OBVI: Vendors of Braille Translation Software

If you have a question that isn't answered below, please email the Office for the Blind and Visually Impaired (OBVI).

Braille Translation Software is critical to the production of quality braille. The following is a listing of all companies in this field, including Duxbury Systems.

Computer Application Specialties Company

PO Box 22219
Lincoln NE 68542
Phone: 402-423-4782
Fax: 402-423-5154
www.c-a-s.com/casc.htm

ED-IT software, a braille editor for braille transcribers with a translation option

Dancing Dots

1754 Quarry Lane
Valley Forge PA 19482
Phone: 610-783-6692
Fax: 610-783-6732
Email: info@dancingdots.com

Provider of software that translates musical score into braille for blind musicians.

Duxbury Systems, Inc.

270 Littleton Rd, Unit 6
Westford MA 01886
Phone: 978-692-3000
Fax: 978-692-7912
Email: info@duxsys.com

A pair of braille translation software products: DBT Win and MegaDots.

Freedom Scientific

11800 31st Court North
St. Petersburg, FL 33716-1805
Phone: 727-803-8000
Toll free: 800-444-4443
www.freedomscientific.com

HumanWare, Inc.

6245 King Rd.
Loomis CA 95650
Phone: 916-652-7253 or 800-722-3393
Fax: 916-652-7296
Email: info@humanware.com

National Federation of the Blind

1800 Johnson St.
Baltimore MD 21230
Phone: 410-659-9314
Fax: 410-685-5653
Email: nfb@iamdigex.net

NFB-TRANS available for free download