Australia’s vision-impaired community has a new and affordable connectivity tool at its disposal as the world’s first braille mobile phone launches in Australia. The stripped-down OwnFone ...

School kids will be able to get creative while also building their braille skills with the launch of LEGO Braille Bricks in Australia. The bricks are designed to help children with vision impairment ...

Vision Australia has joined forces with LEGOLAND® Discovery ... Each LEGO Braille brick has raised bumps that have been modified to correspond to a letter or character of the braille alphabet.

BRAILLE is a writing system designed to allow the blind and visually impaired to read. It uses tiny pimples on the page that can be felt by the finger tips an interpreted as letters and numbers. Wh… ...

Remarkably, the Braille alphabet was the work of a French teenager who'd lost his sight at a young age in a gruesome accident. As a schoolchild adjusting to his darkened world, Louis Braille ...

In Australia, it is estimated there are 330,000 people who are deaf and blind. Charities say that figure is likely to exceed 1.2 million by 2050. More Science & Health News ...

FOR THE FIRST time in its 32-year history, Australian Geographic magazine has been published in braille. With the help of Braille House, a Queensland-based organisation that prints books and creates ...

Lego Braille Bricks are available in English and French starting Sept. 1, with pre-order starting Aug. 24. What languages will Lego Braille Bricks use? Lego plans to add additional languages next ...

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