posted on 2018-12-20, 00:00authored byErmyas Abebe, Alessio BontiAlessio Bonti, Nicholas Waywood, Adam Eberbach, Peter Ilfritch
A refreshable Braille display device includes a housing having a surface containing a set of tactile markers thereon; a carriage in cooperation with the housing, the carriage having a surface containing a tactile marker thereon and a series of individual refreshable Braille cells positioned above the tactile marker for tactile reading by a user; and a moving mechanism for moving the carriage relative to the housing such that the tactile marker on the surface of the carriage is aligned with one of the tactile markers in the set of tactile markers on the surface of the housing.