With a little fine tuning, the Tactile Viewer can be used to easily present slideshows and interactive tactile graphics.
A user can quickly navigate around a graphic in the Tactile Viewer using nine keyboard shortcuts. Dot 1 with space jumps to the top left corner of the image. Dots 1 3 with space jumps to the top center of the image. Dot 3 with space jumps to the top right corner of the image, and so on. This means that a PDF of a certain size can contain up to nine Monarch screen-sized graphics that may be quickly toggled to compare and contrast information. It may be useful for viewing data from different charts, highlighting and labeling different parts of a graphic, and presenting slideshows with built-in images.
I find that creating these graphics works best with a document 21.75 inches wide and 8.5 inches tall, split into thirds using your drawing software’s ruler guides. It may take some fine tuning to get everything to line up seamlessly. I have attached an example PDF for viewing or for use as a template.
The attached PDF is four pages, with each page containing its own set of images. Page one is a series of bar graphs comparing data about five major European countries. Page two is a diagram of a fish with each of its fins filled in and labeled. Page three is a diagram of the brain with each major region filled in and labeled. (This diagram also contains gray lines, so that the outlines of the parts of the brain appear after two applications of the “more detail” filter (dots 4 6 with space).) Page four is a slideshow about how caves form, with pictures.
Monarch slideshow.pdf (709.7 KB)