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 ...

Imagine if your computer only allowed you to see one line at a time, no matter what you were doing -- reading e-mail, looking at a Web site, doing research. That's the challenge facing blind computer ...

Signing up for college classes can be intimidating, from tuition, textbook requirements, to finding an engaging professor. Imagine signing up online, but you cannot use your monitor. We wager that ...

"A refreshable brailledisplay is an electro-mechanical device that creates braille patterns by raising rounded pins through holes in a flat surface. Braille-literate computer users use the braille ...

The Blitab tablet uses “smart liquids” to create a Braille readout of text files and webpages. Saunter down any city street and the impact of mobile technology is apparent: lots of folks have their ...

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 ...

Gordon Gottsegen is a tech writer who has experience working at publications like Wired. He loves testing out new gadgets and complaining about them. He is the ghost of all failed Kickstarters. Apple, ...

Victor Tsaran, a musician and Computer Science graduate, shot a video showing an iPhone 4 controlled with a Braillant-32 bluetooth Braille Display. Braille is the alphabet used by blind people to read ...

BRAILLE TECHNOLOGY. FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, LOUISVILLE HAS BEEN A WORLD LEADER IN PRINTING BRAILLE BOOKS. THANKS TO AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND. AND I’M ANSWERING THIS QUESTION DOES ...