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Dr. Roxana Elena Cziker has twenty-four years of experience in research, assessment, rehabilitation of functional vision, and building services for children and adults with visual disabilities, cerebral visual impairment, and additional disabilities. We are honoured...

If there is something we learnt from the coronavirus pandemic is that now, more than ever, children with visual impairments need accessible materials and a teacher next to them. They need someone to teach them how the world looks. Without access to boarding schools,...

Bucharest, Romania. November 2020. The Urban Development Association and The Orange Foundation (Romania) are launching Image Creator, the first software in the world that allows the creation of interactive tactile drawings that self-describe via audio output and can...

Means of transportation play an essential role in our lives. There are a lot of train lovers out there or car collectors. Blind people, on the other hand, struggle to know how a car, plane, or yacht looks. We created the ”Vehicles” tactile catalog of vehicles to allow...

Maps and portraits of personalities are essential tools in Geography and History lessons. But the blind have little access to spatial information because tactile graphics are expensive to produce. We are creating a self-describing tactile catalog of portraits to help...

Blind people relate to the things around them by touch. They can touch a laptop or a glass of water to perceive their height, thickness, and size. But what about smaller or bigger objects? How do they discover spiders or cathedrals? By exploring tactile graphics or a...

Self-describing tactile catalogs have a twofold mission: they help enrich the curricula and empower blind children to explore independently. They contain graphics of objects cannot be explored in real life, such as a fly, a yacht, or even portraits. Because blind...

Educational materials for the blind are costly. Although there are many free online libraries of tactile graphics available, embossing is still a problem for most of the parents of blind children. This is why we came up with a way for you to emboss tactile graphics at...

The Tactile Images READER app is here to play the role of the person over the shoulder, to help blind people explore tactile graphics - drawings with raised surfaces - independently. Because it uses artificial intelligence and interactive augmented reality to help...

With all the assistive technology available today, studying visuals is still difficult for blind people. Although there are already some solutions that allow the blind to explore tactile graphics independently, they are all costly, and they limit the exploration...

Hands are what turn blind persons into explorers. With them, they get to touch dear faces to discover what a smile looks like or different objects to explore the world slowly. But life is full of intangible things, to which the blind do not have direct access. Now you...

To learn what a butterfly, a building, or a map looks like, a blind child needs a tactile graphic - simplified and embossed drawing. Moreover, they need another person, a specialist, to guide their hand on the tactile drawing and to simultaneously provide them with...

Studying tactile graphics is and has always been a complex process. For blind people to have access to visual content, expensive materials, time, and specialized persons are required. Because this significantly slows down the educational process of blind children and,...

Our dream is to empower blind people all over the world. This is why we thought of a solution to revolutionize their education - an e-learning platform with self-describing tactile graphics, a mobile app which allows them to study tactile graphics independently and a...

We see maps, pictures, paintings in a blink. It takes just a moment to gather a significant amount of visual information. For blind people, on the other hand, exploring a tactile graphic - a simplified and embossed drawing takes a lot of time. Not to mention that they...