Juliet Pro 60
Juliet Pro 60 has a 40-character-wide embossing line and 60-character-per-second speed. It also includes two other standard features: Single Sheet Tractors and ET Speaks, an innovative speech system.
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Juliet Pro
The Juliet Pro features extra-wide 56-character embossing line Brailles two sides at once at up to 55 characters per second. It also comes with Single Sheet Tractors and ET Speaks, an innovative speech system, as standard equipment.
Blind man will sue American Bar Association
A federal lawsuit will be filed against the American Bar Association on behalf of a blind man arguing the required Law School Admissions Test is biased against the visually impaired and should not be required of blind law school applicants.
The suit will be filed on May 24 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Attorney Richard Bernstein said.
Bernstein, who is blind, was the last law student to be admitted to law school 15 years ago without taking the LSAT.
Juliet Classic
Juliet Classic prints top quality Braille on both sides of a page up to 56 characters wide and speed of up to 55 characters a second. Juliet Classic's standard features include: , , Regular (12.5 dots per inch) and high-resolution (17 DPI) graphics , Dynamic Braille Scaling for different Braille sizes (even within a document) , 6 or 8-dot Braille , Multi-Copy up to 99 copies of a document,
IIA studying if public bldgs are disabled-friendly
Members of the Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) have begun a survey of all government buildings, as per High Court directives, to check if they are barrier-free and convenient for the differently-abled.
Gemini Print and Braille Embosser
Gemini Print and Braille Embosser produces print with Braille in one simultaneous pass, fulfilling a long-time dream of Braille producers everywhere. That’s not all that’s special about Gemini. The next thing you may notice about Gemini might be what it doesn't do— make much noise! Gemini is so extraordinarily quiet you won’t need to exile it to a closet or a sound-muffling cabinet.
ET
Producing top-quality Braille at 60 characters per second, ET's shorter 40-character line makes full use of standard-width Braille paper. ET is a speedy and economical choice to get professional-looking, space-saving interpoint.
Blind cruisers get to 'smell the ocean and feel the wind'
This spring, Patty and Terry Horvath took 46 blind travelers on a Caribbean cruise.
The owners of Best Cruises & Tours in Grand Blanc, Mich., let participants pay $20 a week in installments for months or years to pay for the trip. They subsidized seven volunteers to accompany the group. They arranged special shore excursions on Nassau, St. Thomas and St. Martin. They kept the price as low as they could, pairing up the mostly solo travelers in double rooms.
Their biggest contribution? Serving a completely passed-over market — blind travelers on a budget.
Braille Place
BraillePlace, with speeds of nearly 300 characters per second and a 45-character line, is serious productivity for serious Braille publishing. BraillePlace connects to any computer through its parallel or serial ports and includes ET Speaks to vocalize controls and do other audio tasks.e
Braille Express 150
Built in a durable, transportable case, interpoint Braille Express 150 has a huge 400-page memory for your largest jobs and embosses at 150 characters per second. In production, it is estimated that a Braille Express 150, used for five hours a day, can produce about a half-million pages in a year.
India to host blind cricket Twenty20 World Cup
India is set to host the inaugural blind cricket Twenty20 World Cup in December.
David Townley, president of the World Blind Cricket Council, says the group voted during a two-day meeting in the United Arab Emirates that ended Sunday to hold the tournament in Bangalore starting on Dec. 3. Its schedule has yet to be finalized but the tournament will last a maximum of 14 days.
He says council members Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Bangladesh, Nepal, West Indies and England will participate.
Braille Express 100
Built in a durable, transportable case, interpoint Braille Express 100 has a huge 400-page memory for your largest jobs and embosses at 100 characters per second. In production, it is estimated that a Braille Express 100, used for five hours a day can produce over 350,000 pages in a year.
Wheelchair uses 3D to ‘see’ for visually impaired
Research on an electric wheelchair that can sense it´s environment and transmit information to a person who is visually impaired, has been tested at Lulea University of Technology.
The wheelchair has a joystick for steering and a haptic robot that acts as a virtual white cane. The “sighted” wheelchair has been developed by Kalevi Hyyppa and his team at the university.
“This may be important aids for the visually impaired who are wheelchair users. Many have already been in touch with me and asked if they can come for a test drive,” says Kalevi Hyyppä.
Book Maker
Built in a durable, transportable case, interpoint BookMaker has a huge 400-page memory for your largest jobs and embosses at 80 characters per second. In production, it is estimated that a BookMaker, used for five hours a day can produce around a quarter-million pages in a year.a
Chart Explainer
Chart Explainer is a software environment for automatically generating natural-language summaries of charts and ta
Mega Dots
MegaDots is a mature DOS braille translator with powerful features for the volume transcriber and producer. Its straightforward, style-based system and automated features let you create great braille with only a few keystrokes
KeySoft 7.2
HumanWare will be releasing KeySoft 7.2 on 6 September, making your BrailleNote or VoiceNote even more useful and
GOODFEEL Lite
The GOODFEEL Lite Version gives you all the features of the full product but limits you to just one of these formats: instrumental music, vocal parts or keyboard., , GOODFEEL converts music files to braille. It transcribes instrumental parts, vocal solos, keyboard works and full orchestral scores from beginner through the advanced intermediate levels. , , With GOODFEEL® combined with a few mainstream products, any sighted musician can prepare a braille score without needing to be a Braille music specialist.
Practice, not loss of sight, improves sense of touch in the blind
New research from McMaster may answer a controversial question: do the blind have a better sense of touch because the brain compensates for vision loss or because of heavy reliance on their fingertips?
The study, published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Neuroscience, suggests daily dependence on touch is the answer.
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