Amadou Ndiaye meticulously ran his fingers across bumps in a piece of paper, making sense of the world he can no longer see.

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 ...

In Malawi, for instance, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) produced 4,050 braille products on spreading ... invented the tactile system for reading and writing for use by people who are blind ...

Now in its 40th year, the CSUN Assistive Tech Conference has been the go-to event for discovering how technology can improve ...

Known as “the blind couple from Mali," the duo of Amadou Bagayoko, who lost his vision at age 16, and Mariam Doumbia, who ...

Unfortunately, anyone with low vision who relies on Braille signs, relief maps, and audio jacks doesn’t have this luxury — at least not yet. A group of researchers at Bayreuth University in ...

The resource links will prove helpful in finding lesson plans, assistive technologies, adaptive equipment, tactile models as well as tools such as talking scales, talking thermometers, Braille ...

The National Museum of the Air Force is adding Braille language touchpads to many of its exhibits and offering sign language interpreters to two upcoming tours.

Two hundred years have passed since the invention of braille, the tactile writing system that has transformed the lives of ...

Two hundred years have passed since the invention of braille, the tactile writing system that has transformed the lives of many blind and partially sighted people by offering a path to literacy ...