As with all devices meant for a very small percentage of the population, computing equipment for the blind is very, very expensive. A Braille typewriter – a relatively simple machine that puts dots on ...

[Matthiew] needed to create a system that would allow a computer to read braille. An electromechanical system would be annoying to develop and would require many hardware iterations as the system ...

PRINCE GEORGE — A blind University of Northern B.C. student just wants to show her two sons that anything is possible despite the challenges life has to offer. On Tuesday morning, Shea Anker, an ...

EAST TEXAS (KLTV) - Roughly two percent of the population is legally blind or visually impaired. Of those, less than 10 percent can read braille. Braille is a system that is a set of six dots arranged ...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) --A Long Island history teacher said his Braille computer was stolen from his family's car earlier this week. Jim Hughes said he and his wife arrived home late Tuesday ...

A new German manufactured computerized modern Braille machine has been brought by the Red cross Braille Press at Brahmapur. Department of Social Security and Empowerment of PWDs (DoSSEPWD) Secretary ...

Chakshumathi, an assistive technology and empowerment centre for the blind, is hosting a braille/computer vidhyarambam for the blind, low-vision children and elders. Modern medical diagnoses have ...

Normally, displays for the visually impaired are rather on the large and expensive side. Many actuators are used to create these refreshable tactile displays with 20 - 80 braille cells, each with ...

Addis Ababa — The Sebeta School of the Blind has reportedly introduced computerized braille technology. Computer Section Coordinator with the school, Abeya Bidika told WIC over the weekend that the ...

In the time it takes Jeremy Johansen, a senior at the University of California at Santa Barbara, to get halfway through the Graduate Record Examination, many of his classmates have finished it and ...