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Tag Archives: word completion
Onscreen keyboards and word prediction with screen readers: incompatibilities
Someone asked me about onscreen keyboards and keystroke or word echo software. There’s something about onscreen keyboards that screen readers don’t seem to like, at least if the onscreen keyboard includes word prediction or word completion. The common feature of … Continue reading
Acer A100 review, part 1: accessibility and input
A friend of mine sent me an Acer Iconia A100 tablet (16 GB) and stand for Christmas hoping I could use it; he’s a big Android fan. (Also, he felt bad that the Lilliput touchscreen didn’t last very long.) I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, assistive technology, onscreen keyboards, RSI, touchscreens, word completion, word prediction
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Multilingual word prediction: Virtual Keyboard Review
Post edited slightly to reflect program updates. After Google Scribe went, so did a source of free multilingual word prediction. So I went looking for another one. I forget how I found it, but I did find one: Virtual Keyboard.
Quick review: Project Possibility onscreen keyboard
Because I can’t sleep, I am playing with the onscreen keyboard from Project Possibility.
Reduce dwell click lag in Google Scribe
I mentioned in my review of Google Scribe that the ten second window for choosing a suggestion can be problematic in list view because of a possible lag in going between the arrow keys and Space or between a dwell … Continue reading
Google Scribe: great word prediction with word processing
UPDATE: Scribe is no longer a standalone page, nor does the bookmarklet appear to be available anymore since becoming a Blogger tool. I am leaving the review up as information.
Posted in Disability, Technology
Tagged assistive technology, Google Scribe, onscreen keyboards, word completion, word prediction
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Turbo Type with onscreen keyboards
I’d been under the impression you couldn’t use Turbo Type with onscreen keyboards at all. I was mistaken; Turbo Type works, for the most part, with the Hot Virtual Keyboard. (I should really edit my review of HVK now that … Continue reading
Dynamic Keyboard review: flexible, excellent for spelling
As I mentioned before, it is difficult to use a standard onscreen keyboard with the touchscreen because of the visual clutter. In order to write with the touchscreen, I needed something that would let me concentrate on the words entirely. … Continue reading
Turbo Type update: French
Turbo Type word completion/prediction has been updated. If you’re using English, there’s nothing new functionally. But if you know French, there’s now a dictionary for it, meaning people can switch among English, Romanian, and French completion in the same program … Continue reading
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Tagged abbreviation expansion, assistive technology, TurboType, word completion, word prediction
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How to get “smart punctuation” with word prediction/completion
This AutoHotkey script is a way to make punctuating more efficient when using word prediction or completion with automatic spacing enabled. Using this script, you don’t have to backspace in order to punctuate after predicting a word. When you press … Continue reading
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Tagged assistive technology, AutoHotkey, macros, turbo type, Typing Assistant, word completion, word prediction
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Hand to Mouth: Assistive Technology 