When looking in the Braille settings on my iPad the other day, I discovered a toggle that offers the ability to type Braille chords directly on a QWERTY keyboard, using the F, D, S, and J, K, L keys as dots 1–6 respectively.
Does anyone know more about how this works? I couldn’t seem to get it to work using my Magic Keyboard or an old Bluetooth keyboard connected to my iPhone.
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nothing here
I've tried this, nothing works either, nothing is mentioned about it in the user guide, possibly a feature yet to be implemented?
You have to hold down…
You have to hold down spacebar at the same time. It's chords, so for navigation. I don't think it works for writing.
i've tryed, still doesn't…
i've tryed, still doesn't work
As have I
I've also tried that. Also, in the what's new in VoiceOver section, it specifically mentions being able to type letters as well as words.
Hmm, working my end. It does…
Hmm, working my end. It does only talk about chords when pressed with the spacebar.
Settings > Voiceover > Brail Enter brail chords on keyboard
What it says in what's new
“Braille Keyboard Input, Activate the Toggle Braille Input command and use your keyboard to enter braille dots and commands.”
I suspect this command has to be assigned Maybe?
I think I am going to try to play with this once my iPad is charged.
I went looking through the list of VO commands, and I think that this command has to be manually assigned.
@Katie P
You were 100% correct. I just set up a touch gesture, and I can now type braille on my keyboard. It's strange though, I don't seem to be getting any typing feedback. I'd be interested to see if you do / can get that to work.
Feedback
I’m getting feedback when typing in all modes.
Something I noticed today
While troubleshooting some other things not related to this feature, I reset all VoiceOver commands to their defaults.
In so doing, I noticed that by default VO COMMAND Semicolon appears to be the default command to toggle Braille input with the QWERTY keyboards .
I figured I'd point this out. :)
Wow, didn't know it could do…
Wow, didn't know it could do this. Good catch.
I've set vo full stop to turn it on and off though, as mentioned above, there isn't any feedback, not sure why.
The vo command ; doesn't seem to work either, just get the error chime.
Just contacted apple accessibility
They said they had had other feedback in regards this bug but please please please call or email them. Getting this fixed soon would be great, and the more we send, the more they'll listen.