In the last few months, most of the world’s population has shied away from touching as many public things as possible. Unfortunately, anyone with low vision who relies on Braille signs, relief maps, ...

Research with tiny artificial muscles may yield a full-page active Braille system that can refresh automatically and come to life right beneath your fingertips. Research with tiny artificial muscles ...

Scientists at North Carolina State University have developed a refreshable Braille display system that would allow the blind to read digital content on the Web. The Braille system, of course, allows ...

Although the way we read printed or written text hasn’t changed much over the last 600 years, the media used for carrying the words have evolved significantly. From animal skin and waxed wooden ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan are working on a braille tablet that would display more than just lines of text. Thanks to the use of microfluidics, the tablet could display such complex ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In order to make dynamic written content, for instance a news reader, available for blind or vision-impaired people, scientists have come up with various designs of sheet-type, ...

Talking about the importance of Refreshable Braille Display (RBD), a device very useful to the visually impaired, on World Braille Day, Dr. Sam Taraporevala, executive director at Xavier’s Resource ...

People with limited sight often enjoy sports through listening. But audio descriptions of sports events - like the Indy 500 - ...

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 ensure ...