Latest News
- Battle of the Braille Keyboards, Tuesday at 7:30 PM
There are two well-known braille keyboards on the market today, the Orbit Writer and the Hable One. What are the similarities? What are the differences? Which one would suit your needs best?
This Tuesday at 7:30 PM, we’ll be joined by a user of each keyboard. They will tell us more about how their preferred keyboard works and why they like it, and we will learn how they compare against each other.
To join by telephone, please use these details:
- Phone number: 0131 460 1196
- Meeting ID: 824 7645 2710
- Passcode: 123456
- New Braille for Beginners Course Coming Soon
Since 2020, the Braillists Foundation has helped over 250 people learn braille through its revolutionary Braille for Beginners programme. Taught remotely by expert braille tutors, it has increased the independence of dozens of blind and partially sighted adults by teaching them to read the entire braille alphabet, numbers and punctuation, and equipping them with the skills to develop their braille writing.
We are now ready to lift the lid on the next phase of this pioneering project, which will allow us to reach hundreds more blind and partially sighted people who wish to learn to read braille by touch. We will be holding a special launch event for this new course during National Braille Week, and we’d love to see you there!
At the event, you will hear first-hand from the people who put the course together, alongside past participants and established braille users. We will demonstrate the profound impact that braille has had on the lives of people who have learnt it and explain how this new incarnation of Braille for Beginners will work.
Join us on Zoom at 7:00 PM BST on Monday 10 October and help us change the lives of blind and partially sighted people.
The Braillists is a grass-roots community group connecting Braille readers with Braille technology developers and funders.
Braille is a simple code for representing written language. Almost anyone can learn the Braille alphabet and numbers in under an hour.
We believe Braille has the potential to transform the life of any blind person who has the opportunity to learn it.
Our Aims
- Promote the value of Braille as a proven literacy tool that enriches the lives of blind people.
- Support efforts to make affordable Braille and tactile reading technologies available to all blind people irrespective of education and employment status.
- Provide an open forum for the exchange of ideas about the development of future Braille technology.
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Join the conversation and meet other Braillists on our discussion forum.
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Listen to some braille-related audio on Soundcloud (braillists).
Resources
- About Braille from the National Braille Press
- Louis Braille Biography from the American Foundation for the Blind
- BrailleCast – a podcast produced by Braillists members
Please see our Sponsors and Partners for information on organisations who are supporting us.
Get IN Touch
Email [email protected] or call 020 3893 3392. Further details on our Contact Us page.