Where do you go if you need to repair your Perkins brailler? That is the type-writer like machine that allows braillists to produce writing for school, work or leisure. Recent publicity that the ...

A Braille teacher from Sheffield has called for more opportunities for people to learn the six-dot tactile reading system.

Peter White's object is his Perkins Brailler. It is a Braille writing machine that works when 6 keys press holes in paper from underneath. By using different combinations of these keys the user ...

Courtesy of Perkins School for the Blind Archives. Helen Keller was born in 1880, just over 50 years after Louis Braille published his eponymous writing system. Braille, who was three when an acci ...

Alan Thorpe teaches the tactile writing system and fixes Braille ... and is the UK's only remaining certified fixer of the Perkins Brailler - a typewriting machine for people who are visually ...