BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Amadou Ndiaye meticulously ran his fingers across bumps in a piece of paper, making sense of the world he can no longer see. Two hundred years have passed since the invention of ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — For years, individuals who use braille to read struggled to communicate and access written materials on computers or cell phones. However, advancements in technology have ...

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...

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NORFOLK, Va. - There are 1.3 million blind people in the United States, according to the National Federation of the Blind. However, less than 10 percent know braille — something Deborah Prost is ...

The Valentine's Day notes contain individualized compliments in braille. Amelia, 8, created braille Valentines for her second-grade classmates at a Seattle public elementary school for Valentine's Day ...

BRAILLE TECHNOLOGY. FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, LOUISVILLE HAS BEEN A WORLD LEADER IN PRINTING BRAILLE BOOKS. THANKS TO AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND. AND I’M ANSWERING THIS QUESTION DOES ...

Tobias Finnie makes the menu to help other blind or partially sighted customers.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- About a year ago Dee Dee Mann did not believe she would ever ditch her flip phone. "I said, 'Mm-hmmm, yeah right,'" Mann joked. But after some persuasion, and attending ...

A boy with short brown hair runs his left hand over a set of colorful Braille Bricks attached to a square panel. Source: LEGO Foundation LEGO is rolling out a new toy to increase literacy in blind and ...

“I need a few more bookshelves,” Gomes, a retiree and novelist who is blind, says giddily of the collection - all of it Braille - that’s blooming at her home in Patterson, Calif. It’s an abrupt shift ...