2025 marks 200 years since Louis Braille invented his revolutionary 6-dot tactile writing system for blind people. Braille was also an organist, and he went on to adapt his system into Braille Music, ...

Six student social entrepreneurs have been selected as finalists to pitch at Ignite, the annual funding contest for social ...

Lego Braille Bricks help blind and low-vision children "play and learn just like every other child," said mom Lisa Taylor. At first, Olivia struggled with braille. Then the 7-year-old, who is blind, ...

A new version of Snake, coded to run in your browser’s URL address bar, makes playing it on your old Nokia brick feel ...

From texting on a smart phone to ordering train tickets at a kiosk, touch screens are ubiquitous and, in most cases, ...

All his life, Robert Englebretson has been a bookworm. He was a good kid. But he often bent the rules for this early love. "One of the cool things about braille is that you could sneak a book under ...

For most blind computer users, surfing the internet or catching up on e-mail means reading just one line at a time, because commercially available braille displays can't show full pages of text.

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 ...

When Alexa Jovanovic was in her last year in the Fashion Communications program at Toronto Metropolitan University, she knew she wanted her final project to look at disability inclusion, but she ...

Robert Frank: As promised yesterday, today’s economic naturalist question is one of my two all-time favorites from among the many thousands submitted over the years by former students. “Why,” Bill ...

Braille Energy Systems Inc., (TSXV: BES) ("BESI" or the "Company") through its subsidiary Braille Battery Inc., a global ...