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Issue when selecting text in MBraille
by Thomas Byskov Dalgaard April 19, 2026

April 19, 2026

Hi Harri! I think I’ve found a bug when editing text. I am unable to select text if the cursor is at the end of the line and I want to select from right to left. Here are the steps to reproduce: 1. Type the sentence: This is a test. 2. Move the cursor to the end of the buffer. 3. Hold down dot 3 and set the preview mode to words. 4. Then hold down dot 2 while swiping left. Expected behavior: MBraille should select "test", "is", "this". Observed behavior: MBraille provides no feedback, and the text does not appear to be selected. Best regards, Thomas Sendt fra min iPhone via BrailleSense U2/MBraille

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A question about gesture for inserting newline/linebreaks
by Thomas Byskov Dalgaard April 18, 2026

April 18, 2026

Hi fellow MBraille testers! Just a question about inserting line breaks. Which gesture do you use most often? Personally, I find that I primarily use the two-finger flick to the right, rather than the previous MBraille gesture. Do TalkBack and VoiceOver share the same gestures regarding line breaks? It might be that one gesture would be sufficient. Best regards, Thomas Sendt fra min iPhone via BrailleSense U2/MBraille

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A few notes for 0.9.30
by Thomas Byskov Dalgaard April 18, 2026

April 18, 2026

Hi Harri! Thanks for the clarification about the command history feature. However I have found a bug, if I type a message and use the history gesture, the content is not pasted into the text field as expected. So I have to start the command mode for the action to take effect. Hope you can fix this. Note I still find selfvoicing very slow when editing text. It is much faster with VoiceOver running. What do you recommend in general, normal screenreader, or selfvoicing mode? Best regards Thomas Sendt fra min iPhone via BrailleSense U2/MBraille

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audio ducking
by Keith Rempel April 16, 2026

April 16, 2026

Hi, I find I am getting the new MBraille audio ducking activated with certain things, with self voicing disabled. It is possibly worse with 0.929 than with 0.928. I just tried regressing to .928. I think the new line sounds are activating the audio ducking, and a few other things. in 0.929 the dropbox update thing seems to be hitting me every time the app gains focus, which kicks in the audio ducking. So have yet to experience voiceover with no ducking in 0.929. Can get it in 0.928 until I do a new line. Keith

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v0.9.30 further wax and polish
by Harri Pasanen April 16, 2026

April 16, 2026

Hi everybody, This one again tightens the screws around self voicing, in an attempt to make it more responsive and faster. Some other fixes as well. Let me know how it goes! Best regards, Harri

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for non-english users, Mbraille's Home Screen
by Jean-Philippe Rykiel April 15, 2026

April 15, 2026

Hi all non-English users, I would like to raise a small point that may disturb non-technically minded users. Let's take my case as an example, my iPhone is set to French. On Mbrile's home screen, voiceover speaks French but with the English voice. I don't know how that happens but I noticed that when voiceover'slanguage recognition is on, which it is by default, voiceover may sometime; choosethe wrong voice. In the case of Mbrile's home screen, I don't know if something can be done about this. Thanks as always Harry for your wonderful work. Cheers JPR http://www.jprykiel.com http://soundcloud.com/ryksounet https://www.youtube.com/c/jprykiel Http://www.facebook.com/jprykiel

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where is the dictionary saved?
by Jean-Philippe Rykiel April 14, 2026

April 14, 2026

Hello Harry, I wonder where the dictionary is saved. I'm asking this because I would like to be able to copy the dictionary to the future official "MBraille" version. I'm now synced to Dropbox with "MBraille beta", but the enly file I see is the alias.mb file. How can I transfer my dictionary which I rebuilt from scratch in the beta version? Cheers JPR! (crying) http://www.jprykiel.com http://soundcloud.com/ryksounet https://www.youtube.com/c/jprykiel Http://www.facebook.com/jprykiel

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v0.9.29 paying respects to legacy MBraille
by Harri Pasanen April 13, 2026

April 13, 2026

Hi everybody, v0.9.29 is about to land with further polishing and tuning. I took another look at legacy MBraille input handling, and noticed some differences which could result in perceived lesser accuracy in the new version. This release should have it aligned much closer. Few other fixes as well, and a "hidden" sound customization feature to change the click sound. Best regards, Harri

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Typing accuracy getting worse during a session
by Harri Pasanen April 12, 2026

April 12, 2026

Hi, I think some of you mentioned that the typing accuracy would get worse after a while, where keyboard reset would then help. Does everyone feel this is the case? Those who do, can you quantify it somehow, like after how many words? (MBraille will tell you how many words you have typed if you hold 1 and swipe up with two fingers) Best regards, Harri

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Re: v0.9.28 is there with more polish
by Jean-Philippe Rykiel April 11, 2026

April 11, 2026

Hi Harri. You wrote: I plan to migrate the old alias.mb, user dictionaries to new version automatically without user interaction. I've rebuilt mine from scratch on this new beta version. I'm afraid automatic migration could be a problem for me and maybe others who did the same What to do in this case? Cheers, JPR http://www.jprykiel.com http://soundcloud.com/ryksounet https://www.youtube.com/c/jprykiel Http://www.facebook.com/jprykiel > Le 10 avr. 2026 à 20:27, Harri Pasanen via MBraille-Test <mbraille-test(a)lists.mpaja.com> a écrit : > > Hi, > > There a lot to unpack here, so I'll answer each point inline below > > On Friday, April 10th, 2026 at 12:20 AM, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard via MBraille-Test <mbraille-test(a)lists.mpaja.com> wrote: >> Hi again Harri! >> >> Ok, I may have an odd man out phone here. >> If I enable both clicks and vibration while typing I notice a bigger lag again. As soon as both of these were turned on, I noticed the lag and that my mistakes got worse even though I haven't changed anything. It felt like MBraille didn't catch my gestures and swipes. I know I typed quite fast, but it was not a problem until both of these settings were turned on again. >> >> I wonder if I am trying to push MBraille too much here, but I really enjoy clicks and vibration feedback while typing. >> >> Ok, tried to turn off clicks and only use haptic/vibration feedback while typing: >> No issue. This is strange. >> Went back again and turned clicks on... Now strange things show up: >> * No clicks while typing/ inserting newline. >> * No sound for entering/exiting command mode. >> Oops, what have I broken here? > > Some kind of bug is manifesting here. I'll add it to my list. > > >> The debug setting is still not working for me as expected. VoiceOver will see it as a slider, but nothing changes when I swipe up/down or turn the setting off before trying to change it. > > For me the slider works when using VoiceOver, with a caveat. I need to swipe down or up 10 times before it changes on my iPad. I will fix this. > >> And the settings screen failing on me becomes more and more of an issue while testing MBraille. When VoiceOver gets stuck I can get focus back if I restart VoiceOver, but it really adds up time while trying to focus on testing swipe sensitivity settings or adjusting other settings to test the different parts of MBraille. > > There is an underlying framework bug. I already submitted one bug report upstream, but that was rejected because I did not produce a minimal reproducible test case. I will try to do that. > >> I also notice something that I cannot reproduce consistently, but it feels like VoiceOver sometimes looses focus, when I for example try to go back to the main menu with four finger swipe or the scrub gesture. In some cases self voicing says: Main menu, and VoiceOver waits a little before focus perhaps is at braille editor, but in other cases it will announce: braille keyboard, as if the keyboard area still is in "fake focus" >> Perhaps this gives you ideas to the settings screen as well, where focus gets lost and VoiceOver becomes unusable until I reload the screenreader entirely. > > This may indeed be related to the settings screen bug. > >> Dropbox syncing: >> I saved a document yesterday and each time I open MBraille ever since, it reminds me that this document needs to be synced to Dropbox, but I haven't done anything to that document since I saved it. Is this expected behaviour? > > Not expected, but a known issue. Already in my ToDo list. I think Google Drive and OneDrive are also affected. > >> I know you are getting close to a official release therefor a few questions, that are not important as of now, but will be quite important before an update to App Store or Google Play gets out: >> * How will alias.mb be merged from MBraille legacy? Mine got way too big, but I can fix it by copy-paste if nothing else can be done, but I know quite a few users who cannot do this without assistance. >> * How will old MBraille settings be merged? >> * Can you share some informations about how users can get in touch? Before you used a regular mailling list. Is this still a plan? >> * If users used MBraille legacy with Dropbox, will their files be merged to the new MBraille directory, or will you provide some steps instead? >> * Can you share some thoughts of the price for MBraille? >> > > I'm transitioning to a subscription model: €2/month or €20/year (yearly saves €4) with 1 month free trial. Existing users who purchased the app are grandfathered with lifetime access. > > So on iOS MBraille 26 will be just an upgrade for existing users, restore purchases will make it work. I plan to migrate the old alias.mb, user dictionaries to new version automatically without user interaction. > > There already is a new mailing list available, with currently 0 subscribers: > https://lists.mpaja.com/mailman3/lists/mbraille.lists.mpaja.com/ > > I will also do a proper website and contact form there. > > Best regards, > Harri > _______________________________________________ > MBraille-Test mailing list -- mbraille-test(a)lists.mpaja.com > To unsubscribe send an email to mbraille-test-leave(a)lists.mpaja.com

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