JF Mezei

This isn't for me. But curious about this.


Could an ipad be configured with some app that presents a huge keyboard
so that older people with speech impediment (as a result of a stroke)
could type in sentences and have them spoken out ?

Is there an App for that ?

or are the keyboards fixed in size and unable to be scaled to take up
almost all of the screen to make for very big keys.

Todd Allcock

At 07 Dec 2011 00:26:49 -0500 JF Mezei wrote:
> This isn't for me. But curious about this.
>
>
> Could an ipad be configured with some app that presents a huge keyboard
> so that older people with speech impediment (as a result of a stroke)
> could type in sentences and have them spoken out ?
>
> Is there an App for that ?
>
> or are the keyboards fixed in size and unable to be scaled to take up
> almost all of the screen to make for very big keys.


AFAIK, the system keyboard can't be altered systemwide, but a "Stephen
Hawking" app could certainly create and display a different keyboard to
be used in that app only*.


*Subject to app store approval, of course, which does reject apps for
straying outside of Apple's "Human Interface Guidelines".

Jolly Roger

In article <4edef919$0$6589$c3e8da3$b1356c67@news.astraweb.co m>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> This isn't for me. But curious about this.
>
>
> Could an ipad be configured with some app that presents a huge keyboard
> so that older people with speech impediment (as a result of a stroke)
> could type in sentences and have them spoken out ?
>
> Is there an App for that ?
>
> or are the keyboards fixed in size and unable to be scaled to take up
> almost all of the screen to make for very big keys.

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Wes Groleau

On 12-07-2011 01:01, Todd Allcock wrote:
> *Subject to app store approval, of course, which does reject apps for
> straying outside of Apple's "Human Interface Guidelines".

Rejecting an app designed to help disabled people
might be considered a failure to support human
interfacing. :-)

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Salut JF

In article <4edef919$0$6589$c3e8da3$b1356c67@news.astraweb.co m>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> Could an ipad be configured with some app that presents a huge keyboard

comp.mobile.ipad exists

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Todd Allcock

At 07 Dec 2011 23:47:40 -0500 Wes Groleau wrote:
> On 12-07-2011 01:01, Todd Allcock wrote:
> > *Subject to app store approval, of course, which does reject apps for
> > straying outside of Apple's "Human Interface Guidelines".
>
> Rejecting an app designed to help disabled people
> might be considered a failure to support human
> interfacing. :-)
>

Agreed. I'm just suggesting that this type of app would probably need
(and warrant) an exception to Apple's (quite understandable) desire to
keep a consistent look and feel among apps.

DevilsPGD

In message <jbmvjo$gvo$1@dont-email.me> someone claiming to be Todd
Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> typed:

>AFAIK, the system keyboard can't be altered systemwide, but a "Stephen
>Hawking" app could certainly create and display a different keyboard to
>be used in that app only*.
>
>*Subject to app store approval, of course, which does reject apps for
>straying outside of Apple's "Human Interface Guidelines".

Custom keyboards have already been done by a number of applications, be
it Wolfram Alpha which adds additional keys above the standard keyboard
to iSSH which creates a smaller keyboard to cram more keys into the same
space.

You also wouldn't necessary be limited to the App Store as a
distribution method, if the goal is just to distribute applications on
hospital supplied iPads, the target market for something like this could
easily use the internal corporate distribution method (which is
basically a special type of developer account that doesn't have a 100
device limit, but instead costs dramatically more and has other
licensing limitations)

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