On January 4, the world celebrates Louis Braille, the visionary who created a tactile system of reading and writing that ...

World Braille Day 2025 highlights the history and importance of Braille, celebrating Louis Braille’s invention and its role ...

France's main Braille publisher is in financial crisis after a bold decision to sell its embossed books for the same price as standard ones. Its future raises the broader question of whether printed ...

KALAMAZOO -- Scott Davert is like a lot of other students at Western Michigan University -- he can't live without his PDA. He uses his to download books, to listen to MP3s, to check his e-mail and ...

President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have reaffirmed Pakistan's commitment to protecting the rights, ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday reaffirmed the government’s commitment to protecting the rights ...

Few inventors have had such a positive effect on so many lives as Louis Braille, the remarkable educator, innovator and advocate for the blind. Braille was born about 20 miles east of Paris in ...

1809: Louis Braille is born. He'll devise a tactile alphabet for the blind. 1813: Isaac Pitman is born. He'll devise a shorthand alphabet for quickly writing what people are saying. It's probably more ...

Researchers from the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech have developed a prototype iPhone app called BrailleTouch that should revolutionize texting and data entry for visually impaired ...

It wasn't all that long ago that we saw a student turn a tablet into a Braille writer, and now some researchers from Georgia Tech have done the same thing for smaller touchscreens, too. The Yellow ...

LEGO is launching Braille Bricks, a new method of play designed to help children with vision impairment develop new skills and learn the Braille writing system. After a successful pilot scheme ...

There is a wonder in reading in Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and to have them touch you back. – ...