Standing in Louis Braille’s childhood home, touching the dominoes he once played with, HKS Accessibility Specialist Megan Dausch shares her meaningful visit to the Louis Braille Museum in Coupvray, France. The article is ilustrated by the photographs from the place,…
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…
Drawing with the braille
The braille cells can be used not only for the representation of letters, numbers, punctuation, musical notes, and many more symbols. They can represent a picture, which can be a simple drawing of a diagram, silhouette of an animal, Christmas…
Nice Braille Objects
Hundreds of beautiful braille accessories are offered on the handicraft platform “Etsy”, from key rings to leather bracelets to high-quality silver necklaces. For almost all of them, the text to be displayed in braille can be individually determined. For example:…
Braille Cube
A braille cube as a key ring can not only help you learn braille, but can also be a nice activity in spare time and an eye-catcher. The four sides of the cube can be turned in three levels to…
Drawing with a Braille writer
With a Braill writer or slate and stylus you can make drawings – little pictures wich are specially nice because of the 6 dot order. Guidelines for Braille drawings you find at the “Schweizerische Bibliothek für Blinde, Seh- und Lesebehinderte…