Monarch - Multi-line Braille Display

The HumanWare Monarch is a next-generation multiline braille and tactile-graphics device designed to give people who are blind or visually impaired access to text and graphics in a way more akin to reading on paper. Instead of a single-line refreshable display (as with traditional braille displays), Monarch uses a large 10-line by 32-cell dynamic refreshable surface that can raise and lower pins to present braille text and tactile graphics together — for example diagrams, graphs, charts, maps, or illustrations. As such, it works not only as a braille reader, but also as an e-book reader, a tactile graphics viewer, a graphing calculator, and a braille writer/editor — making digital textbooks, math, and graphics accessible in much more inclusive ways.

Manufacturer: Humanware

Monarch Product Features

• Multiline refreshable braille & graphics display: 10 lines × 32 cells made up of 3,840 individual pins, allowing simultaneous rendering of multiple lines of braille text or tactile graphics or a combination of both.
• 8-dot Perkins-style braille keyboard and navigation controls: Built-in keyboard plus navigation buttons (pan, zoom, directional arrows) make reading, editing, and interacting with content intuitive for braille users.
• Support for tactile graphics and diagrams: Monarch can display tactile versions of graphics (like charts, graphs, images, maps), which makes STEM content, diagrams, and complex spatial information accessible.
• Built-in educational tools and content support: Comes with apps (word-processor, braille editor, e-book reader, graphing calculator, tactile-graphics viewer) and supports downloadable textbooks and large tactile graphics libraries — greatly reducing dependence on bespoke tactile-print materials.
• Portable form factor: Roughly the size of a 15″ laptop and weighing under five pounds — portable enough to be used in class, home, or on the go, while bringing full multiline braille and graphics access to the user.