Blindness

Duxbury Systems leads the world in software for braille. The Duxbury Braille Translator (DBT) and MegaDots, are used by virtually all of the world's leading braille publishers. No one supports more languages than Duxbury Systems - DBT supports grade 1 and grade 2 translation in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Malaysian, Swedish, and other languages. Our software can produce contracted and uncontracted braille, mathematics, and technical braille.

• DBT can now be installed in Windows Vista.
• There have been general improvements in embosser support, editing, Scientific Notebook imports, JAWS Scripts, GOODFEEL integration, Braille-Build, HTML/SGML imports, and formatting.
• Translation support has been added for the Amharic, Khmer and Ukrainian languages, and improved for French/Quebec, English/Unified, and numerous others.
• Documentation improvements include "Tips for Vista Users" and a "Table Example" for MS Word.

What does our software for braille look like?

Whether you are blind or sighted, our software comes up as a standard modern application, fully accessible AND fully in tune with the latest advances in operating systems and sister applications.

With Zoom-Ex you can read fast and efficiently for hours.

Zoom-Ex connects to your laptop or desktop PC and captures the entire letter-sized page and saves it in digital format. You then can gradually increase the magnification up to 40X and navigate the saved page using a mouse, a keyboard, or a control pad. No need for an X-Y table, no head movements, no headaches.

With a single click you can separate the pictures from the text and reformat the latter for easy reading. Zoom-Ex will automatically add line breaks into the text to make the enlarged lines fit the width of the screen. Just scroll up and down to read the whole page. You can also select any combination of the foreground and background colours.

Zoom-Ex enables you to go beyond just effective reading. It revolutionises the way in which you work with printed matter. You can print the entire magnified text on as many pages as needed. Zoom-Ex wraps the text, lines will never run off the page. Read the printed pages one after another as you would read a book with large fonts. You can save the entire page for future reading, send it through e-mail to your friends, import pages saved by others back to Zoom-Ex.

Focus refreshable braille displays with unequalled user control. The latest in braille display technology, the portable and affordable Focus 40 and 80 put you in control as you smoothly navigate the Windows ® environment. Focus is packed with advanced features and options that can be easily configured through JAWS ® for Windows.

The contemporary choice for students, professionals and home users. The durable Focus has 40 or 80 cells of braille. Connection is simple. Just plug into a PC or notebook computer via USB.

The Focus has been specifically designed for comfort and ease of use. Even the surface of the braille display has a new design that eliminates seams between the cells and provides a smooth reading surface that feels like paper.

Quickly move around documents with natural hand movements and greater productivity. Read documents and e-mail, work with spreadsheets, and cruise the Internet - all with unparalleled speed and efficiency. Advanced navigation features are designed so your hands seldom need to move from the braille display. All buttons can be individually configured to set up “hot keys” for specific functions.

TypeAbility is a program that teaches the entire computer keyboard in 77 user-friendly lessons. By the end of the lessons, the student will have mastered all the letters, numbers, punctuation, as well as basic navigation and editing in text documents. TypeAbility is great fun for all ages!

TypeAbility 3.0 for JAWS, is compatible with JAWS 6 and higher. Conveniently, you can use either a full version of JAWS, or the free JAWS demo. TypeAbility is also compatible with the screen magnification program MAGic. With MAGic, the partially sighted can not only listen to, but also see their typing lessons. TypeAbility for MAGic, can be installed into MAGic 10.5 or MAGic 11. In that case, JAWS is not needed, because MAGic will provide both speech and magnification.

Learning how to startup, run, choose lessons and tasks, and how to close TypeAbility is very simple. After a few lessons with an assistant, a blind non-typing child will be able to use the program independently. TypeAbility is fun and appropriate for students of all ages.

There are User Preferences that allow TypeAbility to conform to each students needs. However, there are not such a bewildering number of esoteric options that learning how to use TypeAbility would be a mystery and chore.

The knfbReader Mobile and kReader Mobile, developed by K-NFB Reading Technology Inc. from the USA, are truly pocket-size readers. They are based on the Nokia N82 mobile phone and are the smallest text-to-speech reading devices in history. It enables users to take pictures of and read printed material, text on ATM Machines and on computer screens at the push of a button. Blind users hear the contents of the document read in clear synthetic speech, while users who can see the screen and those with learning disabilities can enlarge, track and highlight printed materials using the phone’s easy-to-read display. The Reader gives immediate access to printed information whether it is a menu or a letter.