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Ka Li
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Name is Ka (pronounced Kai). Accessibility advocate, Krav Maga practitioner, avid book reader, and tech enthusiast. Opinions are my own.
@JustinMac84 Nothing yet, but we're using Ikea furniture for testing.
@JustinMac84 nonvisual furniture assembly is something that I'm researching with a few folks, and building up infrastructure to support tactile design regardless of whether you're blind/sighted is what I'm focusing on currently.
@JustinMac84 Yep. Not as much right now, but still doing a bit of work as time permits.
@JustinMac84 For sure! Working on a lot of cool projects in the digital fabrication and tactile design space.
@JustinMac84 doing all right. How are you?
Marco SalsicciaMy Whack A Braille game is now live on the #iOS App Store! Whack moles with #Braille Screen Input, an external braille display, or a bluetooth keyboard! Practice your touch typing and your braille entry and win silly prizes! Lots of general gameplay updates from my original web version, so have fun playing! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whack-a-braille/id6760976367
Martinusing Thunderbird and want to create a different email sound for each account that you have? Well, now you can, with Filtaquilla. You can also do many more things with this banana of an extension: https://services.addons.thunderbird.net/En-US/thunderbird/addon/filtaquilla/
Multiple people have asked me to add support for reading QRead's .qrd files into Paperback. However, I didn't really want to do this, because it would require dragging in an SQLite library, there's very little useful structured info in those files for Paperback, and it would add an extra item to the installer. So instead, I wrote a little program I call qrd2txt. Usage is incredibly simple, you just run it and select one or more QRD files from the open dialog you get shown. After pressing open, every file will be converted from <filename>.qrd to <filename>.txt. Original .qrd files are preserved too, and it tells you if it fails on any of them. Download: https://github.com/trypsynth/qrd2txt/releases/download/0.1.0/qrd2txt.exe enjoy!
TapType is out. It's a keyboard for blind Android users.
There are no visible keys. You tap where QWERTY keys would be from muscle memory, and a spatial prediction algorithm figures out what you meant. It scores nearby keys using a Gaussian proximity model and runs a beam search against an 80,000 word dictionary. You don't need to be precise. That's the whole point.
Swipe right to commit a word. Swipe down or up to cycle through suggestions. Swipe left to delete. It learns what words you use most and ranks them higher over time, and you can add your own words to a personal dictionary.
Every letter has its own unique sound, from Andre Louis's keyboard sound recordings, so you can learn to identify keys by ear without relying on speech. Each swipe direction has a distinct sound too. TTS is there when you want it, adjustable speed, and you can turn it off entirely if you prefer sounds only.
It has emoji search with skin tone selection and favourites, a number pad mode, an upper case mode, and full punctuation support with a customizable quick list. Two-finger gestures handle things like send, close keyboard, switch keyboard, and voice input.
Everything works with TalkBack. I built this because FlickType was a fantastic keyboard for blind iOS users and then it was gone. Nothing like it existed on Android, so I made one.
It's free, no ads, no tracking, no metrics. I'm not evil.
Edit: Now on 2.0 with multiple languages supported.
If you find TapType useful, consider supporting its development:
https://paypal.me/aaronhewitt
https://github.com/sponsors/aaron-gh
https://liberapay.com/fireborn/
Download: https://github.com/aaron-gh/taptype-releases/releases/latest
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