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Press Release
For Immediate release: Two new products help the blind bridge the Digital
Divide!
Contact: Peter Duran
BRL, Inc.
110 Commerce Drive, Suite 210
Fayetteville, GA 30214
TEL: 770-716-9222
FAX: 770-716-9599
EMAIL: [log in to unmask]
WEB SITE: www.wyfiwyg.com
TIGER ADVANTAGE
Many blind students and professionals rely on braille to read educational
and work-related documents. Braille versions of these documents are
produced with a braille embosser attached to a personal computer. The
braille embosser was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in the late 1960's. This vital piece of equipment has changed very little
over the past 3 decades. Now, braille enters a new millennium with new
equipment. The Tiger Advantage -- a new braille and tactile graphics
embosser -- lets the blind use popular computer software like Microsoft
Word and Microsoft Excel to write and immediately emboss documents. Tiger
Advantage embosses quality graphics, at 20 dots-per-inch, directly from any
Windows application that will print to a Windows printer.
LETTER ART
Till now, the blind had virtually no access to state maps, college campus
maps, and transit maps. Now, Letter Art, a commercial sign layout program
includes a braille feature. Sighted users can draw a sign, map, and much
more and have Letter Art automatically provide braille labels. Letter Art
can print a copy of a map or diagram and then have Tiger Advantage emboss
the same information to achieve a document with print and braille.
Call or email for sample braille maps, brochures and prices.
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