May is Healthy Vision Month and the Rancho Santa Fe Library and Vision of Children Foundation are hosting a special event to ...

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When Robbin Jordan completed last year's London Marathon, she was given a medal with raised dots on it. Jordan knew it was Braille, a form of touch reading for people with visual impairments. But she ...

A few times a day, a strange, pulsating sound fills the Boston headquarters of the National Braille Press. Thun-thun. Thun-thun. This is what employees of the nonprofit braille publisher call the ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) -- A local teenager is dedicated to the fight for equal access to knowledge. Henry Hill is a junior at University High School in Irvine. He's an avid fan of classic literature ...

“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 ...

A symphony of metal keys clicking and chiming echoes through the nearly empty classroom. As each key clatters, a corresponding hole punches through the thick, waxy paper, leaving a slight indentation ...

Graduation day came at a place you might not expect: York Correctional Institution. The women’s state prison has developed a program to certify inmates in braille transcription, and the work is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

BERN TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Berks County Public Libraries announced Tuesday an addition to its Accessibility and Supportive Learning Collection that will include 30 new books in braille. For the blind, those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Longtime readers will recognize the name Dean Regas, astronomy contributor to The Enquirer and former cohost of the PBS series ...

Boldly declaring the name of every Princeton entryway in bumpy, domino-esque letters, braille goes largely unnoticed. These dots have no meaning to the untrained eye, or hand for that matter. For all ...