A game of guessing puzzle based on braille dots brings a lot of fun and can be avery playful way to learn or train braille code. It is easy, without any installation needed, possible to play on web, in mobile…
Review of the braille display: Zoomax Braille eReader
Zoomax Braille eReader is a sleak 20-cell braille e-reader with wifi, bluetooth and USB connection. It offers standard 6-dot keyboard with space, backspace and enter (on the positions of dots 7 and 8), 20 cursor routing keys and 11 function…
Perkins Smart Brailler – Review: by Mairead O’Mahony
Combination of hard-copy braille and digital output helps to teach braille. This device may come very handy for teachers, assistents and braille trainers. Here is the review of the machine by Mairead O’Mahony, Vision Ireland: Product Review: Perkins Smart Brailler.…
Summary of the tactile image libraryes
There are more online libraries offering a possibility to download the sources for creating a tactile images using different technologies. Those can include simple but very powerful braille graphics, dots graphics, tactile relief images for thermofoil, ZY Fuser, databases of…
World Braille Day 2024
For the sixth time, on 4TH of January 2024, the whole world celebrates Braille as one of the most important communication tools for blind people. World Braille day was announced by the United Nations in 2018 and has been celebrated…
Santa’s letters in braille: where is the truth?
How does Santa answer to children in your country? In Slovakia, if Santa gets letter in braille, he answers in braille too. It is a service offered by the Slovak National post in cooperation with the Matej Hrebenda Slovak Library…
Multi-lined and graphical refreshable braille displays: pillars of the braille future
Since the eighties of the last century, when the first refreshable braille displays came on the market, we experienced a huge change in their shapes, syzes, appearances, and functions. We will be closing on 50 years of the refreshable braille…
Braille display usage survey
The European Blind Union (EBU) invites you to take part in a survey to enhance the use of braille displays. Braille displays become more and more important to read and edit text in an electronic way. But the performance of…
Second hand braille displays
Braille displays play a key role in education or braille training. For now, many people in many countries are not able to enjoy the comfort of the digital braille in their braille display and work with digital braille content, simply…
Braille: intangible cultural heritage of humanity
(Admin) Translated text: This document illustrates the need to complete the application for the learning and use of Braille to be included in UNESCO’s inventory of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity, which is currently being drafted under Joel Hardy’s…