You Can Now Be a World-Changer by Participating in Crowdfunding for the Blind
We all want to be the heroes of our own stories. But becoming the hero in someone else’s life is what makes you are a real hero. Especially if by doing so, you get to be part of a global wave of changes, along with others who support the same mission. We believe that...
Rotary dial phone
Description of the image The image shows a classic phone with a disc, viewed from the front. The body of the phone is marked full in relief and has a square shape, with the top edges cut out like halves of circles. In the center of the phone case is a round plastic...
Worker
Description of the image He is a man with short hair and mustache, dressed in a worker uniform, specific to the miners, and he has along his side a mining tool called a pickax. The costume consists of a bodysuit with shoulder straps and chest pocket, marked by...
Yacht
Image description The image shows a luxury ship, small to medium sized, mechanically propelled by an engine, called a yacht, viewed from side and directed to the left. The yacht is a vessel that carries a small number of passengers on board, has a deck and cabins, is...
The Online LIBRARY of Self-Describing Images Revolutionizes the Way Blind Children Learn
The majority of blind people travel only with the help of another person. This dependency is seen especially in the case of children, who cannot get to school without the help of their parents. And this harms their education, primarily visual education, because they...
The READER App shifts the educational paradigm of the blind from 1:1 to 1:1.000.000
Did you know that in 2018 there were 1.025 million blind children in the world? And that the educational development of every child is closely linked to the existence of a teacher? Because their condition requires constant direct interaction with a teacher, they are...
The Labyrinth – A Game for the Blind
Visually-impaired children can play by themselves with the help of tactile graphics. This is a tactile maze that the blind can explore with their fingers to find the way out. It’s as fun as it is for a sighted person! All you have to do is print this tactile...
Alzheimer’s – Family Portrait
This board is an example of versatility. Created for those with memory problems, it is proof that any family photo can self-describe with the Tactile Images READER application. When they forget, Alzheimer’s patients can be helped to remember important moments or...
Due to the “An iPhone for Independent Living” Campaign, the iPhone You Forgot in Your Drawer Can Become the Superhero of a Blind Person
Psychologists state that we spend too much time with our eyes stuck in our smartphones and that we should watch each other in the eyes more often. But there are people whose existence can be radically changed with the help of a smartphone. I’m talking about the...
The Tactile Images READER App Turns the Smartphone into a Vital Tool for the Independent Study of the Blind
If each blind student had a teacher to explain to him, it would be much easier for him to assimilate information. And if he could take his teacher home, to continue his study, it would be even better. It’s already so. Now, any blind person can have a personal...
How to Adapt Tactile Graphics Downloaded from the Online LIBRARY to the Independent Study of a Blind Child Free of Charge
As children grow continuously, they are always in need of updated content to suit their age. And when it comes to blind children, it seems complicated to keep up with all the tactile materials that appear. The e-learning platform tactileimages.org comes to meet the...
You Can Manually Emboss Tactile Graphics with Adhesive, Textile Materials or Food
The term embossing is vital for the study of the blind. For the unsighted, any graphic material must be highlighted to be “visualized” by touch. No exception. In the past, this was an expensive process, attributed to thermoforming techniques. Now you can...
The Zoo-Library of the Blind or the Place Where You Can Download Tactile Graphics with Animals
The blind can now touch the nose of a deer or the wings of a butterfly. And this without going into the forest or the park. In our vast online Library on the e-learning platform tactileimages.org, you can find hundreds of tactile graphics you can download for free....
The Digitization of Tactile Materials – The Effort of the Sighted Leads to the Independent Study of the Blind
Do you have tactile materials at home, created for the study of the blind? It can be sheets, illustrations, books, maps or catalogs. Now you can resort to the digitization of tactile materials to encourage the individual study and independence of the blind. ...
Supermarket facade
Image description The image shows the facade of a supermarket, respectively the frontage with the entrance of a store larger in size and supplies than of a market and smaller than of a hypermarket. The shop is built with ground floor and floor, the ground floor having...
Supermarket inside – aerial plan
Description of the image The image shows the inside of a supermarket, in the form of a square, viewed from above. Along three walls, down, right, top and top corner of the fourth wall , fridges and freezers are located, usually to maintain the optimum condition for...
First floor house
Description of the image This is the facade of a typical house in Bucharest interwar, placed on Vasile Lascăr street, number 63 and viewed from the boulevard. It is a house with a floor, on the ground floor of which is the exhibition space Artera. From the street you...
Tohan Bycicle
Image description The image is a lateral view of the bicycle, pointing to the left. It is of high height, with the saddle next to the short, rounded handlebar. The embossed lines stand for the steel frame of the bicycle. The framework has two big-sized wheels, with...
Mobra Motorbike
Image description The image shows a Romanian model of motorbike, called Mobra, viewed from the side, pointing to the left. The wheels are represented by two embossed circles, placed to the left and to the right of the image, in the center of which are concentrically...
Fishing vessel
Image description The image shows a small vessel, mechanically propelled by a fuel-driven engine,equipped with fishing trawling, and fish storage and freezing facilities, viewed from side and directed to the left. The ship, also called a fishing vessel or trawler, is...
Subway map
Description of the image The image shows the official map of Metrorex, of the underground transport network, respectively of the subway in Bucharest. The capital city Bucharest is rendered full in relief, and over it the Metrorex network unfolds, rendered as thick,...
Romana Square Subway
Description of the image The image shows a subway station, with a platform, on which people are waiting, and in front of it a subway car, more precisely the first in the chain, respectively the main wagon with the driver’s cab on the left. At the top of the...
Subway entrance
Description of the image The image shows the entrance on the subway platform in Bucharest. On the left side there is a cabin, viewed from the lateral side, similar to a kiosk, used as information center and for loading the subway cards, highlighted by a vertical...
Parking space – viewed from above
Image description The image shows a rectangular space, specially designed for parking vehicles, under a limited amount of time, called parking lot and viewed from above. The parking lot illustrated here is a parallel one, the most common in cities, and is...Warning: implode(): Invalid arguments passed in /home/touching/public_html/wp-content/plugins/facebook-pagelike-widget/fb_class.php on line 42
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