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LEGO Fan Matthew Shifrin Discusses Building while Blind


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The pictorial language of LEGO building instructions has long helped make LEGO sets accessible to fans regardless of age, language, or reading ability. Even so, they are generally not of any use to the blind. To tackle this obstacle, blind LEGO fan Matthew Shifrin and his friend Lilya started a project called LEGO for the Blind, transcribing the visual instructions as text for use by other vision-impaired builders. Matthew

about this project and his experiences with congenital blindness for the PBS digital series BrainCraft. Follow the links above for more information, or read on to watch the video!

 

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