typing mode preference

Hi,
I use both touch typing & Braille screen input.
I tend to prefer braille screen input, but when it becomes finicky, as it has quite frequently as of late, I'll resort to touch typing, using quick path.
I hear that quick path is supposed to work on the iPad, but I've yet to be successful with it.
I have the magic keyboard case for my iPad, so it's not as big a deal there.

Well I am able to visualize where the keys are and able to tap on it and select. Although for long typing I use my iPad for messages and a logitech slim folio keyboard. Long live Alicia and cats.

i use it on my iPad and Samsung phone, i also have a Hable so use that a lot

I can do touch typing, and can even do BSI, but I absolutely love split-tap typing. Then again, I still prefer touch ID over Face ID. Just call me old-fashioned I guess. 🤷

BSI all the way!

Standard typing person here or dictation mainly. Anything that’s a long post like this I have to use dictation for. I’ve been totally blind since Perth so I’ve never been able to figure out direct touch typing or even the regular touch typing. I’ve never been able to get a hang of the Braille screen input so it’s standard typing all the way for me end dictation.

I love the direct touch typing method. Pretty used to the way the iPhone keyboard is laid out visually since I used iOS prior to going blind, and it's just much faster. I struggle with BSI, mainly with the finger placement.

P.S. What's the story behind your catchphrase, Long live cats?

Direct touch typing for me. I switch off the in-line predictions as I find them disruptive, and I use quite a few text replacement shortcuts.
Dave

I mostly use BSI, and occasionally touch typing. I've tried direct touch typing and that was a huge mess!

As I find sliding my finger around if needed then just lifting easy. Could probably manage direct touch typing but I find if you do make a mistake it would be more time consuming to fix than it is with slide and lift. For long stuff may use dictation which for me works well unlike for some.

I almost always use BSI. If I need to write something longer, I've started using my Magic Keyboard more. I find trying to Braille with the Perkins keyboard on my display is really sluggish, outside of Braille Access, and the only reason i don't use that as much as I thought I would is because the space bar on my Focus is crap.

I love BSI. BSI and UEB is super flexible. In certain circumstances where I have found BSI to be inadvisable e.g. online banking, I'll go with touch typing. I've also taken to using braille access for typing out long pieces of text before copying and pasting them over into, say, Outlook, when I have my Brailliant connected. This seems to produce far fewer typing errors than brailling directly into the app itself, I've found, which is interesting.

Dave Mason's observation above about shortcuts reminds me that I've never been a text shortcuts or predictive text man. I hated it on the Nokia and I don't use anything like that on the iPhone. First thing I do is disable all that stuff. I used to find on the Nokia that it interrupted my typing momentum and produced unintended results. I suppose I have psychologically carried such misgivings over to the iPhone, which I've owned since 2010. Interesting, though, isn't it? Predictive text and so on has been around for, as far as I can remember, the last 28 years or so; and yet I still regard it as a very recently added ffeature which I can't get used to.

I never liked the Braille screen input because it’s somewhat redundant. In my opinion, it doesn’t simulate the Braille typing experience and is too complicated. So, touch typing is the way to go. If I can type like a cited individual, why do I have to learn a new way of typing?

Yes I find the in-line predictions unbearable, way too disruptive to my flow. I’m ok with the ones above the keyboard as they are not disruptive, and are occasionally useful. Similar to Bingo, back in the T9 days, I disabled predictive typing on my Nokia and Siemens phones.
The text expansions though work well for me, perhaps because they are created by me and become ingrained. In some cases, though I don’t know or use a lot of braille, I borrow from braille contractions, such as “tn“ expanding to “tonight”.
Similar to Alicia, I use word echo, though also have character echo on. Often, even when I know I’ve made a mistake, I hear the bubble sounds and am confident it will auto correct.
My main gripe with direct touch typing is when I accidentally hit Shift, Enter, Delete or Space when aiming for a letter, or vice versa. It might be nice if you could hide those keys and use gestures for those actions instead.
Dave

I use Braille Screen Input for long-form text. For passwords and similar, I use Touch Typing. It's my impression that Direct Touch Typing really requires Autocorrect to be useful, and Autocorrect is an absolute hard no for me.

While I do most of my longer writing on a physical keyboard, I prefer touch typing when using the onscreen keyboard. I don't like the slide to type and don't use autocorrect but deeply appreciate spellcheck. Touch typing with typing feedback set to characters works best for me. I can hear when I miss the mark and slide to the right key before lifting my finger. Direct touch typing was a total disaster for me. Too unforgiving and too easy to miss the right charactger by a smidgen.

I use Touch Typing on the virtual on - screen keyboard for quick interactions. However, when writing in English, I much prefer Braille Screen Input (BSI) as it is significantly faster than the standard keyboard. On buses, trains, or during short trips, I usually leave my Braille display behind, so BSI becomes my primary and most efficient method for typing."

Standard typing on either braille display nls EReader, or standard typing on Iphone. No BSI for me or touch or direct touch for me.