A glimpse into the world of the Braille user – with moving personal stories from around the world. From secret letters and ...

Louis Braille, born on January 4, 1809, in Coupvray, France, revolutionised accessibility for the visually impaired with his ingenious tactile writing system. Louis, who lost his vision at the age ...

"Braille, which is made of tiny raised dots, requires very precise sensors to be read correctly," said research team leader Zhuo Wang from Beijing Normal University in China. "Traditional sensors ...

During his initial experiments, he used dot matrix printer heads ... of the tiny motors in to linear movement for pushing the Braille “cell” pins up and down. The eccentric weight on the ...

Want to play with refreshable Braille systems? This open-source display uses Flexinol wire to actuate the dots.

Visually-impaired students across Northeast Ohio converged on the Stark County Educational Service Center for the Ohio ...

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.

Determined to facilitate that transfer of knowledge, he began working on his own system, inspired by a code of dots and dashes created for soldiers by a French Army captain. Braille was just 15 ...

Recognising this issue, Year 12 students Mohammad Alim and Nizar Abdelhannane from Featherstone Highschool in London set out to create an affordable, effective solution. Their invention, dotFlow, is a ...