Sentences with phrase «read braille»

He recently started learning how to read braille when his wife signed the whole family up for a braille weekend class, just for something different.

In the past, people with vision challenges have had to rely on audiobooks or Siri to translate text on smartphones and tablets, but now blind people are empowered to read braille from a smart device.

This group included war - blinded soldiers and blind civilians who couldn't read braille.

(That is unless your target audience is people who only read braille.)

When he asked them to read braille with their reading fingers, their visual cortex lit up.

As they read braille with their fingertips, they may experience it visually.

This is not just a metaphor or a manner of speaking; functional imagery of their visual cortex shows that it is activated as they read braille.

Playing an instrument or reading braille on a regular basis improves both the motor skills and the sense of touch — because practising results in changes within the brain.

Nook Touch used touch as a differentiator even though touch has nothing to do with reading (unless you're reading braille).

Not exact matches

Trying to read the Bible without the Holy Spirit is like a blind man trying to read a book without braille.

6 — Trying to read the Bible without the Holy Spirit is like a blind man trying to read a book without braille.

He's also eager to program devices that teach other skills — braille or stenography, for instance — while the user reads, say, Chuck Norris Can not Be Stopped.

Competitors have to be good at everything — braille, cryptography, Java, origami, base 16, flag signals, integer sequences, tarot cards, map reading, and Mandarin Chinese.

A novel display may soon help blind people perceive photographs and other images by touch, much as the braille alphabet allows them to read words.

The text describes the life and work of the inventor of the braille reading system for the blind Louis Braillei.

As a part of the certification process, teachers certified in the education of blind and visually impaired students shall be required to demonstrate competence in reading, writing, and teaching braille pursuant to standards adopted by the Department of Education, comparable to the braille reading and writing standards adopted by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C..

The iOS app also allows users to read character - by - character, word - by - word and line - by - line and supports the usual iOS accessibility features like zoom, assistive touch and support for peripheral braille displays.

Most people can walk into a library, pick up a book and read it, but a person with a visual impairment or a reading disability such as dyslexia must rely on computer assistance, using software that reads digital text out loud, enlarges the type on a screen or converts the text to braille.

Existing braille devices only read one line of text per page and cost around $ 2,500.

You can control what is read to you by moving the cursor to the relevant area of text with a mouse or the arrows on your keyboard and it also can convert text to braille if you have an add - on.

Mr Dipendra Manocha, President of the DAISY Forum of India and founder of Saksham stated «With development of affordable reading devices in Indian languages and braille presses connected to a common online platform, having a collection of about 3.5 lakh accessible format books.

You could also use the attribute to distinguish a textual rendition, where braille would be generated on the fly, from a tactile rendition optimized for reading on a refreshable braille device:

Imagine how exciting it might be in the future for children who rely on braille to have access to a library of eBooks that can be read in braille.

A blind person may want to read it on his refreshable braille display.

Whereas previously I would have had to wait, probably in vain, for books I heard about on the radio to be turned into braille or produced as talking books, now I can buy and read books of all sorts when I want to read them and on the same terms as anyone else.

With this update, VoiceView customers can read Kindle e-Books, browse the web, and otherwise interact with their Fire tablet using a Bluetooth - connected braille display.

Customers can both input and read text using English contracted and uncontracted braille, Unified English braille, and computer braille codes.

They sent on letter for his father to read and a letter in braille so Hibiki could read it himself.

People type on the keyboard, I read in digital braille.

This covers information regarding the installation of braille system on your PC, navigation and reading texts.

Alongside the ability to type and read using braille, it's now possible to perform braille input for apps shortcuts and modifier keys that enable you to use a braille display for common tasks.

Crisp and clean fonts are important for screen readers — software programs that use a voice synthesizer or braille display to help blind or visually impaired users read text on the web.