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Send your New Year message in Braille04.01.08

  • This is the first online Braille writing application which allows people to send ‘secret’ messages and has been created to support Royal Blind's National Braille Week (4-10 January, 2008)

  • In a survey 88% of people listed sight as their most important sense and almost half said the thing they would miss most if they were blind would be seeing their friends and family.(1)

  • 2 million people in >UK have sight problems. Over 370,000 are registered as blind or partially sighted and around 20,000 say that Braille is their preferred reading medium although many others use it for labelling.(2)

  • The Royal Blind's Scottish Braille Press produced 6 million pages of Braille last year.

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First online Braille messages created by Yomego03.01.08

The first online Braille writing application which allows people to send 'secret' messages has been created by social media company Yomego to support Royal Blind's National Braille Week (Jan 4-10, 2008).

Visitors to www.nationalbrailleweek.org (officially live on 4th January 2008) will be able to send an e-card with their messages rendered into a Braille image using the Yomego entertainment platform. The recipients will then follow a link back to the Royal Blind site to decode the message.

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