The city of Bloomington will unveil the park system’s first tactile map on Friday. Here’s what it is and where you can experience it. What is a tactile map? The map features raised textures, braille ...
Children climb on a play structure July 4, 2021, during the grand opening of the new Funland Playground in Hermiston. The city’s parks and recreation department and the Hermiston Lions Club are ...
Joshua Hori started project with a grant from Student Affairs Professor Susan Verba created a class to work on the design Try the map at Disability Awareness Symposium, Oct. 12 UC Davis has unveiled ...
Innovative map helps visitors who are blind or have low vision navigate the park independently. The following is a press release written by Hsiung Marler and Michael Shermis for The City of ...
Braille wasn’t widely in use in the 1830s, but Samuel Gridley Howe, founder and president of the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind, wanted to develop an atlas that his students ...
Connecting with Art: The Tactile Gallery was created for visitors to the Saint Louis University Museum of Art to experience art through touch. The gallery has two rooms with artworks on display from ...
A new tactile map installed near Jesse Hall is the first of its kind for MU. The map, unveiled Dec. 3 to celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, features hard plastic versions of ...