With the FingerReader, all a visually impaired user needs is to do is point. Print is everywhere. But rarely does a menu, magazine, or business card get translated into Braille. For situations in ...

“Encourage exploration with the hands,” says Jackie Anderson, who taught blind students in Cobb County, Ga., for a decade and helped develop the National Federation of the Blind’s nationwide summer ...

NPR's Robert Smith reports on how new technology is giving blind people alternatives to Braille. The National Federation of the Blind estimates that only 10 percent of people without sight in the U.S.