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 ...

This school year, they encouraged Bo to compete in an international braille competition — a series of tests challenging ...

For a blind person, braille is more than just a tool for reading books. It's essential for navigating space, and is used on everything from signage to elevator buttons to 3D tactile maps. Yet very few ...

Braille was invented by a nineteenth century man named Louis Braille, who was completely blind. Braille’s story starts when he was three years old. He was playing in his father’s shop in Coupvray, ...

Visually impaired students can now learn to read braille on their own thanks to a new educational tool. Developed by T-var EdTech — a startup accepted to Harvard Innovation Lab’s incubation program — ...

Like a lot of smartphone users, Rolando Terrazas, 19, uses his iPhone for email, text messages and finding a decent coffee shop. But Terrazas' phone also sometimes serves as his eyes: When he waves a ...

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Braille Institute is proud to announce the recipients of its third annual Community Hero Awards, recognizing extraordinary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. United Airlines started rolling out Braille placards for seat numbers and lavatories in the past few weeks. The airlines expects ...

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Louis Braille, who was born on 4 January 1809, invented a tactile reading and writing system that transformed the lives of countless people with severe vision impairments or blindness. Braille was ...