To any sighted person, braille looks like a language masked in encrypted code. It’s incredible, but totally indecipherable. As a result, braille is a companion to our visual language–an add-on for ...

We just trying to give her all the skills available to learn more and be more independent,” Juli Hintz said of Harley Garton.

Tobias Finnie makes the menu to help other blind or partially sighted customers.

When it came time for college, Kayla Weathers said she thought she was prepared. She attended public school for all of her educational career up to that point, except for her last two years of high ...

January 4 every year is internationally observed as World Braille Day to commemorate the birthday of French educator Louis Braille. Reading and writing are important foundations for a person’s ...

Louis Braille was only 16 years old when he developed a sophisticated system of raised dots to allow the blind to read. Six dots on two parallel lines – Braille may seem like a simple invention, but ...

Fewer than half of legally blind Americans read Braille. "When my son was born, he was the first blind person I’d ever met," Emily Coleman told "Good Morning America." Coleman, 40, now works as a ...

Braille Neue Standard by Kosuke Takahashi (all images courtesy the artist) In an attempt to make braille more familiar and accessible, Tokyo-based designer Kosuke Takahashi has redesigned the tactile ...

The challenger sat alone at a square folding table in the center of her teacher’s immaculate living room, stockinged feet whispering against the plush, white carpet, hands poised over a blue Perkins ...

My eight-year-old son, Steven, has oculocutaneous albinism, a condition in which a lack of pigment in the eyes and skin causes varying degrees of poor vision, light sensitivity, and vulnerability to ...

Lego has unveiled a new project aimed at helping blind and visually impaired children learn Braille in a “playful and engaging way.” Lego Braille Bricks, a concept originally proposed to the toy ...

Illiteracy in the blind community is a human rights issue that activists have struggled to address for decades. But a new innovation may provide a solution. The Read Read is a Braille learning device ...