They could use it even for music notation." He adds that various blind people had improvised in the past, but Braille was the first one to come up with a uniform system that could work in many ...

“Although I’m always excited to see authentic representations of blind people and Braille in art, using Braille as a device to produce an experience of illegibility is a cheap trick and no ...

In the mid-1800s, the invention of the Braille system radically changed the lives of millions of visually impaired people around the world — but how much do you know about the person who created it?

The post-doc researcher at Georgia Tech University has co-developed an app, called BrailleTouch, that could help blind ... Braille keyboard is so fast that sighted people may start using it ...

About 90% of blind or severely visually impaired people who are employed use Braille, according to the 2012 Report of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.

Given the chance, most people would run their fingers over Catherine Wagner's seductive new photographs of old books - braille books for the blind ... you can't touch the art, Wagner has created ...

Today aged 41, he is registered blind with ... he explains. Using the tactility of fabrics as his inspiration, he devised a colour-coded braille system using raised dots that people touch to ...

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 ... also blind. Using a special ...

While blind people are able to enter text into computers via braille keyboards, their options are more limited when it comes to using smartphones while on the go. The Fintin V1 is designed to help ...

A blind artist ... power back to blind people in a visual world" Mr Reynolds said he wanted to make the story of the shooting more accessible to art lovers. He said: "As a Braille artist, it's ...