On January 4, the world celebrates Louis Braille, the visionary who created a tactile system of reading and writing that ...

KALAMAZOO -- Scott Davert is like a lot of other students at Western Michigan University -- he can't live without his PDA. He uses his to download books, to listen to MP3s, to check his e-mail and ...

Researchers from the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech have developed a prototype iPhone app called BrailleTouch that should revolutionize texting and data entry for visually impaired ...

It wasn't all that long ago that we saw a student turn a tablet into a Braille writer, and now some researchers from Georgia Tech have done the same thing for smaller touchscreens, too. The Yellow ...

Few inventors have had such a positive effect on so many lives as Louis Braille, the remarkable educator, innovator and advocate for the blind. Braille was born about 20 miles east of Paris in ...

1809: Louis Braille is born. He'll devise a tactile alphabet for the blind. 1813: Isaac Pitman is born. He'll devise a shorthand alphabet for quickly writing what people are saying. It's probably more ...

LEGO is launching Braille Bricks, a new method of play designed to help children with vision impairment develop new skills and learn the Braille writing system. After a successful pilot scheme ...

Graeme Douglas has received research funding from a variety of research funding organisations, including: Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), The Nuffield Foundation, Thomas Pocklington ...

Visually-impaired candidates in the Central Region have today joined thousands of students across Ghana in writing the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), using the braille system to ...

An "artificial eye" is still a long ways off, but researchers have made the low-resolution devices now available useful in a new way. Instead of trying to replace vision entirely, they only "translate ...

Mali say it has allowed them to fit in - Two hundred years have passed since the invention of braille, the tactile writing ...

Eight-year-old Alondra Pagan-Galarza’s trip to Los Angeles last weekend for a nationwide Braille competition included side visits to Disneyland and the beach. But her favorite part of being one of 50 ...