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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While many in Raleigh are wondering whatever happened to the glory days of 1983, Dr. Neil Di Spigna and company are doing far more productive things at NC State. It's no secret that the holy grail of ...

(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, ...

Non-sighted computer users, on the whole, have not had access to the tremendous gains in computer interfacing that many of us have taken for granted. Largely restricted to braille innovations ...

OF COURSE, LET YOU KNOW. YOU MORE NEBRASKANS WHO ARE VISUALLY IMPAIRED CAN NOW GET ACCESS TO A KEY PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY FOR FREE. IT’S THROUGH THE NEBRASKA LIBRARY COMMISSION’S TALKING BOOK AND BRAILLE ...

When most of us are surfing the Web we generally do it in much the same way we read a newspaper. We scan the entire page looking for information that interests us before focusing our attention on that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...