In the mid-1800s, the invention of the Braille system radically changed the lives of millions of visually impaired people around the world — but how much do you know about the person who created it?

which lends over 1 million eBooks and eAudiobooks annually through the Libby app. The Washington Talking Book and Braille Library would also be profoundly affected,” Perkins said.

(AP Photo/Moustapha Diallo) A Braille alphabet on display in Bamako, Mali, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Moustapha Diallo) Ali Moustapha Dicko, who teaches at the institute for the blind, shows the ...

He later attended university. Ali Moustapha Dicko, who teaches at the institute for the blind, shows the use of a Standard Perkins Braille machine on Jan. 15 in Bamako, Mali. The Associated Press ...

Retina UK's Sight Loss Survey; CSUN Assistive Technology Conference Where do you go if you need to repair your Perkins brailler? That is the type-writer like machine that allows braillists to ...

But also braille books, his adaptive computer and his cobalt blue Light-Touch Perkins Brailler – a nine-key typewriter, not unlike a court reporter's stenotype machine, that many experts ...

He fixes Braille typewriters for a living and is the UK's only remaining certified fixer of the Perkins Brailler - a typewriting machine for people who are visually impaired. "I want to pass my ...

Perkins School for the Blind is launching a ... conduct vision assessments and teach skills like reading braille. However, a national shortage of these educators means some kids go without their ...