That light shines on printed braille dots at an oblique angle, causing each one to cast a black shadow onto the surrounding white paper. The resulting pattern of high-contrast shadows is easily ...

In the mid-1800s, the invention of the Braille system radically changed the lives of millions of visually impaired people around the world — but how much do you know about the person who created it?

Both displaying Braille and reading it is difficult to do with machines, but there has been a development in the latter area. A research team has trained a robot to read Braille at a speed far ...

2. Offer accessible menus, such as Braille menus, large print menus with high-contrast letters and an audio recorded option (which also helps people with reading disabilities or limited ...

A Lafayette first grader is heading to Los Angeles this summer to show off his fundamental braille skills, and hopefully ...

Braille is a tactile method of reading and writing used by the blind ... Braille yasarna and other braille books in addition to white canes. He added that the visually impaired first learn braille ...

He said, “Sometimes there's a song, or sometimes there’s a hymn or a reading that is not available to me, it’s just not in braille it can be printed out here and I can have it there so once ...

Boyer went on to develop a software program that converts written text into Braille, an invention fueled ... But that was never his goal. The White House honored Boyer's accomplishments in a ...

“I need a few more bookshelves,” Gomes, a retiree and novelist who is blind, says giddily of the collection — all of it Braille — that’s blooming at her home in Patterson, Calif.

all while raising awareness -- and money -- to help empower blind people by ensuring they have access to the braille reading material they need. For Cheri’s son Will, braille has played an ...