Early studies with visually impaired participants proficient in Braille typing have demonstrated that users can input at least six times the number of words per minute when compared to other research ...

01 August 2006 Tamkeen Centre recently organised a braille typing workshop for braille typing specialists from the GCC.The workshop came as part of Tamkeen's efforts to offer training programmes for ...

One group of people has traditionally been left out of our modern tablet revolution: the visually impaired. Our slick, button-less touchscreens are essentially useless to those who rely on touch to ...

Blind people have used label makers to print labels in Braille for some time, but they're expensive, costing upwards of ...

A small team of engineers from Stanford and New Mexico State University released a free app which makes typing Braille easy on tablet computers. Blind people would find the uniform key tablet to be ...

It wasn't all that long ago that we saw a student turn a tablet into a Braille writer, and now some researchers from Georgia Tech have done the same thing for smaller touchscreens, too. The Yellow ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech developed an app that allows people who know how to type in Braille an easy way to do so on a smartphone. Traditional Braille typing devices are mobile, but heavy. And ...

A new smartphone and tablet app under development would let users text without ever looking at their phones. And if it takes off, it may make us all expert Braille typists in the future. Right now, it ...