Expert profile: Meet Dr. Roxana Elena Cziker, Special Education Specialist
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...
New steps towards the accessible education of blind and visually impaired children
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,...
Image Creator: The First Software in the World that Creates Interactive Drawings for Visually Impaired Children
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...
With the “Vehicles” Self-Describing Tactile Catalog, Blind People Can Explore Cars, Bikes, Planes and Many Other Means of Transportation Independently
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...
The “Portraits” Self-Describing Tactile Catalog Will Act As a History Schoolbook for Blind Children
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...
The “Urban Landscapes” Self-Describing Tactile Catalog Helps Blind People Explore City Life Symbols Independently
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...
Discover the Tactile Images Self-Describing Tactile Catalogs
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...
Use Wood Adhesive and A Syringe to Emboss Tactile Graphics at Home
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...
7 Reason Why the Tactile Images READER Mobile App for the Blind Needs Your Support
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...
The Free Mobile Solution That Empowers The Blind to Explore Tactile Graphics Independently
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...
#SendAHand for the blind: a 10-second video of your hand can help the blind understand the world better
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...
The E-learning Platform Tactile Images Is an Educational Innovation Dedicated to Blind People
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...
Spatial Education for the Blind: Easy, Fast and Inexpensive
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,...
The E-Learning Platform for the Blind – Our Journey from Free (Now) to Freemium (Soon)
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...
Blind Children Can Now Explore Tactile Graphics at Their Own Pace
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...
We Are Here to Help the Teachers of Blind Children Teach Visual Content While in Lock-Down
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...
The “Tactile Network” Self-Describing Catalog Will Act As a Science Schoolbook for Blind Children
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...
Self-Describing Pictures Help People with Alzheimer’s Disease Reconnect with Loved Ones Independently
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...
A Blind Person’s Odyseey – Searching for the Face behind the Voice
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...
What Are Tactile Images?
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...
Romanian Translators Can Volunteer to Help Revolutionize the World of the Blind
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...
This is How the READER App Helps Explore a Self-Describing Tactile Graphic
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...
How to Personalize Your Unique QR Code for Self-Describing Tactile Graphics
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...
Exploring Self-Describing Tactile Graphics with the READER App or Just a Smartphone
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...Like Us On Facebook
