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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...

With schools closed, teachers all over the world are now resorting to online tools. Zoom is the new classroom, where teachers talk to children, share ideas and visuals through slides and PowerPoint presentations. If for sighted children, switching to online might be...

Thematic and informative, tactile catalogs represent an excellent means of acquiring spatial knowledge for blind people. They can come in different shapes and dimensions, but they all have something in common - they can only be explored with the help of another...

People with Alzheimer’s disease suffer from memory loss, thinking, and behavioral problems. This might lead to the inability to recognize people - even the most important ones in their lives, like parents, children, husbands, or wives. We now give people with...

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...

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...

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...

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....