If you ever thought about learning Braille or just wanted to quickly translate something written in UEB to your iPhone, there’s a new app that can help you with that. Software engineer Aaron ...

This year marks the 200th anniversary of braille. You may have noticed braille on elevator buttons or hotel room number plates. It is the raised dots, or tactile code, through which blind and low ...

The overwhelming majority of vision-impaired children attend regular public schools, rather than specialty schools for the blind, and few have teachers who are trained to understand differences ...

LONGVIEW ISD INSTRUCTOR Angie Mayeaux helps eighth-grade student Kanye Hamilton, 13, learn to type in Braille at Judson Middle School. “Oftentimes, they have a hard time reading other people’s facial ...

Two Cornell students have created BrailleWear, a smart glove that aims to improve accessibility and increase braille literacy rates among the visually impaired. BrailleWear was co-founded by ...

A pen which can transform Braille into English text has been developed. A pen which can transform Braille into English text has been developed by experts at the University of Bristol. Braille literacy ...

The 65 students from around the country who came here this summer to show off their Braille prowess represent an elite group of an already-small number. Only about 26,000 of the 6.7 million students ...

In Leonie Masterson's London classroom, students are learning to read by touch. All of the students are blind or sight-impaired, and today, 17-year-old Aya and 18-year-old Francis are helping their ...

Learning braille is a skill that, like most, is best learned at an early age by those who need it. But toddlers with vision impairment often have few or no options to do so, leaving them behind their ...

The week before Christmas is Santa’s busiest time of year. And as he prepares to circle the globe on his annual gift-giving trip, he relies on some trusty helpers. One of Santa’s special helpers is ...

The mood was tense and the competition fierce Thursday in an upper-level-math classroom at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind, where an abacus replaces a calculator and white canes hang on ...