Current projects
The Canute Tactile Commons, sponsored by the Vietsch Foundation
The universal tactile interface for public APIs for blind developers and researchers…
Awards
Most Innovative Braille Solutions Provider 2024
2024. Awarded to Vision Through Sound by SME News, Midlands Enterprise Awards.
Winner – Sage Small Business XI competition
2023. Sage
The Idea Fund
2023. The Prospectory
Most Innovative New Learning Technologies Product – Bronze
2023. Learning Technologies Awards
The Good Award
2023. The SPARKies
CreaTech 100: 100 Ones to Watch
2021. Awarded by: Creative Industries Council.
Dr Jacob Bolotin Award
2019. Awarded by: National Federation of the Blind.
Touch of Genius Prize
2018. Awarded by: National Braille Press.
Inventor Prize Recognition Award
2018. Awarded by: NESTA, BEIS HMG.
Deutscher Ebook Award
2017. Awarded by: Deutscher Ebook Award, Frankfurt Bookfair.
Tech4Good Accessibility Award
2017. Awarded by: AbilityNet.
Social Entrepreneurs Innovation Award
2016. Awarded by: PWC.
Stephen Lloyd Award
2016. Awarded by: Bates Wells Foundation.
Other selected commissions and projects
The Canute Console (ongoing)
2023. Partners: Ufi, InnovateUK, ChildVision, Fenix Editorial, AT Guys, Canadian Assistive Technology, Dancing Dots, American Thermoform, and Early Bird customers including Darren Paskell, Dean Wilcox, Erich Schmid, Falk Rismansanj, Ellie Clark, Iki Nahaboo, Florian Beijers and Norman Waddington.
Canute 360: Batch 4 (ongoing)
2022–. Partners: Philtronics, InnovateUK.
Canutes for publishing and Computer Science (ongoing)
2021–2023. Partners: InnovateUK and Ufi (Computer Science), UWE (publishing); Braillists Foundation.
Canute 360: Batch 3
2021. Partners: Philtronics; AT Guys, Techno-Vision, Canadian Assistive Technology, Dancing Dots, Quantum, American Thermoform; National Federation of the Blind, American Action Fund, UnLtd Inclusive Recovery Fund, Resonance.
Braille equipment and lessons with the Braillists (ongoing)
2020–. Run by: The Braillists Foundation. Partners: BBT, the Churchill Fellowship (nee Winston Churchill Memorial Trust), Aviva, Worth Trust.
Canute 360: Batch 2
2019–20. Partners: Philtronics; AT Guys, Techno-Vision, Canadian Assistive Technology, Dancing Dots, American Thermoform, National Braille Press, APH, ChildVision; Thomas Pocklington Trust, Veronica Awdry Charitable Trust, Helianthus CT, Ulverscroft, Woodroffe Benton, William Cadbury.
Canute 360: Trials
2019. Partners: Philtronics; CNIB, APH, NFB, AAF; Braillists Foundation, Bristol Hackspace.
‘Around India with a Canute’
2017. Run by: Ed Rogers. Partners: BBT, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
Canute prototyping and trials: Mk8–13
2016–19. Clovernook, APH; Esmee Fairbairn, Resonance; REACH, John James Bristol Trust, NESTA, Business West, Comic Relief, PWC Foundation, Arup, Santander, BWB Charitable Inc, SW Manufacturing Advisory Service, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Merchant Venturers, Company of Information Technologists; Braillists Foundation, Bristol Hackspace.
Canute prototyping and trials: Mk5–7
2014–15. Partners: Information Technologists, Nominet Trust, Innovation4Growth, School for Social Entrepreneurs, Product Development Centre; Braillists Foundation, Bristol Hackspace.
Midas
2014. Partners: Braillists Foundation.
The Braillists Foundation (ongoing)
2014–. Partners: Braillists Foundation.
Canute prototypes: Mk1–4
2012–14. Partners: School for Social Entrepreneurs, UnLtd, iNet Microelectronics, PM Studio; Bristol Hackspace.
Quixote
2010–12. Partners: PM Studio, Transforming Braille Group.
Open Braille display design collaborations (ongoing)
2008–. Partners: Vidya Vrikshah, numerous.
