The new TalkBack keyboard for Android devices uses six zones on screen to represent the six dots of the braille alphabet. Braille has been helping the blind and vision-impaired to read and communicate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three years ago, Umang Sharma could be found on his bedroom floor disassembling a computer keyboard to learn about the mechanisms ...

For people who are blind or have severely impaired vision, typing on a smartphone or computer typically requires an expensive and bulky physical braille computer – not exactly convenient if you just ...

Google said that it worked with Braille developers and users to develop this virtual keyboard. According to the company, anyone who has typed Braille before will be familiar with this keyboard. The ...

Google has released the TalkBack braille keyboard on Android to allow users who are vision impaired or have low vision to type on their phones without any additional hardware. According to Google ...

If you have a serious visual impairment, using a computer isn’t easy. [Dhiraj] has a project that allows people fluent in Braille to use that language for input. In addition to having a set position ...

Each summer, Stanford University invites students from around the United States to come up with innovative applications for computers. This year's winning team came up with a touchscreen keyboard for ...