More than a half of a million kids in the United States are visually impaired. That's according to a survey done by American Community Survey for the American Foundation for the Blind. Teaching kids ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — January is a month meant to celebrate the importance of braille to those who are visually impaired. Vision loss can happen to anyone at any age, and for some, braille is a ...

A pen which can transform Braille into English text has been developed. A pen which can transform Braille into English text has been developed by experts at the University of Bristol. Braille literacy ...

This Braille Literacy Month, Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave podcast reports on the writing system and how some researchers are working to lessen the national shortage of qualified braille educators.

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 ...

Two Cornell students have created BrailleWear, a smart glove that aims to improve accessibility and increase braille literacy rates among the visually impaired. BrailleWear was co-founded by ...

For more than a century, Louisville has been a world leader in printing Braille books thanks to American Printing House for ...

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

A pen which can transform Braille into English text has been developed by experts at the University of Bristol. Braille literacy is frequently reported as being in decline, this is despite visually ...