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The final report of the questionnaire

At the end of the previous year 2016, we launched a campaign to support Arabic language/voices inside the Google text-to-speech engine. The campaign took a place in the Arab world successfully, we launched a questionnaire with a set of questions to hear from users (blind or sighted people), and the Arabic hashtag was and still …

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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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SwiftBraille is a winner in AlSabah award for informatics 2016

Swift Braille project won with AlSabah award for informatics 2016

Swift Braille News / By Mohammad AlBanna

Yesterday, The Annual Informatics Award located in Kuwait country announced that in a conference the winners of the Al-Sabah awards for informatics in its round 16th, Swift Braille project represented Palestine in this award with another private company! The subscription In August of this year (2016), the Swift Braille project has been selected with other 6 mobile apps as …

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Why Swift Braille is a good project for students to learn the Braille language

About Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

Since the launch of the SwiftBraille project at the beginning of 2016, we started to implement the most important features for the blind and visually impaired, in my opinion, this project still needs a lot of work to let the keyboard as a default keyboard for the blind and visually impaired on their Android devices. Of …

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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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The popup menu

Hows to use Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

Note: Starting from version 2.0, and for technical issues, we’ve removed this feature from the app and looking to provide a more reliable popup window in the next versions. Starting from the official version of SwiftBraille 1.0, the popup menu is supported and gives a lot of functions rather than depending on the gestures! How …

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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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How Braille dots are distributed on the screen

Hows to use Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

Starting from version 2.0 of SwiftBraille soft keyboard, we’ve provided three layouts of the Braille dots positions on the screen, most of the settings will be shown and others will be hidden based on the layout of the selected dots, especially in the “Advanced settings” section. You can change the layout of the dots from …

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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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How to make gestures

Hows to use Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

SwiftBraille supports some gestures to make some of the functions, besides the operations bars as well. Where can I do gestures? Starting from version 2.0 of SwiftBraille, we’ve removed the restricted area to make gestures (which was in the middle of the screen), and now you’re able to do that on any of free space on the …

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