MegaDots Braille Translator
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. Yet it is sophisticated enough to please the fussiest braille producers -- you can control each step MegaDots follows to format, translate and produce braille documents.
Technical Highlights
- Large braille production services use MegaDots to produce braille textbooks efficiently for blind students. The program's speed lets them move through a great amount of material in a short time
- Elementary school students as young as third grade are using MegaDots to make braille and to learn about computers
- Teachers find MegaDots helpful in quickly getting braille to their blind students
- There are exercise and directions styles for making exams and worksheets in MegaDots
- MegaDots is used by several deaf-blind persons as their main reading and writing tool
- Blind computer programmers use MegaDots to make computer program listings in braille
- Volunteer transcriber groups use MegaDots in a variety of ways-both for translation and for 6-key direct entry of braille
- Schools and transcribers use MegaDots to make grade one braille in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese