Master Braille with the BrailleMaster®

Welcome to BrailleTutor.com!

Learning Braille is a challenge. The student must develop a feel for the small dot patterns of the character cells. Braille flash cards help. However, the student must also learn the dot patterns that represent each character. The BrailleMaster provides instant voice feedback as the student presses keys representing the dots of the Braille character cell. The BrailleMaster also helps the student learn Braille Grade Two contractions. With the BrailleMaster, a student can practice while the instructor devotes individual attention to other students, making more efficient use of classroom time. Then, the student may take the BrailleMaster® home to continue practice individually.

Purchase the BrailleMaster® today and get tomorrow's BrailleMaster®! All BrailleMaster® users are entitled to one free upgrade of the system firmware during the warranty period (1 year).

• BrailleMaster® Datasheet html, pdf
• Instruction Manual
• Discussion Area - Answers to your questions about the BrailleMaster® (or ask more!)
• Dealers
  • Independent Living Aids, Inc
• BrailleMaster® in the news
  • Conquering the Code: A Review of the BrailleMaster Product evaluation of the BrailleMaster in the September 2003 issue of AccessWorld, a publication of the American Foundation for the Blind.
  • Introduction To The BrailleMaster: The First Speaking Braille Tutor - Mimi Berman, Independent Living Aids, Inc., Jericho, NY. Presentation at California State University, Northridge, Center on Disabilities International Conference "Technology and Persons with Disabilities," March 18-23, 2002. See some photos from the exposition.
  • Bakersfield Californian - Man masters art of Braille with device, Saturday October 06, 2001
• Braille in the news
  • 1/4/02 - Birthday of Louis Braille, January 4, 1809. Read and hear the short broadcast on The Writer's Almanac on the birthday of the inventor of Braille.
  • 8/6/01 - Braille versus technology. This NPR story discusses the use of Braille versus the use of audio (text to speech, etc.). "With Braille, I can sit under a tree and read without batteries." Listen to the report.
  • Many blind losing out by not knowing Braille - Teachers stress familiarity with it despite technology - San Francisco Chronicle, May 23, 2001
  • Hooked on Braille - Distance-learning class trains teachers of the visually impaired in California, San Francisco Chronicle, December 14, 2000.
  • A Vision for the Future - Essays urge an end to the stigma under which the blind live - Review of the book PERCEIVING THE ELEPHANT in San Francisco Chronicle, September 5, 1999.
  • As Braille Goes Out of Fashion, Blind Adults Are Becoming Illiterate - San Francisco Chronicle, August 27, 1999
  • A LIBERATING AGE FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED, Letter to Editor of San Francisco Chronicle, July 17, 1999
  • Blind Lecturer Enlightens Firms About the Disabled - San Francisco Chronicle, July 23, 1998.
  • OUT OF DARKNESS - Book review of Out of Darkness by Russell Freedman. San Francisco Chronicle, July 6, 1997
• Braille Resources
  • American Council for the Blind
  • American Foundation for the Blind
  • Blind Schools of the US - A list maintained by the Nebraska Center for the Education of Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
  • Bookshare.org dramatically increases the accessibility of books for people with visual or other print disabilities. This online community enables book scans to be shared, thereby leveraging the collections of thousands of individuals who regularly scan books, eliminating significant duplication of effort. Bookshare.org takes advantage of a special exemption in the U.S. copyright law that permits the reproduction of publications into specialized formats for the disabled.
  • Braille ASCII Chart - This chart relates ASCII characters to their corresponding braille cell dot pattern as used by most embossers. Also available in text form.
  • Braille Contraction Lookup Dictionary - Key in a word, hit the button, and the dot pattern for the contracted word comes back.
  • Braille Flashcards Online - Quizzes you on braille words using on screen dot patterns
  • Braille Through Remote Learning - Extensive site offering introductory and transcriber courses
  • Dotless Braille - The main goal of this website is to increase braille literacy by demystifying braille for sighted persons but without oversimplifying the way many other introductions to braille do.
  • International Council on English Braille coordinates and improves standards for braille usage for all English-speaking users of braille. Projects include: Unified English Braille Code, 8-dot Braille Code, and Tactile Graphics.
  • National Library Service at the Library of Congress - Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS administers a free library program of braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States by postage-free mail.
  • Schools for the Blind - International list of schools maintained by Duxbury Systems.

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