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Braille Screen Input iOS Questions (self.Blind)
submitted by razzretina
I use BSI a lot on my phone but I've been wondering a couple things about it. Does anyone know if it's possible to disable the print characters and words appearing between the braille dots when typing? Also is there any way to disable the two finger scrub escape? I don't know why but that gesture has consistently caused me a lot of trouble over the years and the few minutes I found a workaround to disable it were heaven haha. Thanks for any advice! And if anyone just wants to share tips, tricks, and favorite things about BSI I'd love to hear them. :)
CloudyBeep 2 points 11m ago
I don't think either is possible.
retrolental_morose 2 points 11m ago
Me neither. I wondered if you could do something with a Voiceover activity triggered on word processing, but screen curtain doesn't seem to be a customisable setting unfortunately.
Is this any different to a sighted person texting, though? And surely given that both your hands are covering more of the screen than a typical finger, there's less to view anyway?
I keep my brightness down partly to save my battery, partly to deter people looking, but it does make screenshots a pain.
Is this any different to a sighted person texting, though? And surely given that both your hands are covering more of the screen than a typical finger, there's less to view anyway?
I keep my brightness down partly to save my battery, partly to deter people looking, but it does make screenshots a pain.
CloudyBeep 1 points 11m ago
I don't understand your last paragraph. In terms of taking screenshots, brightness shouldn't matter.
retrolental_morose 2 points 11m ago
Sighted people say they're darker ... means little to me but they'd know surely?
CloudyBeep 1 points 11m ago
I haven't found that to be the case.
razzretina [OP] 2 points 11m ago
I have some usuable vision and tend to flip between using BSI and my vision to help navigate my phone so fast that screen curtain isn't very feasible.
pisces0387 2 points 11m ago
I don't understand why you wouldn't just use screen curtain? If you're proficient enough with voiceover that you're using BSI, I imagine that navigation of your phone would be way easier with voiceover and not trying to use vision altogether
razzretina [OP] 2 points 11m ago
Alas, I thought that might be the case. Every gesture with BSI is editable it seems except two finger scrub. And I have never figured out why there's no option to disable the print characters; handy for braille learners with vision but most of us don't want strangers on the bus reading our texts as we write them heh. Thanks for the reply!
CloudyBeep 3 points 11m ago
Why not lower the brightness to 0 and/or use Screen Curtain (three finger triple-tap)?
razzretina [OP] 2 points 11m ago
I use what vision I have a lot to help navigate my phone in conjunction with Voiceover and BSI. It's not usually much of an issue at home, I'm just uncomfortable texting in public because of the visible characters but not very confident using the phone with screen curtain on or so dim I can't see it at all.
NovemberGoat 3 points 11m ago
Do the print characters not disappear when you use the screen curtain?
razzretina [OP] 1 points 11m ago
They do but I don't use the screen curtain. I'm operating my phone with a mix of very limited vision, mostly Voiceover, and BSI.
DHamlinMusic 2 points 11m ago
As far as I know it's not any different on Android, not sure what the gesture you mention is but the other part is the same.
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