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…
Talking Tactile Books – TaTaBooks
Talking Tactile Books – TaTaBooks for blind and visually impaired children project is an Erasmus+ project funded by the European Commission and runs from November 2021 to October 2023. A total of eight partners from four countries (Austria, Czech Republic,…
European Blind Union issued a Position paper about braille
In september 2023, European Blind Union issued important document position paper on Access to Reading and Using Braille – a matter of the future clearly outlining our position. (external link, PDF file, 271 kB) The position paper clearly states the…
Braille concept – interactive and easy-to-follow braille course
Since 2010, Themis Games develops games for fun and joy. There are more games of interest with accessible content for people with disabilities. One outstanding game is tightly related to the braille. It is interactive and playful course of basic…
Slovakia is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the national prize for the design of braille typewriter TATRAPOINT Adaptive
Almost 200 years have passed since Louis Braille created the braille system of writing for the blind and visually impaired. The first tools to “emboss” the dots on a sheet of paper were a simple slate and a simple stylus,…
Dotris – wonderful game for the braille display
The fact that a lot of effort is now being put into adapting computer games for the blind is giving us a great hope for brighter gaming future. Getting lost in the sounds of stories and games and letting your…
African Braille Code
For those interested in finalized African braille code, there is a document in 30 languages available – Braille Systems for Africa: A Multilingual Document. The file was created by David Holladay from Duxbury Systems, inc.