Two hundred years ago, the son of a saddler from a rural French village devised a groundbreaking tactile writing method of raised dots for blind people at the mere age of 15. Changing attitudes before ...

All his life, Robert Englebretson has been a bookworm. He was a good kid. But he often bent the rules for this early love. "One of the cool things about braille is that you could sneak a book under ...

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Today, Google is rolling out a new keyboard that will let blind and low-vision users type in braille without any additional hardware and in any app. The TalkBack braille keyboard is integrated ...

The airline has about a dozen planes outfitted with Braille already. United Airlines announced Thursday that it is the first U.S. airline to add Braille to its aircraft cabin interiors. The airline ...

Smartwatches enable users to not only tell the time, but be notified of calls, receive and read messages, and even monitor their heart rate. For a long time, smartwatch options for blind and visually ...

When Carlton Cook Walker’s young daughter developed health problems that led to near-total blindness, she knew she wanted her to learn Braille. But the family’s school, in rural central Pennsylvania, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Inside the halls of historic Central High School, one student's struggle sparked a project that turned compassion into innovation. Joshua Lewis, a sophomore at Central, has ...

Building with Lego bricks has stayed a formative and important practice for kids around the world, partly because it’s so easily enjoyed by anyone, regardless of location, language, or ability. Now ...

Lego has released Braille versions of its famous toy bricks, marking the first time the product has been released to the general public. The Braille bricks are designed so that anyone who is curious ...

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