Dr. R. Bali Reddy and his team refine braille technology, enabling visually challenged students to access digital education ...

Only about 10% of blind people around the world can read Braille. One primary reason is the high cost of Braille displays. The cost is a result of their complexity and reliability – required to ...

A University of Rhode Island textiles professor is working with 3D printing technology to create symbols on clothing to help ...

Unfortunately, anyone with low vision who relies on Braille signs, relief maps, and audio jacks doesn’t have this luxury — at least not yet. A group of researchers at Bayreuth University in ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH ) — January is Braille Literacy Month, a time to celebrate the revolutionary touch system that allows individuals who are blind or visually impaired to read, write ...

The pandemic has revealed how critically important it is to produce essential information in accessible formats, including in Braille and audible formats. Otherwise, many persons with disabilities ...

Braille is a code that enables blind and visually impaired people to read and write. It’s nearly 200 years old, and it’s based on a system of raised dots that are ‘read’ by fingertips ...

COMPETED IN AN ACADEMIC BRAILLE CHALLENGE HERE IN DES MOINES YESTERDAY. IT’S THE ONLY COMPETITION OF ITS KIND RIGHT HERE IN NORTH AMERICA. FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED.

It’s 200 years since Louis Braille developed the six-dot tactile reading system that would become known as braille RNIB is leading a year of celebrations in Northern Ireland and across the UK to ...

However, by age 8, she found that she had quickly run out of things to read. This is because she was born blind, and there is only so much reading material available in Braille.