According to Perkins, the tactile code is not a language. It was named after its inventor, Louis Braille, who developed the ...

Photo courtesy of Roar Media Today is World Braille Day World Braille Day is a moment to reflect on the power of tactile ...

Michigan's Governor Gretchen Whitmer declares January Braille Literacy Month to highlight the importance of braille for the ...

When the local nonprofit Blind Industries & Services of Maryland reached out to Johns Hopkins University's mechanical engineering program last year, they asked for one thing: a printer that adds ...

In the 1820s, Louis Braille devised a raised-dot system of letters, numbers and musical notation. 200 years later, it’s still ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Central High School students are using technology not only to prepare for their futures, but to make learning accessible to everyone. Teacher Chris Brown said students have been ...

GOODING • Donning yellow T-shirts, five teenage boys, each taking cues from their teacher, sung a mantra to get them in the mood for the day’s work. Before long, they were sitting at their desks, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A group of engineering students at Johns Hopkins University put their invention skills to work and delivered by building a printer that can add braille to beer labels. It’s a tool ...