SERVICES

Visual Aids We Create

Braille Textbooks, Novels, Articles, and Tests

Visual Aid Volunteers is a trusted resource to transcribe textbooks for students of all ages, articles, and tests for local school districts, and even novels or other literary works. Almost every book in print can be transcribed into braille volumes. VAV can also transcribe articles for students at every level of learning. During the spring semester, VAV frequently transcribes practice tests for visually impaired students preparing for standardized testing.

Braille Special Event Schedules,Church Publications, and Menus

Visual Aid Volunteers is honored to help your event, restaurant, or gathering to be accessible to the visually impaired.

Tactile Graphics

Visual Aid Volunteers has a large library of educational resources in the natural sciences, math, and social sciences that students can read with their fingers. Visual Aid Volunteers also employs talented graphic designers to customize graphics to your needs.

Educational Tactile Maps

Visual Aid Volunteers is a valued partner to local school districts to design and print tactile geographic maps.

Tactile Art for Museums

One of Visual Aid Volunteers’ newest projects is designing tactile representations of art works for displays in local museums. You can see that work at the Amon Carter Museum and the Kimbell Museum.

Hotel information including maps

Visual Aid Volunteers creates maps of hotels and civic centers to allow the visually impaired to travel to conferences and for fun with confidence!

Tools of Our Trade

Embossers

Our embossers allow us to not only transcribe but produce volumes of braille on site. The embosser creates white on white raised braille used for pages without tactiles.

Swell Machine

Our swell machine is used to create raised line graphics, called tactiles, that have a “suede-like” feeling to the raised lines. Special swell paper puffs up black ink.

Tiger Embosser

Our tiger embosser is also used to create raised line graphics in white on white format.

Perkins Brailler

Our Perkins Brailler is used sparingly now but works similarly to a typewriter to emboss single cells of braille at a time.