A pen that can transform Braille into English text has been developed by experts at the University of Bristol. Braille literacy is frequently reported as being in decline. This is despite visually ...

Only about 10% of blind people around the world can read Braille ... project he is working on is the Braille Keyboard – a tactile input device that can be used along with smart phones, tablets ...

Both displaying Braille and reading it is difficult to do with machines ... other side of all those little bumps, with two Braille devices taking home awards during the final Hackaday Prize ...

We asked him why braille is still so important today, when the accessibility of the written word has increased so much with audio devices. He said: “Imagine for a moment that you cannot read a ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Amadou Ndiaye meticulously ran his fingers across bumps in a piece of paper, making sense of the world he can no longer see. Two hundred years have passed since the invention ...

Braille (named after its inventor in 19th century France, Louis Braille) is used by blind and partially sighted people to read the same books and periodicals as those printed in a visual font.