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"Braille Touch, a free app which simplifies Braille texting for the blind, aims to revamp keyboard possibilities for the mainstream smartphone market.
Georgia Tech's research team, spearheaded by Mario Romero, reports the Braille Touch app slashes costs for visually impaired smartphone users and could transform traditional mobile device typing.
Instead of relying on an expensive, bulky keyboard hook-up, Braille Touch works on a standard smartphone. It features six touchscreen buttons users press in patterns to signal the alphabet's letters, with the app announcing each letter so users immediately hear what they wrote.
It takes years to master reading Braille, but designers created the Braille Touch typing system for simplicity, and users can master the code in a matter of hours."
