Only about 10% of blind people around the world can read Braille. One primary reason is the high cost of Braille displays. The cost is a result of their complexity and reliability – required to ensure ...

For most blind computer users, surfing the internet or catching up on e-mail means reading just one line at a time, because commercially available braille displays can't show full pages of text.

For many people around the world, braille is their primary language for reading books and articles, and digital braille readers are an important part of that. The newest and fanciest yet is the ...

With braille literacy falling, we take a look at some alternative, cheaper braille displays. For non-blind people, reading is an order of magnitude faster than listening. Is braille also faster? If ...

Scientists at the University of Michigan are working on a revolutionary display technology that could one day feature in a Kindle-style Braille tablet for the visually impaired. “Imagine having a ...

OF COURSE, LET YOU KNOW. YOU MORE NEBRASKANS WHO ARE VISUALLY IMPAIRED CAN NOW GET ACCESS TO A KEY PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY FOR FREE. IT’S THROUGH THE NEBRASKA LIBRARY COMMISSION’S TALKING BOOK AND BRAILLE ...

Scientists at North Carolina State University have developed a refreshable Braille display system that would allow the blind to read digital content on the Web. The Braille system, of course, allows ...

In the last few months, most of the world’s population has shied away from touching as many public things as possible. Unfortunately, anyone with low vision who relies on Braille signs, relief maps, ...

Scientists have created a new, durable, multi-line braille display device, which is water and dirt-resistant. Interestingly, it can simultaneously display multiple lines of braille and even complex ...

At $4,000 each, Braille displays are much too expensive to be of any use to the nearly 8 million visually impaired people living in India. But thanks to a group of clever computer science students ...