JEDDAH: Saudi student and Engineer Wisam Al-Sabban has designed and carried out studies for an invention enabling blind people to browse the Internet and read content on websites. The TextoBraille system, which consists of a glove and a special keyboard, is based on the Braille language, said Al-Sabban. To use TextoBraille, users wear the glove and move their fingers on the keyboard. As the pointer comes across words and letters, they are translated into Braille in the form of air the user feels through tiny holes in the glove's fingertips, Al-Sabban said. He said the invention, which is in the stages of design and development, was selected as one of the six best student projects in Australia during an annual innovation contest in Sydney. Al-Sabban, who formed a team to conduct tests and research, is working with researcher Khaled Al-Shahrani and mathematician Hala Hijazi. Al-Sabban is a doctorate student on scholarship in Australia, where he is studying Space Science Systems.
