I'm a blind person and have used this feature on iPhone for years. It's just so, so much faster than anything else out there. Not as fast as a physical qwerty,

I'm a blind person and have used this feature on iPhone for years. It's just so, so much faster than anything else out there. Not as fast as a physical qwerty, but close. For people living in the U.S. who have learned english grade 2 braille (basically characters that let you type common combinations of letters quickly), it's probably even faster. Using the touch-based qwerty with a screenreader is doable, but very, very slow. To explain some of your concerns, yes, it reads aloud the letters you type, and reads whole words after a space. You have some basic editing gestures, like delete character or delete word. If you need more, you go out of the braille screen input mode, edit and then go back, that's jhow it works on iOS, at least. btw. This feature wasn't invented by Apple. The first app that had this was called M Braille, and it was pretty expensive. It was rather inefficient, as you had to tpype the text in the app, copy it out and paste, as iOS didn't have external keyboard support back then. People still preferred that over using the qwerty though. Then, when iOS8 became a thing, M Braille was essentially sherlocked, as the feature had became part of iOS itself, and it was so much easier to use.