[TAGS] Using TactileView Tactile Graphics Software with a Screen Reader

[Valerie Alcaraz]

Hi Cynthia, my name is Valerie. I recognized your name from this year's NFB convention. I am a totally blind artist who is also interested in tactile graphics. I'll be interested to hear about anything you learn, if you share that with this group. I was an art major in college, and was experimenting with a wacom tablet and a bluetooth pen on plastic sheets of paper. It would be nice to possibly make my own graphics with minimal sighted help. If you know of any sort of testing for products like Tactile view, I would love to test things and provide feedback. Also, I myself hope to get a colombeaa embosser one day, for the express purpose of learning how to use the graphics features.
I know this answers none of your questions, but I am just as cureaous if someone out there has more resources and knowledge.
Take care,
Valerie .   

> On Nov 2, 2020, at 9:30 AM, Cynthia Bennett via TAGS <tags at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hi Everyone,
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> Briefly, I am new to this list. I do not have any experience producing tactile graphics as the questions in this email will relay. But I work in the field of accessibility and am ever interested in making the processes people use to communicate and enact their creativity, particularly such that accessible practices are professionalized in largely inaccessible design and technical-centered spaces.
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> I have just obtained a Columbia embosser and TactileView software. I am a screen reader user interested in learning your experiences.
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> Specifically, how have you oriented yourself to TactileView software? I’ve played around and embossed graphics as I go but sometimes I have difficulty figuring out why what I thought I have produced did not show up or why it turned out very differently from what I expected. What types of tactile graphics have you produced with a screen reader? What strategies do you have for locating graphics online that may require few edits? And, what tasks are not yet very accessible?
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> I found this source online:
> https://thinkable.nl/category/tactileview/tactileview-manual-en/screenreader-en/
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> and Ting Siu pointed me to her talk on using TactileView that has some screen reader access info:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCanZ2A5wdQ&feature=youtu.be
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> Thanks for your help,
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