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This (T9) was incidentally a great accessibility feature for folks with limited vision. My mom is mostly blind and was able to text my brother and I without her

This (T9) was incidentally a great accessibility feature for folks with limited vision. My mom is mostly blind and was able to text my brother and I without her giant magnifying glass, often faster than we could reply. Today, for better or worse, she largely uses speech to text.

kqr 3y ago
What GP describes is not T9. The thing known as T9 is a predictive algorithm based on a compressed dictionary that generates words from single presses on each key. If you triple-tap 2 with T9 you get "cab", not C.
- bastawhiz 3y ago
  I stand corrected on the name. My mom used what they described.
- chgs 3y ago
  With normal pre t9, typing cab was a bit of a pain, 222222 if I remember the “end of character” code right. It was more accurate than typifying on an iPhone with predictive text though.
SoftTalker 3y ago
Yes and every middle- and high-school kid with a "dumb" cell phone could text without looking, holding the phone under the desk or in a coat pocket and using T9 code.