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ClickType Help
For some people, typing on a traditional keyboard may be difficult. However, if they can press a single key, then they are able to write text with ClickType. By cycling through rows of letters and predicted words, the user can select them by just pressing the space bar and type out full sentences.
A single space bar click will start sequentially highlighting grid rows. When the row containing the desired character or word is highlighted, another space bar click will select that row and start sequentially highlighting characters. Press space bar again when the character or word is highlighted. Selecting the first character of any row (⇡) will go back to highlighting rows.
Each row of letters contain one or many suggested words at the end, based on letters in the current word and/or words that came previously. When a suggested word has been selected, the active position will be moved to the first of the new suggested words.
The last row contains punctuation and function keys. Selecting caps lock (⇪) (bottom right) reveals more characters, as well as options to slow down («) or speed up (») the selector timing speed. Selecting caps lock also reveals the clear all key (×). After selecting the clear all key, it changes to a confirmation key, which needs to be selected before all the text will clear.
It is not possible to type directly into the text box, however the keys in the grid can be clicked with a mouse to select.
The row at the very bottom of the screen contains symbols showing what function keys represent, as well as the current selector timing speed.
Providing you're not using ClickType in an incognito window, and you do not clear the cache, the text content should persist between browser sessions.
The predicted words shown are based on a combination of sentence order logic and user history. Common sentences are saved and used to show predictions.
Word predictions are available only in English.
ClickType has been designed to work with the physical Bluetooth button Puck.js. Once connected from the menu bar, you can use the Puck.js button rather than the keyboard's space bar to write. This allows you to be further from the computer keyboard, and may be more comfortable to use.
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