What is computer braille? Are there different flavours? What are all the signs? Why would you want to use it? Is it still relevant now that we have UE...

Dave Williams, Chairman of the Braillists, explored how to use braille displays with various combinations of screen reader and web browser, unpicked s...

How many listeners remember Talks? The popular screen reader for Series 60 and other phones running the Symbian operating system. It first came to the...

Most of us know about grade 2, of course, with its 180 contractions designed to make braille quicker to read and write and occupy less space. Grade 3 ...

“Most of us who know braille were taught it.” It sounds like such an obvious statement – so obvious, in fact, that it seems appropriate to conclude th...

In Using Braille on Windows, we introduced you to the basics of making a braille display work with various screen readers. In this session, we took th...

After a recap of octave signs and intervals, this session covered: Word signs Ties and slurs Phrase marks You can follow Stuart on Twittre (@stuartlaw...

We’re almost exactly a month away from the opening night of the BBC Proms, the world famous summer season of concerts of classical music founded in 18...

Over the years, blind people have benefitted from incredible enhancements in the fields of electronic braille and accessibility in general. In fact, i...

Parents reading with their children: it’s an experience common to many households in virtually every country of the world. It’s a uniquely special exp...