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Looking for feedback on our new website for FlickType, the fastest keyboard app in the world for users who are blind or low-vision. Thank you, smile! (flicktype.com)
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usualninja 2 points 4y ago
I highly recommend low vision users to check out this app. It is extremely easy and even fun to use and it has drastically increased my typing speed. My phone is far more useful to me now that I can type so fast.
Thank you so much for developing this app!
Thank you so much for developing this app!
FlickType [OP] 1 points 4y ago
Thank you, smile!
Amonwilde 2 points 5y ago
This is actually a pretty amazing app. I just signed up for their $1 thingy so that the keyboard works in other apps. There are some features I'd like to see, like message normalization that prevents adding extra whitespace and double spaces, which I have trouble avoiding. It's actually kind of fun to use, though, especially if you're not writing something with a lot of weird words in it, like a text. I imagine it's only going to get better. I hope others try it because I want it to stick around.
FlickType [OP] 1 points 5y ago
Thank you for the kind words and your support!
We're working hard to improve the keyboard as well as add new features, while maintaining a philosophy of minimalism and utility. For anyone interested, here's our AppleVis post with all the updates in just the last month:
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Feel free to tell us more about what would make FlickType better for you, we're always eager to hear from our users.
Warmly,
Kosta
We're working hard to improve the keyboard as well as add new features, while maintaining a philosophy of minimalism and utility. For anyone interested, here's our AppleVis post with all the updates in just the last month:
$1
Feel free to tell us more about what would make FlickType better for you, we're always eager to hear from our users.
Warmly,
Kosta
FlickType [OP] 1 points 5y ago
Thanks, coming up with the tradeoffs has been particularly challenging here. The "weirdness" that you mention is caused by iOS bugs in areas that are unfortunately completely outside of our control, ie outside of the keyboard APIs. We've had another couple of similar reports and have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to hunt such issues down. Even though we've eventually addressed a few of those successfully with some non-standard workarounds, we haven't yet managed to reproduce some of what you're describing here - we'll have to try the WhatsApp signup flow. At least it seems that most of the major issues are not widespread but rather happen under rare situations, so for the vast majority of people it works great.
On the spacing issue, this is a tricky one to resolve and seems generally low impact, but it's definitely on the list. I'm curious, what is your level of sight, and if you have some sight, do you have any comments on the visual feedback we provide for low-vision folks?
\- Kosta
On the spacing issue, this is a tricky one to resolve and seems generally low impact, but it's definitely on the list. I'm curious, what is your level of sight, and if you have some sight, do you have any comments on the visual feedback we provide for low-vision folks?
\- Kosta
Amonwilde 1 points 5y ago
There seem to be a few issues with getting the keyboard to switch in some contexts. You might try, for example, signing up for a WhatsApp account with FlickType enabled.
Amonwilde 1 points 5y ago
Thanks, and great responsiveness. I'm a programmer myself, though not on iOS, and so I know it can be hard to come up with the right tradeoffs and also to maintain everything that is created.
My first day using it, I found myself adding a lot of whitespace by accident. I seem to be doing that less now, but I've noticed that blind people tend to add a lot of unneeded whitespace because it doesn't register in the audio when reading things back. Perhaps making double spaces and returns more "visible" (in the auditory sense) would help.
I've also triggered some weirdness where Flicktype seems to "take over" and I can't get out of it, even affecting behavior in the lock screen when I try to lock and unlock the phone to get back to what I was doing. I don't know how to replicate this yet, though, and will message if I figure out what's triggering it.
In general, though, this is just a spot on app, and I recommend it to all blind and low vision iOS users. Slow typing was actually my #1 gripe with my iPhone and even on my second day of using this I'm typing at least 100% faster, probably more like 150%. So thanks for your work and I hope it pays off for you.
My first day using it, I found myself adding a lot of whitespace by accident. I seem to be doing that less now, but I've noticed that blind people tend to add a lot of unneeded whitespace because it doesn't register in the audio when reading things back. Perhaps making double spaces and returns more "visible" (in the auditory sense) would help.
I've also triggered some weirdness where Flicktype seems to "take over" and I can't get out of it, even affecting behavior in the lock screen when I try to lock and unlock the phone to get back to what I was doing. I don't know how to replicate this yet, though, and will message if I figure out what's triggering it.
In general, though, this is just a spot on app, and I recommend it to all blind and low vision iOS users. Slow typing was actually my #1 gripe with my iPhone and even on my second day of using this I'm typing at least 100% faster, probably more like 150%. So thanks for your work and I hope it pays off for you.
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