Welcome to BrailleSoft, INC.! My name is Louis Bryant, also the Program Manager at x-sight Interactive - Making exciting software for blind and visually impaired people. I am a blind individual who loves to build and produce software to advance and entertain us as a blind community. Every now and then, I will post new software and ideas and hope everyone who uses it sends their feedback. For me, feedback is greatly appreciated and is usually acted upon within a timely fashion.
This Web Site will be updated very frequently, more features will be added, and more games, news, products, and more links to accessible sites! Please visit me often!
Select a link below for more information.
Check out X-Sight Interactive and my hand in Software!
Freedom Scientific Note-taker Downloads
DOS and Windows Programs
BrailleSoft's PAC Mate Software
Windows Mobile Smart Phone Software
Check out the Smart Phone Software link above for information on games for your Windows Mobile Smart Phone! Please send comments, suggestions, questions, and/or concerns to me at louis@braillesoft.net! I am hoping to somehow support Symbian devices in the future so please watch for announcements!
To keep great games coming to all devices, and maybe more I will start supporting in the future, I would appreciate if possible however much you want donated to keep BrailleSoft up and running. Your generous gifts will permit me and other partners I will have soon to keep developing software for various products for your enjoyment! I'd like to thank everyone who has played my games and/or made use of my utilities, and to thank those who are thinking about or have already donated! Your donation will mean a lot!
Level Star Icon and BraillePlus support software coming soon from BrailleSoft!
Warm welcomes go out to Travis Smith - a new program developer inside BrailleSoft! I hope we can come out with more ideas for the blind for multiple machines. Already, we have a few unmentionable PAC Mate specific projects under development. Good luck to you, and thanks for your interest/participation!
I am proud to be the Program Manager at X-Sight, thanks to Damien Sadler on Monday, February 5, 2007!
The Music Categorizer is now available. Have multiple MP3'S and are you having a hard time finding them? Or, want to generate playlists of all your favorite MP3'S without knowledge of the path and filename of them? Want to make things easier for yourself and everyone else who looks at your computer? Try this software out!
Games for PAC Mates are freely available! Some have Source Code, others do NOT! New games will appear from time-to-time, so keep coming back! The latest news and downloads will be on that PAC Mate page.
If you want to contact me directly, I have 3 other ways. The first way is on MSN. I go by louis@braillesoft.net. The second way is via Skype. I go by l_bryant2004, and if you prefer, you can search for Louis Bryant. The last way is usually on The Zone BBS. My nametag there is l_bryant2004.
A new product, the "connect" application is now available from the DOS/Windows page. This is only version 1 and takes the place of the Telnet program which doesn't work that well with JAWS. Unlike my games though, this application works flawlessly with JAWS and you don't need to full around with JAWS at all. Just read the connect.txt document after extracting the .zip file into a folder of it's own! Future versions will have a scripting language in which you can script your own client, and also an internet browser that you can script as well. The source code for this free product is not available. The program for now runs on Windows, yet their are a number of free and accessible clients like this one for Linux.
Future releases will also include various servers that work with JAWS and have the scripting capability. These will include an FTP server, internet web server, and a bulletin board you can visit! The servers will run on Windows, but clients of any kind will be able to log on to them, even if they run on Linux!
The Tic Tac Toe game has been upgraded once more, now taking out the need to press ENTER twice in order to place your X or O on the game board. ESCAPE finally works, and the response is a little faster. This game also includes changes mentioned in the last posting about the game, with those repiticious statements removed.All these minor changes also makes the ttt.exe file smaller in size and a little faster! Let me know if you want more features and/or another game. Unfortunately for Linux users this game is not yet available, although I am trying to get a Linux distribution up and running, like Oralux but my computer doesn't seem to want to support it.
I have changed the startup sequence and re-compiled all of my games so JAWS and Window-eyes, and the Windows Operating System know for sure that these games are currently console-based programs. Because of this, JAWS seems to respond a little better to the .exe files you run to play the games.
My friends, Kody, Murysia, and I are featured in the A Living Skills Thirty Second TV Public Service Announcement. The spot should be airing on the Bay Area's television towards the end of the month.
You need to download and install RealPlayer to watch it if you don't already have it.
Are their any Freedom Scientific Note-taker, PAC Mate, BRAILLEX ELba, BrailleNote, Level Star Icon, or Windows/Linux fanatics who love to search the Internet, or want to see more accessible software for these products? Please drop me an E-Mail using the address at the bottom of this page, and let me know exactly what it is you want to see! Requests may be answered slowly, but trust me, I'll get around to all of them in the years/months ahead!
I have added another game called 23bricks to this Web Site. You can find it in the DOS/Windows programs page, although it can run on all other supported platforms DOS, Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. It includes Source Code, an executable, and a screen reader that can read Console applications that run under Windows. For sure, JAWS and Window-Eyes work.
A game, Camel has been added to this Web Site!
Actually, it has been here before, but some major changes have been done to the program to make it more enjoyable! It runs on all supported platforms by Euphoria, and can be downloaded from the DOS/Windows link.
A new game, Taxman, has arrived to this Web Site! You have a list of numbers, you and the Tax Man must get the numbers that factor one another. If no more numbers can be factored, the Tax Man gets them all! Your scores are based on how many numbers you pick, plus the numbers' value! The download is available!
For users of the Freedom Scientific Note-takers:
I have posted the Source Code to all of my games. Feel free to modify and redistribute these programs, but you CANNOT sell them.
I have setup Mailing Lists. The first one originally was going to be strictly Notetaker based, but I have decided to expand it to all blindness related issues and solutions for these issues. Really, the Mailing List is for anyone who wants friends, sharing information to lots of people, questions and answers about anything relating to blindness including notetakers, computers, programming, life, kids, everyday problems, ETC. For more information, please subscribe to The List!
Do NOT be fulled by the name Notetakers@braillesoft.net being only Notetakers are allowed to be talked about, just note that anything can also be discussed here besides Notetakers!
There is another list for Smart Phone users!
Talk about BrailleSoft's Software running on the Smart Phone, how to install it, run it, and get the most out of it!
My wife Brandi Bryant has a list of awesome sites you might want to check out. Visit her site at http://www.brandi.braillesoft.net and see what it is all about. You can also submit a site for judgement there, and if Brandi aproves of it, she will submit it.
I am hosting a web site for someone else now. You can check out Katie Madison's site at Katie.braillesoft.net. It is a site for people who love computers and computer jokes among other things!
Kyle Key has probably one of the biggest sites with all sorts of accessibility news, entertainment, old-time radio shows, and 4 streaming stations. Check it out, make a donation, and let him know what you think! He has beta tested my software for the PAC Mate and the Smart Phone!