Hi all, Virtual tactile display is an alternative to TTT. Has anybody tried the Virtouch VT Player? Can you add sound/speech, so you can identify an object on a virtual surface both by feel (with tactile mouse) and by hearing (e.g. with object's label spoken).? Cheers from Chiswick, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "L. Penny Rosenblum" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:10 PM Subject: Talking Tactile Tablet Authoring Tool > --=====================_270061007==.ALT > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > Hi Folks, > > I'm new to your listserv. I wanted to first introduce myself and > then tell you about a very exciting project that will interest you if you > are visually impaired or work with people who are visually impaired. I'm a > low vision person myself who prepares teachers of visually impaired > children at the University of Arizona. About 2 years ago I met a man named > Steve Landau who owns Touch Graphics Company. Touch Graphics has begun > work on a sophisticated Authoring Tool that will allow teachers of blind > and visually impaired students to create their own talking tactile pictures > for the talking tactile tablet, a new computer peripheral device. The > Talking Tactile Tablet, better known as the TTT, is an innovative device > that plugs into the USB port of a computer. With the Authoring Tool > software package simple to complex graphics with audio capabilities can be > created in just a matter of minutes. > Under a 2 year grant from the National Institute for Disability > and Rehabilitation Research, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative > Services of the United States Department of Education Touch Graphics > Company will be giving away 75 TTTs and the Authoring Tool software > package. A contest is being held April 1 to July 31, 2004. To learn more > about the TTT and to enter the contest visit the web site: > http://www.ttt-at.com/ We have a demo. of the TTT and Authoring Tool that > will show you the power of this new and exciting tool. > As a person with a visual impairment myself and as someone who > prepares teachers, I think the TTT is really going to enhance access to > tactile graphics for children and adults with visual impairments. I'd be > happy to share more information with any of you. Please feel free to > contact me at [log in to unmask] > > Penny > > > > L. Penny Rosenblum > University of Arizona > 520-621-1223 (office) > 520-621-3821 (fax) > Visit my web page at http://www.ed.arizona.edu/rosenblum > --=====================_270061007==.ALT > Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > <html> > <font face=3D"Times New Roman, Times">Hi Folks,<br><br> > <x-tab> </x-tab>I'm new to > your listserv. I wanted to first introduce myself and then tell you about > a very exciting project that will interest you if you are visually > impaired or work with people who are visually impaired. I'm a low > vision person myself who prepares teachers of visually impaired children > at the University of Arizona. About 2 years ago I met a man named > Steve Landau who owns Touch Graphics Company. > <x-tab> </x-tab>Touch Graphics has begun work on a > sophisticated Authoring Tool that will allow teachers of blind and > visually impaired students to create their own talking tactile pictures > for the talking tactile tablet, a new computer peripheral device. > The Talking Tactile Tablet, better known as the TTT, is an innovative > device that plugs into the USB port of a computer. With the > Authoring Tool software package simple to complex graphics with audio > capabilities can be created in just a matter of minutes. <br> > <x-tab> </x-tab>Under a 2 > year grant from the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation > Research, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services of the > United States Department of Education Touch Graphics Company will be > giving away 75 TTTs and the Authoring Tool software package. A > contest is being held April 1 to July 31, 2004. 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Penny Rosenblum<br> > University of Arizona<br> > 520-621-1223 (office)<br> > 520-621-3821 (fax)<br> > Visit my web page at > <a href=3D"http://www.ed.arizona.edu/rosenblum" eudora=3D"autourl">http://ww= > w.ed.arizona.edu/rosenblum</a><x-tab> &nb = > sp; </x-tab></html> > > --=====================_270061007==.ALT-- >