Tactile Engineering
At Tactile Engineering, our mission is to develop and deliver technology that improves life, learning, and career opportunities for people with blindness and visual impairments (BVI). Our modern digital and online world presents countless obstacles for BVI individuals to have even basic access to remote learning, STEM content, and higher education. With decades of experience in assistive technology and accessible communications, our team is dedicated to removing these barriers and bringing BVI-accessible activities, education, and productivity to the entire world.
We founded Tactile Engineering in 2013 to develop and manufacture a dynamic tactile graphics device for the blind and visually impaired. After proving out and patenting our core technologies, we gathered an alliance of high-tech Indiana and Midwest companies to help us refine and build the intricate components, robust manufacturing facilities and processes, and pioneering content and apps that would turn a viable concept into a mass-produced market-ready product.
Our flagship product, the Cadence tablet, is the first mass-produced tactile device able to display tactile graphics that move and change beneath your fingers. The Cadence tablet empowers BVI individuals to experience a whole new way to access information and dynamic content, including pop-up highlights and labels, graphs that update in real time, live camera feeds, and fast-paced entertainment and gaming apps. The Cadence tablet hardware is the core element in the expanding Cadence platform of software, content, and interactivity, creating a new online community that links BVI people worldwide to each other and all of humanity.
Cadence tablets are in use across the US, with more schools, companies, and organizations in line for deployments. At the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Cadence tablets have been provided to students for use as study and lab aids. Adult users at workplaces and colleges have been using Cadence tablets to access vital content such as spreadsheets and data graphics. Cadence tablets provided blind audiences with unprecedented live tactile video of the April 8 solar eclipse, and the platform is currently in testing to provide real-time access to live sports, planetarium shows, fireworks displays, and other events.
Tactile Engineering is headquartered in Lafayette, Indiana, close to Purdue University and in the heart of the Purdue research corridor. We continue to seek people who share our passion and drive to join our quest to bring a sea change in equity and inclusion for the BVI community.
Website: www.tactile-engineering.com
Email: info@tactile-engineering.com
Phone: (765) 233-6620
Representative: Wunji Lau
Representative Email: wlau@tactile-engineering.com
Representative Phone: 3172015335
Address: 3601 Sagamore Parkway N, Suite C, Lafayette, IN 47904
Service Area: National (USA)
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