Example of Tactile Graphic Design:

Australia: Average Annual Rainfall

The following points indicate the braille code, format rules, and design techniques that were used for this tactile graphic example.

• literary braille code
• use of blank space and distinctness of side-by-side area textures (2.11)
• implementation of key on facing page (2.20, 5.8.3.2, 7.3.10)
• non-texturing of bodies of water, limiting number of area textures to five; main focus of map is on levels of rainfall, not surrounding water (3.2.2)
• use of a variety of textures (3.4.3.1)
• use of blank space behind and around labels (3.4.3.13)
• complex graphic simplified (3.5.3, 3.8.3, 7.1.1.1)
• simplification of shorelines (3.6.1)
• omission of political boundaries explained in transcriber's note (3.7, 5.6.1, 5.6.2)
• consolidation of information in key: 12 print ranges combined into five textured areas (3.8.3)
• non-use of “cont.” with title on second page of graphic (5.3.3)
• placement of title on key page, repetition of title on further tactile graphic pages without a blank line before (5.3.5, 5.8.3.2)
• incorporation of print legend into key listing (5.7.5, 5.8.4.2)
• placement of transcriber's note symbol before the transcriber's note starts and after the last symbol in the key (5.8.4.1)
• key explanation starts in cell 6 (5.8.4.3)
• runover of labeled information on the graphic left justified and not indented (5.10.7)

Australia: Average Annual Rainfall

Australia: Average Annual Rainfall