Braille Tap

Welcome to the Braille Tap Keyboard!
This keyboard allows you to type by indicating standard six-dot English Braille patterns for characters, numbers, and basic punctuation.


Typing Instructions:
To type a raised dot, simply tap with one finger. Tapping with two fingers indicates no dot. For instance, to indicate the character A, tap once with one fingers and then tap five more times with two fingers.


There are a few gestures you can use to increase your typing speed. While entering a dot pattern you can swipe right to finish the character without the remaining taps. For instance, the character A can be entered with a one-finger tap followed by a swipe to the right. Swiping to the right without any taps inserts a space.
Swiping to the left will either cancel the character being entered, or will delete the previous character if no taps have been entered.
Swiping up one time will upper-case the following character. Swiping up two times will engage caps-lock.
Swiping down will disengage the caps-lock or cancel the capitalisation of the next letter.


To enter numeric digits, first tap the dots for the pound (numbers) sign. This will put the keyboard in number entry mode and any desired digits can be entered. Swipe down to return the keyboard to letter entry mode.


Keyboard Installation Instructions:
To use the Braille Tap keyboard, you must first install this application under the, "Keyboard," option found under general settings of your iOS device. You will need to select the Braille Tap keyboard from the list of available keyboards in your application.Once the Braille Tap keyboard is successfully installed, you may access this from any text entry based application which uses standard keyboards. Caution: if you select the Braille Tap keyboard from your list of keyboards and make it the default keyboard, you will be using this as your primary keyboard.

This keyboard extension requires knowledge of Unified English Braille character patterns. You can find images of those patterns within the app.