Yash Mehta, a 14-year-old student at Durham Academy, won a first-place technology award as part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. A Durham teen is getting praise for winning ...

Researchers have developed a fast and accurate flexible tactile optical sensor capable of reading Braille. The technology could enable smart readers that convert Braille to speech or text, helping to ...

The Orbit Reader Q40 Refreshable 40-cell Braille Display with an integrated QWERTY keyboard. The Orbit Reader Q20 Refreshable 20-cell Braille Display with an integrated QWERTY keyboard. The all-in-one ...

Lucia, a fifth-grader in the Pittsburgh area, reads braille during the annual Regional Braille Challenge at the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Local blind ...

A Lafayette first grader is heading to Los Angeles this summer to show off his fundamental braille skills, and hopefully bring home a trophy. Emerson Thom will compete against nine other first and ...

Students often appear for high-stakes tests that hold significant weight in determining their futures. One such examination, the Common Test for University Admissions, currently allows examinees using ...

Of all the things for people to get grumpy about. I think for some reason, people assumed that the moment you lost your ...

For Jana Hertz, it’s all about the rush she gets when she watches students excelling at braille, a code of raised dots that will serve them as a crucial guide into the sighted world, helping advance ...