Other Braille Writing Tools. The slate and stylus system is the oldest of the braille writing systems. It’s portable and allows users to write braille by hand. Over the years, ...

Engineering students at Johns Hopkins University invented a printer for a Maryland brewery that adds braille writing to beer ...

This Braille Literacy Month, Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave podcast reports on the writing system and how some researchers are working to lessen the national shortage of qualified braille educators.

To help provide a low-cost communication tool for blind people, undergraduates at Johns Hopkins have invented a lightweight, portable Braille writing device that requires no electronic components.

Reem Ghajdam, a university student at the Higher Institute of Information and Communication, said writing a single three-hour exam in Braille can take up to six pages and cause significant fatigue.

Braille has been used to represent more than 50 world languages, as well as math and scientific figures and musical notation. (The tactile writing system was created in France in 1829, building ...

A major problem with a wide array of these tools is that they can cost a fortune. [3D Printy] hoped to bring the cost down for Braille trainers which can often cost around $1000.