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By day, I'm the Accessibility specialist at Desmos Studio. Otherwise, technology, music, fitness, amateur radio, and bad television from the 90's occupy the rest of my time. Dictators and Nazis not welcome.

@StroongeCast @jaybird110127 Two come to mind:

1. While waiting to get my hair cut at a barbor shop at age 12, a man and his wife sat down across from me, and he says to his wife, "see him? He's a punishment for his parents' sinful nature." I wanted to stomp his testicles.

2. A former coworker told me he'd rather have his terminal diabetes than be blind like me. He quit a few months later.

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.
Download: https://github.com/aaron-gh/taptype-releases/releases/latest
#TapType #Accessibility #A11y #Android #Blind #VisuallyImpaired #TalkBack #Keyboard #AssistiveTech
Release TapType 1.0.1 · aaron-gh/taptype-releases

Bug fixes Fixed touch passthrough breaking other keyboards when TalkBack is active. Passthrough now only activates when TapType is the current keyboard, and clears immediately on keyboard switch, ...

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#uspol #trump #HabitualLiar

Surprising no one, the man who said he graduated top of his class at Wharton -- or later backpedaled to "the highest grades possible" when his name wasn't found on any published class honors list -- the current US President, actually graduated two spots from the bottom of his class: 364 out of 366 according to Penn's archives.

Donald Trump didn't graduate top of his class, he barely made it out of college at all. According to Prof. William Kelley (by way of attorney Frank DiPrima) Trump was "the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!"

@ShortStamp Today I think I prefer beer o'clock.

"For the record, the President of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year." -- Daractenus

#USpol #Trump #Iran #war

@Jage Cool, glad it worked.
@Jage The temptation is real sometimes.
@Jage Violently lifting weights in the morning helps a lot.
@Jage You have to click the version number a few times, just like Android itself to enable developer mode.