2. Presented by Lucia Hasty, MA Braille Authority of North America Tactile Graphics Committee Chair March 3, 2010

3.  Considerations for choosing a software  Equipment you will use with  Ease of learning software  Power of software to do the task  Compatibility

4.  MS Word Draw  OpenOffice Draw  Adobe Photoshop  Adobe Illustrator  CorelDraw

5.  Tiger Designer for their embossers www.viewplus.comwww.viewplus.com  QuickTac- works with DBT and MegaDots www.duxburysystems.com www.duxburysystems.com  TGD Pro (father of QuickTac) http://www.duxburysystems.com/tgd.asp?choice=pro http://www.duxburysystems.com/tgd.asp?choice=pro  Talking Tactile Tablet Authoring Tool www.touchgraphics.com www.touchgraphics.com  University of Washington’s Tactile Graphics Assistant http://tactilegraphics.cs.washington.edu/ http://tactilegraphics.cs.washington.edu/

6.  PictureBraille http://www.pentronics.com.au/index_files/ http://www.pentronics.com.au/index_files/ PictureBraille.htm

7.  University of Oregon Tactile Map Editor- designed for O&M maps and capsule paper production http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu:8988/jforum/posts/ http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu:8988/jforum/posts/  list/11.page list/11.page  Accessible Graphing Calculator- View Plus www.viewplus.com www.viewplus.com  Math Trax- NASA http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/mathtrax/ http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/mathtrax/

8. Touch Graphics and Smith Kettlewell:  Smart Pen projects- periodic table, subway maps, others in the works  Wii for O&M www.touchgraphics.comwww.touchgraphics.com A couple of refreshable braille surfaces for tactile graphics should be on market within 2 years

9.  www.tactilegraphics.org www.tactilegraphics.org  Lucia@tactilegraphics.org