Textured Cards for the Blind

Holly by Hannah Horner - The Hadley School for the Blind

Two nonprofits supporting the blind and visually impaired have new cards up this week.  What's interesting about these is that people with limited sight can trace the designs with their fingers.

The Cleveland Sight Center offers several designs in braille: a snowflake, menorah, Kwanzaa candles, and tree. The cards cost $1 each; you can add a customized braille greeting inside.

(The Sight Center provides "preventative, educational, rehabilitative, and other vision support services to approximately 10,000 clients in the greater Cleveland area each year.")

Braille Snowflake - Cleveland Sight Center

This year, The Hadley School for the Blind held a card design competition among local students.  High school student Hannah Horner's winning designs -- a holly sprig and wreath-adorned doorway -- are embossed, so that people who can't see well can touch the designs. 

The greetings inside appear in braille and print.

(Based in Winnetka, Illinois, Hadley "promotes independent living through lifelong, distance education programs" for people who are blind or visually impaired. Each year it serves more than 10,000 students from all 50 states and 100 countries.)

Both organizations receive high ratings from Charity Navigator.

Anne