After working with a user group of visually impaired on earlier version’s of braille keyboards, it was highlighted that there is no comprehensive way of typing into a smartphone. Current software solutions are too slow, do not give good tactile feedback or just are a pain to type with. Even though there are many soft keyboards available, we couldn’t find someone in our study group who uses any of the soft keyboards.
- Lyle Rodericks and Vijay Varada
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Our proposed solution will be a device with 6 buttons to symbolize the braille alphabet.
Pressing these buttons in specific combinations will register as different alphabets.
The device will use a USB-HID chip that will be recognized as a keyboard on a USB port so that alphabets can be sent as keystrokes to the host device.
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KrF9IJwGso[/youtube]
- lyle@gmail.com
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