{"id":1053,"date":"2012-07-03T09:26:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T13:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2012-07-09T12:04:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T16:04:49","slug":"flesky-typing-app-732012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Fleksy typing app, 7\/3\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Introducing Fleksy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Contributed by Joel Zimba, MDTAP Special Projects Coordinator<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hot on the heels of a virtual Braille keyboard typing app, which has yet to be released, comes yet another prospective means for blind users to quickly enter text.\u00a0 Similar to the Swipe keyboard on the Android platform, Fleksy makes educated guesses about what you actually meant to type.\u00a0 In short it is a more flexible &#8220;qwerty&#8221; keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>The latest edition of the Tech Doctor Podcast demonstrates this app, which is still in the beta testing phase.\u00a0 As demonstrated in the podcast, text entry is much faster than the current means of touch typing on the built-in iPhone keyboard. Fleksy shows off some innovative concepts, such as a sort of hybrid functionality, wherein the app functions differently depending on whether VoiceOver is running.\u00a0 There are several custom gestures, including lifting the phone to the ear to read the current text, and using the &#8220;rotor&#8221; gesture to access custom functionality.<\/p>\n<p>While the current cycle of beta testing appears to be closed, the Fleksy website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleksy.com\">http:\/\/www.fleksy.com<\/a>) gives further, if limited, information.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing and expected release dates are not yet available. A brief YouTube clip demonstrates how the final app may function:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9YP5goKA4dQ\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9YP5goKA4dQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Tech Doctor Podcast at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-carter.com\">http:\/\/www.dr-carter.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1053\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing Fleksy \u00a0Contributed by Joel Zimba, MDTAP Special Projects Coordinator Hot on the heels of a virtual Braille keyboard typing app, which has yet to be released, comes yet another prospective means for blind users to quickly enter text.\u00a0 Similar to the Swipe keyboard on the Android platform, Fleksy makes educated guesses about what you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}