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Title: Tap wearable keyboard gains VoiceOver support
Post by: HCK on May 13, 2018, 04:05:22 pm
Tap wearable keyboard gains VoiceOver support

The discreet one-handed wearable keyset makes it possible to have a keyboard where you normally can't and now it supports VoiceOver on iPhone for the visually impaired.

I've just discovered the joy of using a chorded keyboard in the form of Tap, which is a set of rings that read your finger gestures and assigns them to a specific letter or number. It's only been on the market for less than a year and it's already picking up steam to become a major player in the alternative keyboard community. Thanks to the recent update, which includes support for VoiceOver controls, it's also poised to be a superior replacement for a tactile keyboard for the visually impaired.

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I recently sat down with Tap's creator and co-founder power-couple Sabrina Kemeny and Dovid Schick. They explained to me how Tap works, let me try out some of the rudimentary lessons, and showed off Tap being used as a controller while VoiceOver was enabled on an iPhone.

The idea behind Tap is to allow people...

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