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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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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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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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Text-to-speech engines and pre-stored voices

Hows to use Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

SwiftBraille keyboard speeches each written letter, character, word, or even the whole text after you closed the keyboard. Based on the installed text-to-speech engine (TTS) in your system, and of course, some Android devices have default ones with some supported voices from different languages. Installed text-to-speech engines To view all installed engines: – Go to your device’s …

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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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Settings Screen

Hows to use Swift Braille / By Mohammad AlBanna

As the SwiftBraille project targets many groups; blind and visually impaired, there are some settings provided by SwiftBraille to be customized based on the user’s needs. Starting from version 2.0 of this project, we re-designed all aspects of the settings screen and grouped the common and related settings on special screens. Therefore, you can reach …

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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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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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