[accessibleimage] Re: TTT and products

Hi Lisa,

Thanks for mentioning these projects.  One correction (actually an apology):
MBoss is not quite ready for downloading, it will be done soon, and I will
post an announcement here first. Also, there's another really cool project
shaping up that list readers may find interesting.  We are just finishing a
demonstration version of an Illustrated Digital Talking Book, based on
Noreen Grice's Touch the Sun. It uses the same images that were in Noreen's
book, but rather than read the text in Braille, you place tactile overlay
sheet on a TTT and then navigate through the text by pressing the right and
left arrows to go forward or back.  Like in DAISY books, you can also press
the up and down arrows to change the navigation level (the increments you
move when you press the right or left arrow), which can be set to chapter,
paragraph, sentence, word or letter.  When you want to explore the pictures,
you do that by touching lightly, then pressing down on any part you want to
hear audio description for.  You can also hook up a Braille display to the
computer, if you prefer to read the text that way.  We will be demonstrating
this at CSUN next week.  For more information on the project, go to
http://www.touchgraphics.com/DAISY.htm

Also, if anyone wants to read an in-depth article about the mapping project,
you can find a pdf file at
http://www.touchgraphics.com/publications/BJVI-Final.pdf, or a text version
at http://www.touchgraphics.com/publications/BJVI-Final.txt



-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Yayla [mailto:lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:03 AM
To: accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [accessibleimage] TTT and products

Hi,
Just having a look at Touch Graphics site and there were some very
interesting products. MBoss is a free program for preparing tactile
graphics to go along with the TTT and Tmaps a cooperation between Touch
Graphics and Smith Kettelwell Eye Research Institute for production of
maps on the fly.
http://www.touchgraphics.com/Mboss.htm
http://www.touchgraphics.com/tmap.htm
Very interesting.
Best,
Lisa
Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter 
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx

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