TED Talks
TED: How new technology helps blind people explore the world | Chieko Asakawa
How can technology help improve our quality of life? How can we navigate the world without using the sense of vision? Inventor and IBM Fellow Chieko Asakawa, who's been blind since the age of fourteen, is working on answering these...
Wonderscape
Understanding Hearing and Visual Disabilities
This video discusses hearing and visual disabilities, highlighting various tools and symbols that aid accessibility for individuals with these impairments. It explains that hearing loss can vary in degree and may be mitigated with...
Curated Video
Louis Braille for Kids | Bedtime History
Discover the remarkable story of Louis Braille, the inventor of the Braille system of reading and writing used by people who are visually impaired. Born in 1809 in France, Louis became blind after a childhood accident. Despite his...
Curated Video
Young Innovators: Transforming Everyday Challenges with Ingenious Inventions
Explore the fascinating world of young inventors who transform daily inconveniences into innovative solutions. From an automatic laundry-protecting tarpaulin to a bicycle that changes gears by itself, this video showcases how creative...
Bedtime History
Helen Keller’s Inspiring Life
Helen Keller was a pioneer in the disability rights movement. She was also a pacifist, advocate for workers’ rights, and supporter of women’s suffrage. Her life began with childhood struggles when she lost the ability to both see or...
Science Buddies
Write and Read Braille
Have you ever been in an elevator and wondered what the many little dots on the buttons are for? You can also find these dots in public buildings on room number signs or on ATMs. These arrangements of dots are a special writing system...
Curated Video
10-year-old Sask. boy qualifies for international braille competition
Isaiah Gauthier of Martensville is the first Saskatchewan student to qualify for the Braille Challenge Finals, an international competition. Only 50 people were chosen from more than 1,000 who competed across the world.
Curated Video
Kamloops, B.C, school builds braille library for 8-year-old student
Michael Barrett, 8, is an avid reader but he's visually impaired. The community at R.L. Clemitson Elementary rallied to help build the district's first braille library.
Curated Video
Young football fan creates World Cup sticker book in braille
Young football fan creates World Cup sticker book in braille
Curated Video
Boy helps bring 2022 World Cup sticker album to the blind
Sebastian Filoramo, a 12-year-old boy from Venezuela who is blind, enlisted the help of his dad to adapt the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 sticker album to include braille, making it more accessible for those who are visually impaired. He...
Curated Video
Companies pursue inclusivity with accessible packaging
Canadian chocolate maker Purdys is the latest company to release accessible packaging, with a new chocolate box that features Braille lettering for people who are blind or have low vision. It's a growing trend aimed at making products...
Curated Video
Self-service braille printer opens to the public at Kwantlen’s Surrey campus
Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Surrey campus is unveiling a device it hopes will make a mark when it comes to accessibility, especially for people who are visually impaired. As Liam Britten reports, it’s a printer that can allow...
Curated Video
Self-service braille printer open to the public at Kwantlen’s Surrey campus
Kwantlen Polytechnic University is unveiling a device it hopes will make a mark when it comes to accessibility for people who are visually impaired. As Liam Britten reports, it’s a printer that can allow anyone to make documents in braille.
Curated Video
Canada's Dubreuil speed skates to Four Continents silver medal
Quebec City's Laurent Dubreuil crossed the 500-metre finish line with a silver medal winning time of 34.68 Saturday at the Four Continents event in Hachinohe City, Japan.
Hearst Metrotone News
A blind man wearing dark glasses reads Braille.
A blind man wearing dark glasses reads Braille.
Hearst Metrotone News
A blind woman operates a telephone switchboard with the help of a Braille panel.
A blind woman operates a telephone switchboard with the help of a Braille panel.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Louis Braille reinterred in Paris' Pantheon
Title card: "Louis Braille...Blind honor founder of touch reading" / People at the iron gates of the National Institute for the Young Blind with a draped tricolor flag / A ribbon on a wreath of roses, "Union des Aveugles de Guerre,...
Getty Images
CU Shot of braille pages at Milton Margai School for blind / Freetown, Sierra Leone
CU Shot of braille pages at Milton Margai School for blind / Freetown, Sierra Leone
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CU Detail of man reading book / United States
CU Detail of man reading book / United States
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CU Detail of man reading book / United States
CU Detail of man reading book / United States
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : For Ethiopian rights advocate not seeing is no obstacle
Disability activist Yetnebersh Nigussie pushed for her university to provide braille textbooks for blind students like herself she is now a full time fighter for the rights and opportunities of Ethiopia's millions of disabled people