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As we already announced in our previous newsletter, the upcoming version of TactileView will introduce integration with the Duxbury Braille Translator (DBT). This powerful solution combines the best of both worlds: accurate braille texts with elegant tactile graphics.

We invite you to join the Beta test for DBT 11.3 Beta and TactileView (version 2.180 or higher). Visit the DBT beta page to register and find out all about inserting TactileView graphics on our beta page.

Visit us at the CTEBVI conference

The CTEBVI 2015 conference (California Transcribers and Educators of the Blind and Visually Impaired) will be held in San Francisco, CA from March 20 to March 22 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott. CTEBVI is an organization of parents, students, transcribers, educators and many other professionals that advocate the special needs of individuals living with blindness and visual impairment.

You can find us in the Irie-AT booth, or join our workshop on Saturday morning from 8:00-9:30.

Meet us at the ICEVI conference, held from July 2nd to Friday 7th in Bruges, Belgium.
Just outside the beautiful city centre, we will come together with over 200 experts from the fields of education and rehabilitation.

Tactile map of Bruges

The schedule leaves enough free time for an exploration of the city of Bruges. Whether you wish to visit the famous historic sites or simply enjoy a refreshing drink after an engaging conference day, a tactile map may come in very handy. We have prepared an A3 size tactile street map on the Index embosser that you can pick up at our table.

At the ICEVI, we will demonstrate numerous solutions for tactile graphics that are particularly suitable for education and rehabilitation: the TactileView software, the TactiPad drawing board, the prototype of the motorised drawing arm (MDA) and a prototype of a braille matrix device.
The next opportunity to see our range of Thinkable products is the Sight Village conference in Birmingham, July 18th and 19th.

We recently returned from the very inspiring Tactile Reading conference. Over 340 professionals came together in Stockholm to share their ideas about tactile reading and writing.

Now, freshly returned from Sweden, we are preparing to meet you at SightCity next week in Frankfurt. From 3 to 5 May you can find us in booth D1, right at the entrance of the main hall.

At the exhibition, we will demonstrate the second version of the motorised drawing arm (MDA) and the new math and science tools for the GraphGrid, which were both met with great enthusiasm in Stockholm. In the video link below, you can already get a view of the impressive speed with which the MDA can produce a TactileView design on the TactiPad drawing board.

On coming Wednesday may 23th the annual exhibition Sight City is opening its doors again.

The exhibition takes place in Frankfurt Flughafen in the Sheraton hotel. The ‘city’ is really full of booths where you can find a wide variety of products and services that have something to do with ‘sight’. ‘Seeing’ them all in one day is nearly impossible, but if you would just see the half of them, your ‘sight’ could be cleared.

Jaap Breider will give a speech on Wednesday from 12:15 to 12:45 in the forum about the challenges that are encountered in the process of creating tactile diagrams.

TactileView will be present during the 3 days in booth H11. We will demonstrate the TactileView software, the TactiPad drawing board, the TactileView ClickPad and the first version of the TactileScope.

When you make it to Frankfurt, please visit us in booth H11.

In case you are not able to come by, we sent you the brochure that we have prepared.

The brochure we hand out is as article available at TactileView – A wealth of tactile images for a visual impaired person

To indicate where you have to go in this huge facility, see our location on the map at www.sightcity.net

With the end of the year fast approaching, we hope you can look forward to enjoying the holiday season.

For us, the end of the year resembles the curve of a parabola. Things will gradually slow down for a well-earned rest, until midnight on the 31st of December when everyone is holding their breath to welcome 2017. In the new year, everything will be picking up speed once more with renewed enthusiasm.

Plans for 2017

We are pleased to let you know that the GraphGrid accessory set for the TactiPad has been extended with three additional tools. These allow you to draw perfect parabolas, hyperbolas and concave or convex lenses.

But more on that later – for now, we want to wish you a merry Christmas and the happiest of New Years!

With the new year in full swing, the first in the list of global assistive technology conferences of 2017 is about to start. Visit the ATIA in Orlando, Florida on January 18-20 to get a hands-on demonstration of the TactiPad drawing board and TactileView tactile graphics software.

In booth 800, Irie-AT will be happy to demonstrate the reasons why both TactileView and the TactiPad are met with ever increasing enthusiasm by visually impaired users and professionals alike.

Additions and improvements in TactileView version 2.500

Hopefully you can enjoy some of the winter sun in Florida. Meanwhile, we will continue to work hard on putting the finishing touches to TactileView version 2.500 for you to download once you have returned home. To discover the changes and improvements, you can already check the release notes and what’s new page on our website.