Talking face to face is about more than sharing ideas vocally. It’s about expressing feelings through facial expressions or supporting those ideas through body language. The blind do not have access to facial features and expressions, and this represents a significant...
Image description The image shows from side, an electric locomotive responsible for the propulsion of the other coupled cargo wagons, provided with two driving positions, in the left and right ends, these being used depending on the direction of travel of the train....
Tactile graphics are challenging to create. They require a specific drawing technique, special materials, and a substantial financial effort. Most importantly, their exploration involves the presence of another person, the specialist who guides the blind. Tactile...
We are Tactile Images, and we aim to revolutionize the world of the blind. Do you like to translate from Romanian to English? You can volunteer and help us make our solution visible to all the blind people in the world! Here’s how! The Tactile Images revolution...
We aim to see that all blind people in the world can study tactile graphics independently. We created the mobile app READER to give them a virtual assistant. The app makes use of modern technologies to turn into the specialist above the shoulder, who can now be taken...
A plain sheet of paper can turn into a self-describing tactile graphic. Of course, the drawing must be embossed for the blind to be able to touch and perceive it, but how is a tactile drawing able to self-describe, you might ask? That happens with the aid of a QR...
We acknowledge the importance of visual content in creating accurate mental images of the world, and we want to offer the blind the opportunity to explore as many tactile graphics as possible. We created more than just a LIBRARY of tactile graphics. We created a...
Image description The image shows an electric locomotive viewed from its frontage, respectively, is illustrated the facade of the motor wagon, responsible for the propulsion of the other cargo wagons. The locomotive, viewed from the front, is rendered like a square,...
Image description The image shows from side an open hopper wagon assigned for the freight trains, intended for the transport of various goods, construction materials or other loads. The wagon consists of a platform support and a container in which the goods are...
Image description The image shows from side, facing left, the first Romanian steam locomotive. The iron car body or exterior skeleton is marked embossed. The locomotive consists, from right to left, of: the driver’s cab rendered embossed, the heavy iron frame on...
Image description The image shows a gas station, seen from above, consisting of a specially designed space with parking lot, supermarket and the necessary equipment to supply fuel to cars and cover a basic range of passenger needs. The gas station supermarket is...
Image description The image shows a gas station, with a building located in the middle, which usually runs as a shop or supermarket, along with two fuel dispensers, and the vehicles parked next to them. The fuel dispensers or the gas station pumps, used for filling...
Image description The image shows a Romanian model of the ARO car, respectively two hundred sixty-four, with five seats and four doors, viewed from side, facing left. It is a squarish, off-road, massive, heavy car, with a high body car and a spacious passenger volume,...
Image description The image shows from side a train, consisting of several wagons linked by a locomotive. The wagons are reduced in number to a single one, on the right side, connected to the locomotive on the left, represented in the form of a rectangle, at the base...
Image description The image shows, from above, the inside of a subway wagon, represented as a rectangular box, contoured with a thick line. The double doors, three on one side and three on the other, are rendered through a short thick line segment. Along the contour...
Image description The image shows a subway wagon, viewed from the profile, represented in the form of a rectangular box, with rounded corners. At the base of it are two pairs of wheels, on the left and right edge, one of them illustrated in profile and rendered as...
Image description The image shows a massive, eight-wheeled vehicle, called a truck, viewed from side and facing left. It is distinguished from other vehicles by the fact that it is designed with a rectangular platform, at the back of the driver’s cab, on which...
Image description The image shows a model of a frog-type car, from the original Volkswagen beetle, seen from side, facing left. It is a rounded, compact car with domed corners and oval roof, with low height body car, being designed as a city car. The exterior skeleton...
Image description The image shows from side, above, and from the inside, sectioned, below, a vehicle used for railway transport, consisting of three connected wagons, on electric traction, pulled on rails by a motor wagon, facing left and called a tram. At the top,...
Image description The image shows from side an underground mode of transport, consisting of several connected wagons, called the subway or the metro. The wagons are represented in the form of rectangles with rounded corners, at the base of which are the wheels, marked...
Great achievements don’t happen overnight. The Tactile Images educational platform for the blind stands on an NGO’s decade of hard work. A 2010 idea is now a grand dream that gets closer and closer to its fruition with every project. The Urban Development Association...
The coronavirus pandemic should not put the education of blind children on hold. Blind children should be able to continue studying, no matter the circumstances. If usually, they are unable to explore visuals without their teachers, who guide their hands, we are here...
Classes have moved online, and teachers are now using all the tools they have on the Internet to carry out their lessons. In the time of coronavirus, teachers of the blind are challenged more than teachers in mass schools because blind children are dependent on them....
The coronavirus pandemic made an impact on all systems in society, including the educational system. In this context of imposed homeschooling, parents become intermediates between teachers and children, even more so in the case of blind children, who are dependent on...
Louis Braille, the creator of the Braille alphabet, gave the blind reading independence almost 200 years ago. Now, blind children learn the embossed symbols just like sighted ones learn the letters of the alphabet. But this is a lengthy process, which can be carried...
