February 9, 2005 A new printing attachment for Braille printers promises a new world for the sight-impaired and those who share their lives, enabling Braille documents to be shared with sighted ...

May 13, 2008 Vision impaired users can now access books, news articles and web pages using an email-based service that translates text into Braille and audio recordings. RoboBraille is a free service ...

Two Bay Area synagogues helped make Hanukkah cards for blind and visually impaired Jews, each one with unique tactile ...

In an effort to make braille more accessible for the visually impaired in signage and printed media, Tokyo-based designer Kosuke Takahashi has hit upon a novel solution that merges those characters ...

If you’re blind, the world of PDFs and laser printers doesn’t do much for you. There are software programs and special printers that transcribe text into Braille, but they’ve traditionally been ...

The absence of such basic resources is not merely an issue of convenience, but a reflection of a growing Braille literacy crisis. Today, visually impaired children rely heavily on audio materials and ...

One group of people has traditionally been left out of our modern tablet revolution: the visually impaired. Our slick, button-less touchscreens are essentially useless to those who rely on touch to ...

Sony has filed a new patent for a controller attachment suggesting the DualShock 5 could support tactile braille text readout functionality. DualShock 5 To Support Tactile Feedback, Suggests Sony ...

With the FingerReader, all a visually impaired user needs is to do is point. Print is everywhere. But rarely does a menu, magazine, or business card get translated into Braille. For situations in ...

Osaka firm Askk has a text-to-Braille converter, the Smart Braille, coming out later this year that it claims one-ups existing devices via a simple idea that makes reading continuous text far easier.

Washington, Aug 10: A South Korean startup has developed an affordable Braille smartwatch which allows the visually impaired to receive and read text messages in real time and even read e-books. The ...

The visually impaired students enrolled in Under Graduate & Post Graduate course in government-run higher education institutions in Odisha are contending with shortage of Braille text books, the state ...