 1. To download the app from Google Play, you can search for the “SwiftBraille” keyword in the Google play store, or go directly download …

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Exceptions you can type without changing the keyboards types

Hows to use Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

Starting from version (1.1), the user is able to type punctuation marks from letter keyboards, without moving to the special symbols keyboard (keyboard number five in English, Spanish, French, and keyboard number four in Arabic)! You can type from letters keyboard – At. – Comma. – Full stop. – Question mark. – Exclamation mark. – At …

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Advanced settings screen

Hows to use Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

This screen contains not related and most common settings: – Activate gestures: You can activate or inactivate the gestures, this option is good if you’re using operations bars and you hate gestures. – Show operations bars: Provide three bars with a set of buttons to make some of the operations, rather than using gestures, described in this …

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Version 1.1 of Swift Braille for the blind is released

Swift Braille News / By Mohammad AlBanna

Days ago, a new version number (1.1) has been released with more than +25 features and fixes. Earlier, we released another four beta versions which were being tested by testers from the SwiftBraille development team on Facebook, you can also join the testing program as described in this post. Let’s take a quick and focused look …

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Numbers keyboard

Hows to use Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

SwiftBraille keyboard supports typing numbers, if you tried to type numbers on an Arabic keyboard, the numbers will be written in Hindi representation. Keyboard number three is the numbers keyboard in English language keyboard, and keyboard number two is the numbers keyboard in the Arabic language. That’s because the total number of keyboards in the …

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