Two hundred years ago, the son of a saddler from a rural French village devised a groundbreaking tactile writing method of ...

Grueling does not always equal gratifying in the hiking world. Instead, take a leisurely stroll along these seven short, ...

In fact, the Braille dots on parking meters, bathroom signs and ATMs were already illegible to most blind Americans when the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 put them there.

Louis Braille, the inventor of a tactile reading method for people with visual impairments, also invented braille music notation. Here’s everything you need to know… In 1829, Louis Braille invented a ...

A blind artist who combines braille with pop art has created a children's book. On the outside, Mr Dot and His Magical White ...

Mila Halling is one of four Minnesotans who just returned from competing in the Braille Challenge Finals in Los Angeles. It's ...

But braille, which is read by fewer than 10 percent of blind or visually impaired people, is far from perfect. That’s why, almost 200 years after braille was created, Andrew Chepaitis decided to ...

Learning braille means literacy for the blind community, says Presley, who helps train service providers so they can more effectively work with the visually impaired.

Braille is under threat from new technologies such as voice recognition and talking computers that can "read" text. It is not being taught widely in schools, is not popular with parents of blind ...

But Braille instruction has dropped drastically over the past 40 years. In the 1980s, about 50 percent of blind people received some sort of Braille instruction.

Lucknow: The braille press of Dr Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University (DSMNRU) has printed over 2,000 books covering more than 30 subje.