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The Country of the Blind

99% Invisible

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The History of Blind Reading

Blind and sighted designers have been arguing over how to translate the visual, ink print book into an accessible form for people without sight. Sighted designers have made incredible breakthroughs to create non-visual forms of reading for blind people. The history of blind reading is really the history of finding a new language for the fingers and for the ears.

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