Are books, newspaper articles and other reading material produced in the ELIA® Tactile Alphabet?
Individual readers can easily produce materials in the ELIA® Tactile Alphabet with a computer, an internet connection and a Tektronix Phaser 300 printer. The readers load text onto a computer from the Internet or from a computer disk, then they change the font to ELIA, size the text to their required height and print. Any electronic text or book can now be produced with ELIA. In the future, ELIA Life Technology will be developing and producing a tactile tablet. This tablet will be similar to mobile computer devices that the sighted presently use, except that the cells of the display screen will protract and retract from the surface of the table to create tactile images in ELIA(or Braille). The tactile tablet will enable visually impaired readers to access any computer text and carry volumes of information with them.
Related Questions
- Why do persons who have a visual impairment need a tactile alphabet? Can they use voice technology and books on tape to do all their reading?
- Are books, newspaper articles and other reading material produced in the ELIA® Tactile Alphabet?
- Why read education books in addition to reading journal articles?
