There have been a lot of advances in accessibility recently, with voice control, screen readers, and more improving access to computers for many people. But something that has been missing is a haptic ...

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Three Ohio State alums are developing technology that could make Braille more accessible than ever. Through their assistive technology company A Cubed Design, the trio is designing the Enigma Reader, ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In order to make dynamic written content, for instance a news reader, available for blind or vision-impaired people, scientists have come up with various designs of sheet-type, ...

"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 ...

Braille is a method of physical writing used to allow humans to read by touch — most commonly used as a substitute for printed text by those who may be visually impaired. Both displaying Braille and ...

Students at the Government Institute for the Blind at Braille Bhawan will receive an innovative electronic device — Annie — next week that would make Braille learning easy, said deputy commissioner ...

Creating dynamic Braille displays that can quickly change their pattern of dots isn’t a new idea, but the existing solutions are often big boxes with complex mechanisms used to raise and lower an ...

One of the practical upsides of improved computer vision systems and machine learning has been the ability of computers to translate text from one language or format to another. [Jchen] used this to ...