Startup Mangoslab has received the Best of Innovation award at CES 2026, the world's largest electronics and IT exhibition, ...

The support for Braille is available as a new experience in ‘Narrator’. It has multiple variants, including grade 2 contracted braille, and uses more than 40 languages. Enabling the feature will ...

For people who rely on Braille, reading displays and signs in public can be a challenge, but a new system could help make things easier. HaptiRead is a haptic feedback device that uses ultrasound ...

Uno, the popular card game, is expanding its audience by offering a Braille edition that can be played by both visually impaired and sighted users. "We're making a real impact on a community that has ...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a glove that helps users learn to read and write Braille, all while focusing on unrelated activities. The wearable computer uses ...

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.

When Alexa Jovanovic was in her last year in the Fashion Communications program at Toronto Metropolitan University, she knew she wanted her final project to look at disability inclusion, but she ...

Sitting at her Toowoomba kitchen table, with her guide dog at her feet, Joyce Jones types a note on a manual braille machine. Dr Jones has been reading braille since the 1960s, when an eye condition ...

Louis Braille, the inventor of the raised-dot system of writing used by blind people around the world, was born on January 4, 1809. Braille, and the writing system that bears his name, gave millions ...

MINNEAPOLIS --For many, ordering at a restaurant is something we take for granted. But for people who are blind, it's not always an inclusive experience. A south Minneapolis restaurant is trying to ...