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Mega Dots is a Powerful DOS braille translator with a Windows
Installer, designed for the volume transcriber and producer who is
working for American or British braille readers.
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MegaDots is a mature DOS braille translator with powerful features for the volume
transcriber and producer. Its straightforward, style-based system and automated
features let you create great braille with only a few keystrokes. Yet it is
sophisticated enough to please the fussiest braille producers -- you can control each
step MegaDots follows to format, translate and produce braille documents. MegaDots
2.3 now has a Windows installation program that automatically installs
your desktop icons and shortcuts. The headaches of installation are now gone!
Does MegaDots Do Windows?
Yes, even though MegaDots 2.3 is still an MS-DOS application. MegaDots works with
Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT, XP, and Vista.
Can MegaDots bring in files from Microsoft Word?
Yes. However, until recently MegaDots did not bring in files from recent versions of
Word, specifically files from Word 97 and Word 8. Beginning with version 2.02,
MegaDots imports these files very well, as long as you are working on a Windows 98
or higher system (and you are not running in MS-DOS mode).
If a blind person uses mainly Windows applications on their computer,
can they use MegaDots with voice or refreshable Braille access? Yes.
JAWS works in DOS applications. We have included a set of MegaDots script files, for
use with JFW 3.0 or higher.
Can MegaDots print through Windows?
Yes, and the process of printing braille from MegaDots through Windows has been
greatly simplified.
How Do People Use MegaDots?
- Large braille production services use MegaDots to produce braille
textbooks efficiently for blind students. The program's speed lets them move
through a great amount of material in a short time.
- Elementary school students as young as third grade are using MegaDots to
make braille and to learn about computers.
- Teachers find MegaDots helpful in quickly getting braille to their blind students.
- There are exercise and directions styles for making exams and worksheets in
MegaDots.
- MegaDots is used by several deaf-blind persons as their main reading
and writing tool.
- Blind computer programmers use MegaDots to make computer program
listings in braille.
- Volunteer transcriber groups use MegaDots in a variety of ways-both for
translation and for 6-key direct entry of braille.
- Schools and transcribers use MegaDots to make grade one braille in
Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
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