Presented by Lucia Hasty, MA Braille Authority of North America Tactile Graphics Committee Chair March 3, 2010
Considerations for choosing a software Equipment you will use with Ease of learning software Power of software to do the task Compatibility
MS Word Draw OpenOffice Draw Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator CorelDraw
Tiger Designer for their embossers QuickTac- works with DBT and MegaDots TGD Pro (father of QuickTac) Talking Tactile Tablet Authoring Tool University of Washington’s Tactile Graphics Assistant
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University of Oregon Tactile Map Editor- designed for O&M maps and capsule paper production list/11.page list/11.page Accessible Graphing Calculator- View Plus Math Trax- NASA
Touch Graphics and Smith Kettlewell: Smart Pen projects- periodic table, subway maps, others in the works Wii for O&M A couple of refreshable braille surfaces for tactile graphics should be on market within 2 years