Good news for android users!!
Android is getting upgraded with new features and updates day by day. Google launches a virtual braille keyboard to most modern Android devices on Thursday dated 9 April 2020.
So what is Braille?
Braille is a system of touch reading and writing for blind persons in which raised dots to represent the letters of the alphabet. It also contains equivalents for punctuation marks and provides symbols to point out letter groupings. Braille is read by moving the hand or hands from left to all along each line.
The virtual TalkBack braille keyboard which is integrated into the OS as part of the Android Accessibility Suite is available only in landscape orientation. Position of holding the device while using this feature plays a vital role - where your right-hand holds always the side of the phone with the USB charging port as shown below, a 6-key layout that represents the standard braille dots is overlaid:
- Tap on the dot 1 to type the letter “A.”
- Tap on the dots 1 and 2 to type the letter “B.”
- Tap on the dots 1 and 4 to type the letter “C.”
- Tap on the dots 1, 4, and 5 to type the letter “D.”
- Etc...
Google developed this feature in concurrence with braille developers and users. Accessing this new input method is as simple as switching keyboards. It can be used anywhere like your normal keyboard to add, delete, edit, text. The keyboard works fine even on social media sites for chatting and for typing emails etc. It supports Braille grade 1 and grade 2.
The keyboard is running on all devices that have Android 5.0 or higher. To enable Braille keyboard, go to Settings > Accessibility and select TalkBack. You can see the full step by step instructions on the Android Accessibility Help Website.
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