Braille displays connected to computers largely solve this literacy issue but are sometimes prohibitively expensive.
His first company was a Braille publishing enterprise which served an international client base.
Blind people cannot depend on mainstream commercial forces to advance the cause of Braille literacy.
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He began transcribing books into Braille for the blind and persuaded other lifers to do the same.
Adults who are losing their sight get a big screen and large text to learn braille independently.
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They are also taught how to read and write in Braille by specialist and volunteer educators with disabilites.
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Literacy through braille is critical to enabling people who are blind to find employment and achieve financial independence.
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"Just by feel and touch ... we call it diving by Braille, but it's just by touch, " he said.
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The case also has integrated apps attuned for the blind, with Braille entry possible using all those multiple touchpanels.
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Notwithstanding the value of speech-based technology, only braille provides a practical means for blind persons to experience true literacy.
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Asteroids are so poorly understood at this point that scientists cannot predict their exact locations, including that of Braille.
Today, Code Factory is the leading provider of accessible mobile applications such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, and Braille interfaces.
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In the hands of the sighted, the low-cost Braille industry has stagnated.
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The Deep Space 1 spacecraft is scheduled at 12:46 a.m. to come within 15 kilometers (10 miles) of an asteroid called Braille.
He says a number of other large institutions will also need to produce information in Braille and could use his service as paying customers.
My staff use exactly such software, along with Braille embossers, in order to be able to produce material for me on a regular basis.
Using Braille for speeches, and briefed by his officials on tape, he also has a sharp tongue at times, and a pragmatic approach to politics.
The current project, BrailleBlaster, will allow the integration of text with Braille graphics such as maps and graphs into a format accessible to blind people.
It also allows the phones to be operated via Braille-based add-ons.
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Current high-tech braille products only work if users already know braille.
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Questioning Mr Barner, Italian centre right MEP Erminia Mazzoni said that using braille from an early age helped blind or visually impaired people with their educational development.
This committee brought together expert Braille users, who formed the majority, and other knowledgeable volunteers from six countries, and it was my privilege to coordinate their work.
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As a child in the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind in 1949, John Boyer found that contemporary scientific material in braille was almost non-existent.
Besides the enjoyment and enhanced personal freedom that comes from being able to read and write, blind persons who use braille are much more likely to be employed.
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Yet 80 percent of those who use braille are employed.
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His senior year in High School, Greeley invented a device that translated the light patterns on a computer screen into Braille, so the visually impaired could use a computer.
Despite this, braille use has declined, in part due to a shift from specialized schools for people who are blind to mainstream schools where there are too few qualified teachers.
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The inventor tested his label maker at a workshop last year in Katpadi, India, where blind trainees successfully taught other visually impaired users how to create their very own Braille-It.
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Asteroid Braille, believed to be about one to five kilometers (.6 to 3 miles) across, will be the smallest body in the solar system ever studied up close by a spacecraft.
In addition, they depend on an array of specialty devices, such as audio book-readers, color readers, navigation tools, raised Braille labels, special bar-code scanners, and large-buttoned, voice-enabled MP3 players which are prohibitively expensive.
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