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...
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
Getty Images
CU Detail of man reading book / United States
CU Detail of man reading book / United States
Getty Images
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
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 and is now a full time fighter for the rights and opportunities of Ethiopia's millions of disabled people
Curated Video
A three-year pilot program called iCanConnect is helping low-income deaf-blind individuals get access to the latest telecommunications technology. (April 8)
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SOUNDBITE: ADRIANA ANTOCI/Program Participant: **THROUGH SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR**
"It was really a depressing situation for myself. So I went back to home. And I lost everything. I felt...
Curated Video
RR7928B YUGOSLAVIA: DEALING WITH BLINDNESS
This recent report from Yugoslavia contains no major
breakthroughs, no revolutionary new treatments. But
it does provide a progress report on how one country
is rejecting the idea that blind people should be
institutionalised and...
Curated Video
Braille Literacy Facing Record Low Turns to Tech
IT WAS ONCE THE ONLY PATH TO LITERACY FOR BLIND PEOPLE, BUT NOW, PRINTED BRAILLE IS FACING A STEEP DECLINE BECAUSE OF NEW TECHNOLOGY.
SOUNDBITE (English) Technology specialist, Braille & Talking Book Library: "It is my...
Curated Video
Blind children in North Korea learn computer skills
Blind children in North Korea have been learning how to use computers, thanks to a pioneering project led by a young German living in Pyongyang, who is himself deaf and mute.
Special paper and equipment for printing Braille, donated from...
Bloomberg
Intel Invests in Young Inventors Braille Printer Project
Dec. 22 -- Braigo Labs Founder and CEO Shubham Banerjee discusses building Braille printers from Legos. He speaks on Bloomberg West. (Source: Bloomberg)
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Blind children defy bad karma to play in Thai orchestra
Using their own form of braille the children of Thailands first blind orchestra fill the concert hall with music as well as hope of a better future in a country where provision for the disabled has been hampered by the belief they are...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Blind Malaysian Muslims study Quran using Braille
A small community of blind students in Malaysia is attempting to learn the entire Quran a task that requires them to read each sheet of the holy text up to 40 times and memorise close to two pages a day