On Screen Braille
You can input six-dot or contracted braille directly on your screen giving you another option for writing on your device.
You can input six-dot or contracted braille directly on your screen giving you another option for writing on your device.
To turn on Braille Screen Input, go to Settings/Accessibility/VoiceOver/Braille/Braille Screen Input.
In order to use braille input, you must be familiar with un-contracted or contracted braille, be able to utilize a swipe gesture on your device, and be able to use the rotor gesture.
Change Braille Screen Input settings
Go to Settings/Accessibility/VoiceOver/Braille/Braille Screen Input and do any of the following:
Set six-dot or contracted braille as the default.
Reverse the dot positions for six-dot braille.
To view or edit the commands and gestures you can perform when Braille Screen Input is turned on, go to Settings/Accessibility/VoiceOver/Commands/Braille Screen Input.
Set the rotor to Braille Screen Input.
If you don't see Braille Screen Input in the rotor, go to Settings/Accessibility/VoiceOver/Rotor and select it from the list.
Place your device in one of the following positions:
Tabletop mode: Lay your device flat in front of you.
Screen away mode: Hold your device with the screen facing away so your fingers curl back to tap the screen.
Enter Braille characters by tapping the screen with one or more fingers at the same time.
Tip: To have VoiceOver read dots aloud, tap and hold the dots, when you hear the timer tones and announcement, release the dots.
To move the entry dots to match your natural finger positions, tap and lift your right three fingers all at once to position dots 4, 5, and 6, followed immediately by your left three fingers for dots 1, 2, and 3.
You can also use gestures to perform actions such as the following:
| Action | Gesture |
|---|---|
| Enter a space | Swipe right with one finger; in screen away mode, swipe to your right |
| Delete the previous character | Swipe left with one finger |
| Move to a new line | Swipe right with two fingers |
| Cycle through spelling suggestions | Swipe up or down with one finger |
| Enter a carriage return, or send a message (in Messages) | Swipe up with three fingers |
| Cycle through the braille modes | Swipe left or right with three fingers |
| Translate immediately (when contractions are turned on) | Swipe down with two fingers |
| Switch to the next keyboard | Swipe up with two fingers |
| To exit Braille Screen Input | Two-Finger Scrub, or adjust the rotor to another setting |
| Move to Left Split View App (iPad only) | Dot 3 + Dot 5 + Space bar |
| Move to Right Split View App (iPad only) | Dot 2 + Dot 6 + Space bar |
| Move to previous container (iPad only) | Dot 1 + Dot 7 + Space bar |
| Move to next container (iPad only) | Dot 4 + Dot 7 + Space bar |