Program to learn Touch Typing?

[Quentin Christensen]

Hi everyone,

Someone asked me recently if there was an accessible program to learn touch typing.  Either a program which works with NVDA, or one which is self voiced.

Is anyone familiar with the options available to recommend these days please?

Kind regards

Quentin

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[Ryan Mann]

Talking Typing Teacher is self-voicing. If I remember right, it costs around $100.  We use that program at the training center I work for.  APH Typer on-line is free.  I've heard of one called Type Ability that is supposed to work with JAWS, but I never used it. 

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On Oct 12, 2025, at 6:58 PM, Quentin Christensen <que...@nvaccess.org> wrote:



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[Mobeen Iqbal]

Hi.

Azabat touch typing tutor maybe worth a look, it's also fully accessible. More info is at:

http://www.azabat.co.uk/typing.html

Cheers,

Mo.

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[Sean Randall]

Still going strong

[Typer Online](https://typer.aphtech.org/)

 

Sean.

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[Quentin Christensen]

So it seems to be!  That is the program we used to use when I was teaching - though back then it was a local install, standalone program - I only just discovered they now have an online version (which seems to be free?)

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[Badih Zeinoun]

Good day for you Quentin and all from Lebanon!

Hope that you all are doing well. I've been reading this thread since
your first message last Sunday and I estimate that all those programs
were written prior to iPhone/iPad and such products alike. Couldn't
understand why at that time touch typing was used. Could anyone explain?

Best regards,

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[Sean Randall]

Hi Badih

Touch-typing is something I was taught from a young age as a way of inputting data quickly. I can type at about 120 words per minute, far quicker than I can Braille (my phone screen input is about 70). It's a muscle memory system and something you don't need to see to do, which is why I presume it was given to blind people. It's certainly my primary input method across work and leisure.

Sean.

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[Badih Zeinoun]

Good afternoon Sean from Lebanon!

Thanks for the explanation, do I understand that you wrote your reply
to my mail using the touch typing method? I'm totally blind and when I
was at my elementary school I was using my perkins brailler to braille
and before the perkins brailler I was using the ordinary slates. Do I
understand that you were brailling when you were young using the touch
typing method? Do you think that if I accessed the APH touch typing
program I can manage and train myself on using it? Is there anyway to
Braille with touch typing using the perkins brailler? When I went to
ordinary school, I mean schools with sighted individuals, I was using
the ordinary typewriter. Now I'm using my desktop system to reply to
you with the external keyboard connected to type.

Have a nice evening,

[Rob Armstrong]

Touch typing usually refers to typing on a typewriter or computer keyboard.

Rob

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[Badih Zeinoun]

Good morning Rob from Lebanon!

Thanks for the clarification, will access then such programs to see if
it is possible to train myself on using them.

Best regards,

[Avraham Pitts]

Hello everyone,

This is certainly a thread I am interested in.

I slowly lost my vision over the last eight or so years and it got to the point that I had to learn braille to read and write.

Although I typed hundred pages in my life (before my vision deteriorated)  I never learned touch typing.

Right now I would prefer to use the braille display to input into Word, but I have problems correcting what I write.

There seems to be many settings in NVDA that might help me, but I don't have any coach and I have to dig on my own.

the braille Extander add-on seems to be out of date?

Ofcours, I would like to learn touch typing but I have my hands full with braille and I don't look forward to the start up time.

Can you give any tips on how to use my orbit reader 20+ effectively with NVDA and Word.

Best regards

avraham 

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