Raised Guide for Phone Keypad

By OldBear, 9 July, 2020

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Hardware and Accessories

I'm thinking of making a raised guide to lay over the iPhone screen that will make using the phone keypad quicker and easier. I used to have something like this on a microwave oven back in the 90s, just a sheet of plastic with holes punched out where the numbers were. A sighted person made it for me though.
Does anyone have ideas for materials that would work with the screen, and methods for constructing something like this without having to ask a sighted person for help?
I'm not sure of the best way to transpose the exact position of the buttons on the screen to the guide, otherwise a paper card with holes in it would even work.

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By OldBear

2 years 6 months ago

Thanks. I will consider that.
I'm still going to try to figure out how to make a card with holes punched out for the phone buttons because I want it to be easily removable and out of the way, unlike a screen protecter. I'm taking measurements of the keypad to make a template.
Also, if it were made of something like an index card with holes over the numbers, which will only conduct to the screen where the numbers are, I think I would be less apt to goof up the numbers, unlike feeling for a raised dot.
I have to use a service over the phone that requires several long numbers to be entered, as well as several numbered menus. It's very frustrating not having physical buttons.

By Bobby

2 years 6 months ago

Have you heared about the RiVo Keyboard? It has the size of a credit card. It is connected via bluetooth to your iPhone. It could be the device that could save your problem.