THE WORLD AT YOUR
FINGERTIPS WITH BRAILLE/TACTILE GRAPHICS:
Braille/Tactile graphics such as images like maps,
diagrams, pictures, graphs, etc., can now be created that provide pictorial
support to the braille text. The blind can also have access to graphical
information in speech as he/she runs his/her finger on the graphic image.
They can also make free hand drawings and get a braille printout of the
same. With the help of braille/tactile graphic software and Index Braille
Printers you can provide a better quality of education to blind students. For
example:
To
K.G.
children you can teach shapes and sizes of fruits, vegetables, birds, animals,
plants, toys, objects, etc or even Braille alphabets.
TIGER TACTILE AND BRAILLE GRAPHICS EMBOSSER
Tiger is a break through innovation in the world of tactile diagram production, thus making it possible to provide pictorial support to braille text.
Its main features include:
Mass production of large size tactile graphics
Embossing is done on ordinary braille paper and plastic sheets easily available in India
Provides tactile diagrams to blind schools and institutions at low and affordable prices
TIGER Advantage has immense application possibilities in areas like
Education:
Braille World Atlas, Alphabet Teaching Books, Children’s Books, Maps of Countries, Charts of Different Objects, Anatomy Charts, Diagrams, Graphs/ Images to support school/college textbooks in subject like geography, geometry, sciences, astronomy, economics, computers, etc..
Recreation:
Word Games, Board Games, Playing Cards, Story Books, Pictures, etc.
Independent Living/ Daily Needs:
Labels on food packets/ medicines/ cassettes, Greeting cards, Overlays on appliances, Tags, Name Plates, Sign Boards, Calendars,etc.
Computer Education:
Diagrams of graphical interface of windows as viewed on the monitor screen, Overlays for the keyboard, etc.
Mobility:Layout plans for training the visually impaired.
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Simple and easy to operate.
Produces high quality tactile images and free-hand images on special paper in a few seconds.
Uses heat sensitive paper (Flexi/ Capsule/Swell paper)
Audio indication to let you know when to start a new sheet.
Images are accurate and easy to feel and understand.
Facilitates easy learning of maps, charts, diagrams, pictures and graphs.
Helps the blind to form a mental picture of shapes, sizes, objects, etc.
Helpful in mobility training and teaching of braille to young children.
NOMAD MENTOR
AUDIO TACTILE PROCESSOR:
Nomad is a touch
sensitive pad that can be connected to a PC running the MENTOR software.
This enables drawing of shapes/ diagrams on a piece of paper placed on the pad,
the tracing is reproduced by the MENTOR software on the computer screen which
can then be embossed. The resulting braille/tactile graphic can be placed
back on the Nomad pad for further work.
Once a graphic
image is traced, some of its areas can be marked as having spoken text
attachments. For example, in a map of the world, the outline of India
could be traced, and the text "India" typed in as the text attachment.
Two levels of attachments are possible for any single point on the graphic:
the first level is a short sentence identifying the point, the second level is
the name of a text file, of unlimited length, which can give as much information
about that point as is required.
When all areas
and points on the graphic have been annotated in this way, the computer version
of the graphic can be saved for later use, or directly used in conjunction with
the Nomad pad. A blind child, for example, could feel the raised dot
shapes of the Map of the World and then, by pressing on any particular spot,
have spoken out loud by the pad's speech synthesizer, the text attachment - for
example "India".
Ideal for teaching subjects like geography, geometry, sciences, etc., mobility training and computer education to the blind for understanding graphical images on the screen in the windows environment.
The TGD software enables sighted, low vision and blind people to do one or more of the following:
Create tactile drawings
Trace any image
Convert photographs, clipart, scanned files for embossing or print to capsule-paper
Create and listen to multi-media tactile audio Images (maps, plans, drawings, graphs)
Listen to real time trip previews off any map or plan once prepared for TGD access
Use a Braille character recognition self-teaching program and much more.
Specially treated heat sensitized paper suitable for creation of tactile images/ drawings by using a china marker or a soft lead pencil or even zeroxing the diagram on the same or taking a print out on the paper using an inkjet printer. Than it is passed through PIAF Tactile Image Maker or any other heat fuser and you get raised tactile diagram, which a blind person can easily, understand by running his fingers along the same. Available in sizes of A4 and A3 in packets of 100 each.
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