Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

RoboBraille


Description

RoboBraille – An automated solution for making inaccessible documents accessible and available in alternate formats such as audio, large-print and Braille for people with print disabilities. RoboBraille is freely available for individual, non-commercial use.

RoboBraille is an e-mail and web-based service capable of automatically transforming documents into a variety of alternate formats for the visually and reading impaired.

RoboBraille is accessible 24/7 as a self-service solution and is available free of charge to individual, non-commercial user not affiliated with an institutional setting obligated to provide support (academic institution, organisation, association or similar). Users need not register in order to use the service. The objective is to support and promote self-sufficiency of people with special needs socially, throughout the educational system and on the labour market. As an additional benefit, RoboBraille helps to protect the privacy of of those who need material in alternate formats.

Project website

http://www.robobraille.org/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C7. E-health 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being
  • Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • Eastern Europe
  • Western Europe and North America

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2011

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • People with disabilities
  • visually and reading impaired

WSIS values promotion

RoboBraille is an e-mail and web-based service capable of automatically transforming documents into a variety of alternate formats for the visually and reading impaired.


Entity name

RoboBraille

Entity country—type

Denmark Civil Society

Entity website

http://www.robobraille.org/