Aim

Braille remote-learning equipment for blind adults and children, to improve education, employment and reading for pleasure

We are the not-for-profit Bristol Braille Technology CIC.

Our team of sighted and blind people work with the Braillists Foundation to design and make Braille reading equipment for our blind community. Now we are repurposing this equipment to help those effected by lockdown.

Blind people who learn Braille are twice as likely to be employed. Post-pandemic, we are staring into the face of a deep recession, where unemployment will be high, so it is more vital than ever that Braille provision and teaching continues.

We have developed the revolutionary new Canute 360, the world's only affordable full-page Braille display. We released this earlier this year, just before the pandemic put a halt to further production.

Therefore we have decided we will make a full package of Braille learning and reading equipment available for members of the blind community. We will use our extensive experience of Braille and our close connections to the community to deliver this, and deliver it fast.

The centre piece of this will be full-page electronic Braille displays pre-loaded with learning courses for Braille, sheet music in Braille, and over three hundred books for practice and pleasure.

Accompanying this will be Braille writing equipment called the pocket frame, for taking notes and following along with courses, as well as Braille typewriters and tactile diagrams.

Thank you

The team at Bristol Braille Technology CIC

This project successfully funded on 7th October 2020