From text to touch: The braille centre in Singapore helping the visually impaired connect with words With October a significant month for visually impaired awareness, CNA Lifestyle tours the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped to understand the unique considerations in producing…

"structural nature [ #braille ] means the individual dots can’t be made smaller. #Spacing ..can't be tightened either. Altered #FontSize would be “misleading”.. "we’ll be confused. That word (won’t) mean anything to us."”: buff.ly/Su57aXg

via @ChannelNewsAsia.bsky.social
#blind #accommodations

Bildschreibung: Jemand der Blindenschrift mit seiner Hand liest.

Braille als Kulturerbe: Tastbare Schrift für weltweite Anerkennung vorgeschlagen #Braille #Kulturerbe #Inklusion #Barrierefreiheit #Deutschland #Hilfe #News #Berlin #Newsroom #Nachrichten #presse https://tinyurl.com/2aq5lok9

Textured drawing with Braille markings: “Being seen as good is not good enough”

Textured drawing with Braille markings: “Being seen as good is not good enough”

This was a project I did for a drawing class. Accidental #drawings with multiple powdered media and oil in the pattern of #Braille markings that say: Being seen as good is not good enough”.
#markmaking #abstractart #art #monochrome

Home computers and accessories If you're affected by sight loss, we're here for you

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An RNIB guide to what assistive technology options are available to make it easier to use a computer or laptop

#GRACEDigitalCafe #RNIB #AssistiveAids #DigitalLiteracy #Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #ScreenReader #Braille #EastDunbartonshire #Community

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LC Sign Launches Touchpoint Initiative for Visually Impaired Students LC Sign has introduced a revolutionary Braille signage project at Qiming School, enhancing accessibility for visually impaired students through its new Touchpoint Initiative.

LC Sign Launches Touchpoint Initiative for Visually Impaired Students #China #Guangzhou #Accessibility #Braille #LC_Sign

Een Scrabble-bord op een houten tafel, met twee handen boven het bord die letterblokjes neerleggen. De letterblokjes vormen het woord “HOEN” in een horizontale rij. Het bord is grotendeels leeg; de gekleurde vakjes voor woord- en letterwaardes zijn zichtbaar, met teksten zoals “DOUBLE LETTER SCORE”, “TRIPLE LETTER SCORE”, “DOUBLE WORD SCORE” en “TRIPLE WORD SCORE”. Onderaan aan de rand van het bord staat “SCRABBL” (de laatste letter is niet in beeld). Links op tafel ligt een donker, rechthoekig voorwerp dat op een letterrekje of een bakje met steentjes lijkt. Bovenin is een deel van een rood kledingstuk met grijze en witte strepen op de mouwen zichtbaar.

Niet tussen 5 en 6 wakker worden, maar om kwart voor 7. Die 1e nacht van de zomertijd is altijd een goede.

Straks kwebbelen en scrabbelen met mijn blinde vriendin (88) in Groningen.
Even dachten we haar kwijt te zijn. Ze is er weer!

Fijne zondag beeldschermvrienden!

#zindag
#zondag
#braille

Photo of paper in a brailler. The paper is brailled with a handful of haiku.

Brailling haiku in the quiet hours after 9 pm when you’re the only person in the building is a very specific vibe.

(And I highly recommend trying to folks who are also learning braille).

#poetry
#writing
#braille

Perkins School for the Blind uses braille NCAA brackets to teach math WBZ-TV's Levan Reid spoke to teacher Sue Sullivan about her innovative idea.

#MarchMadness, but make it #accessible!

#Braille, brackets and basketball in the #BlindNewWorld - what could be better? 🏀

(Story via @wbztv.bsky.social ⬇️)

Numérisation d'un alphabet braille, le titre, lui aussi en relief indique ; " écriture à l'usage des aveugles, procédé de L. Braille, professeur à l'institut national des aveugles". En dessous, les lettres latines et les chiffres ainsi que leur équivalent via des points en relief.

Exercice d'écriture en braille de deux courtes poésies, la première est intitulée "la Violette : Aimable fille du printemps, timide amante des bocages, ton doux parfum flatte mes sens, et tu sembles fuir mes hommages". Une seconde poésie en bas de page : "Aux petits des oiseaux il sonne la pâture et sa bonté s'étend avec toute la nature".

[Archives en Braille]

Connaissez-vous le #braille ?

Il s'agit d'un système d'écriture tactile conçu dès 1825 par Louis Braille pour les personnes aveugles ou déficientes visuelles.

The Braille Sense 7 looks really awesome, considering the specs. Finally, a modern Braille note-taking device. Maybe I can somehow manage to get one for work.
#accessibility #braille

This is really cool! #braille

Image of a hand reading braille.

Trivia: What was the first book released simultaneously in Braille + print?
A) Wrinkle in Time
B) HP & the Half-Blood Prince
C) Little Women
D) Charlotte’s Web
Answer in next week’s What’s Up Wednesday! newsletter.
#21stCenturyDisability #DisabilityAwareness #ThursdayTrivia #Accessibility #Braille

Un bolso lleno de historias, colores y texturas… y también de puntos que se leen con las manos 💛📚
Un libro en braille que demuestra que la lectura se siente de muchas formas.

#INVLIJUA26 #LecturaInclusiva #Braille #LiteraturaInfantil #Aula

Los supermercados deberán incluir braille en alimentos con alérgenos El Ministerio de Derechos Sociales, Consumo y Agenda 2030 obligará a las grandes superficies a etiquetar en braille alimentos con alérgenos o productos con sustancias peligrosas ...

Los supermercados deberán incluir #braille en alimentos con alérgenos

Everyone at FUMC Lafayette Sings From the Same Hymnal Judy August truly appreciated it when First United Methodist Church of Lafayette purchased a Braille hymnal just for her so she could participate in ...

At First United Methodist Church of Lafayette, #accessibility and #inclusion became a community effort as students, parishioners and church leadership worked together on a #braille hymnal for a fellow worshipper who is #blind. #BlindNewWorld

(Story via @umnews.bsky.social ⬇️)

Sticker in einem WC eines ICE-Zugs: "Hier kontaktlos spülen". Mit eingravierter Braille-Beschriftung.

Sehr durchdacht. #DB #ICE #Braille

rode tent

Oma, zing bij je gitaar.
Regendruppels, tokkel maar.

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#poëzie #kinderen #oma #opa #logeren #kamperen #tuin #tent #zingen #voorjaar #generaties #voelboeken #braille #PrentenboekenPlus #Boekenweek

Did you know that Hot Wheels released a toy with braille on the vehicle? Well they did!
And you can check out my thoughts below!
#hotwheels #twinmill #braille
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Ik legde onze 5-jr kleinzoon uit hoe #braille werkt …. Hij: ‘ O, cool …’ 😐

Funny FACTopia is one of the fab #WorldBookDay2026 titles. Enter a world of hilarious, weird and amazing facts. Every fact is connected in surprising and comical ways.

Get this gem of a book from RNIB in #audio and #braille formats.

The Braille Menu Conspiracy Mood: Feeling like an archaeologist of breakfast foods. Also, smug. If a wealthy racialized friend asks me to dinner—I say yes because I am poor and I need all the luxuries I can get. My country hates artists more than cockroaches, so I have no poverty pride at all when someone far wealthier than I says he will pay for me to go out with him and eat with him. It began like this. A wealthy porn star/sex worker was in town and he was very tired of me eating sludge. The invitation arrived as I was browsing Libro FM because someone—one of my readers—mysteriously gifted me audiobook codes. I was trying to hunt for a hefty sized digital bundle or one of my favorites narrated by one of my audiobook lifelines, Sean Crisden. Coincidentally, the very same person you’re hearing through this audio file. I read the invitation five times before it sank in. “I'm tired of you eating junk, so let me take you out to dinner. Get you some _real_ food.” We walked into a place that smelled of polished wood and expensive acoustics. The air conditioning hummed with a confident, wealthy silence. And then, I caused hell. There is a specific, terrified cadence that enters a hostess’s footsteps when you ask the Forbidden Question. "Do you," I asked, unleashing the chaos, "have a Braille menu?" The air pressure in the room dropped. I heard the hostess stop moving. There was a pause, a volley of frantic arguing whispers, a rustle of fabric as she likely looked at her manager, and then the sound of a key turning in a lock that hadn't been opened since the Bush administration. "Yes!" she chirped, her voice pitching up an octave into that particular tone people use for puppies and Disabled people out in public. "We do! Let me go get it!" She vanished. My Dominican friend and I sat there. We waited. We aged. I grew a beard. Civilizations rose and fell in the distance. I heard the clatter of plates and the murmur of diners enjoying food I was technically not yet allowed to know existed. When she returned, she was breathing hard, as if she had just unearthed the Ark of the Covenant from a basement storage locker beneath a pile of folding chairs. "Here you go!" she announced, the pride in her voice so thick it was practically a solid object. She handed me The Tome. It was heavy. That was the first warning. But the weight wasn't the problem. The problem was the texture. This Braille menu in a sighted restaurant was not a menu. It was a biological archive. The Braille menus are always biological archives because it is a petri dish bound in plastic. Because nobody ever uses them, and nobody ever cleans them, they collect a sensory strata of the restaurant's history. I laid my hands on the cover and immediately regretted having nerve endings. It was tacky. Not metaphorical tackiness, but literal, adhesive tackiness. My fingers stuck to the plastic with a faint, wet _shhh-luck_ sound when I tried to move them. It felt like the floor of a movie theater distilled into a book. I opened it. The spine cracked with the dry, popping sound of a gunshot. "It's right there," the hostess audibly beamed, hovering over me, waiting for her medal. "We want to make sure everyone is welcome." I ran my fingers over the first page. The Braille dots were there, technically. But they were flattened, worn smooth by the weight of other objects stacked on top of them for a decade. Worse, there were mystery substances interfering with the data. I traced a line of text that I’m pretty sure said _Appetizers_ , but my reading finger hit a patch of something hardened and crusty. Was it dried ketchup? Ancient syrup? A fossilized sneeze? I navigated the sticky minefield. * _Page 1: Chicken Sandwich - $6.95._ * _Page 2: The Soup of the Day is Potato Leek._ "I'll have the potato leek soup," I said, testing the waters. "Oh, honey," the waitress cut in, her voice dropping to a tragic whisper. "We haven't served that in twelve years. This menu is from the old location." Of course it is. This was not a Braille menu. It was a conspiracy. It was a prop. I've come to understand, though, that Braille menus almost never are for the Blind Braille readers. Braille menus are almost always props. It exists so the owner can check a box on a compliance form and feel warm inside, while I am left holding a sticky binder of lies that tells me I can buy a steak for eight dollars. It is accessibility performed for the sighted, not built for the blind. I closed the Book of Sticky Lies. I wiped my hands discreetly on my jeans, trying to scrub away the sensation of a 30 year rot. "That's fine," I said, turning my face toward the kitchen. I began sniffing, using the reliable olfactory sensors. I ignored the noise of the room and focused on the air currents drifting from the swinging doors. I caught the heavy, iron-rich scent of charred fat. Beneath it, the sharp, woody spike of fresh rosemary. And wrapping around it all, the undeniable, luxurious density of truffle oil. "I won't need the menu," I said, handing the biohazard back to the hostess with a beatific smile. "I'll have the ribeye, medium-rare, with the truffle fries. And a glass of the Merlot I can smell breathing on the table to my left." My friend laughed, stunned. "You just ordered the most expensive thing in the building." "I can't help it," I said, listening to the hostess retreat with her sticky artifact. "The menu told me nothing. The air told me everything. And besides," I added, leaning in, "you're paying." If you enjoyed this story, you might enjoy At first Smile by Melissa Whitney

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After seeing Braille keyboards priced at $7,000, a high school student created a version for under $10 using 3D printed keycaps and donated keyboards, and now distributes them globally to support independence for students who are blind or visually impaired. #Accessibility #Braille #AssistiveTech

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Gerade ereilte mich das Bedürfnis herauszufinden, ob es einen Unicode-Block für Braille (sog. Blindenschrift) gibt. Und natürlich gibt es den! Und jetzt frage ich mich, was macht eine Braille-Zeile oder ein Screen-Reader aus Unicode Braille? 🤯

Beispiel: ⠁⠂⠉

(Disclaimer: ich kann kein Braille […]

National Philharmonic of Ukraine Adds Braille Navigation for Accessibility | Ukraine news - #Mezha In February 2026, the National Philharmonic of Ukraine installed Braille navigation elements to improve accessibility for visually impaired visitors, enhancing inclusive cultural experiences.

The National Philharmonic of Ukraine has implemented tactile and #braille elements to help #blind and #VisuallyImpaired patrons independently navigate through the space - from the Music Salon to the cloak room. #BlindNewWorld

(Story via Mezha ⬇️)

"I couldn’t accept that #accessibility tools were priced out of reach for so many people."

An innovative high school student has created a practical, affordable #braille keyboard - and has distributed more than 100 of them through his nonprofit. ⌨️ #BlindNewWorld

(Story via @nj.com ⬇️)

From text to touch: The braille centre in Singapore helping the visually impaired connect with words With October a significant month for visually impaired awareness, CNA Lifestyle tours the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped to understand the unique considerations in producing…

"“Wrong” spacing is often created by those who don’t understand the dot-pattern #font in the first place, even though the #Braille Production Centre does its best to advise its corporate clients.": buff.ly/dSb8wo5

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#blind #disability #inclusion #awareness #blindness

Ministero dell'Istruzione In occasione della Giornata nazionale del #Braille, che si celebra il 21 febbraio di ogni anno, la Biblioteca “Luigi De Gregori” del #MIM propone un’esposizione dedicata con volumi, testi, sussidi didattici e spartiti musicali. La mostra è visitabile fino al 27 febbraio e i testi esposti appartengono al fondo Braille della Biblioteca. L’esposizione intende ricordare il centenario del primo numero della rivista “Gennariello”, pubblicato dalla Stamperia Nazionale Braille nel 1926. Qui tutti i dettagli ▶️ https://www.mim.gov.it/web/guest/-/giornata-del-braille-al-mim-l-esposizione-dedicata-visitabile-dal-20-al-27-febbraio-tra-i-materiali-presentati-anche-una-copia-in-braille-della-costit

In occasione della Giornata nazionale del #Braille, che si celebra il 21 febbraio di ogni anno, la Biblioteca “Luigi De Gregori” del #MIM propone un’esposizione dedicata con volumi, testi, sussidi didattici e spartiti musicali.
Ministero dell'Istruzione

High Schooler Makes Braille Keyboards For Under $10. Here's How When Umang Sharma saw an ad for a $7,000 Braille keyboard, he knew there had to be a better way. Now his nonprofit has grants from Google and Microsoft to distribute a much more affordable version.

When Umang Sharma saw an ad for a $7,000 #Braille keyboard, he knew there had to be a better way. Now his nonprofit has grants from #Google and #Microsoft to distribute a much more affordable version. #disabilities #accessibility

Review by sarahmatthews - Quartet in Autumn Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym Read in Braille Pub. 1977, 187pp___This is a reread for me, ...

Here are a few thoughts on Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym, 1977, a poignant novel centred around 4 London office workers in their 60s who are all facing decisions about their future 💙📚 #BookSky #Braille
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Reading for the blind

Director told me this.

Funding was just cut for LOC braille version of Playboy

“So now, the only people who actually read the articles, now no longer do."

#Braille
#Playboy
#LOC
#Blind