This is LEGO Audio and Braille Instructions

LEGO Play is for everyone, which is why we’re excited to launch LEGO Audio and Braille Instructions. For more info, visit legoaudioinstructions.com
Explore Matthew’s original work here: legofortheblind.com/instructions/

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These blind children are building with LEGO Audio & Braille Instructions

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A free service that gives visually impaired people a new way to build

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The instructions were inspired by Matthew Shifrin, a blind LEGO fan…
who developed his own project to make LEGO instructions accessible

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I went into elementary school
and a lot of my friends were very big LEGO fans
but the issue was that I had absolutely no way
of building any of these sets on my own
simply because the instructions are graphical

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So together with a family friend Matthew created braille versions of LEGO instructions

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The text based instructions began when
Lilya, a family friend, gave me this big cardboard box
and this big fat binder
In this cardboard box was an 821 piece Prince of Persia castle
and in the binder were these text-based instructions
that she had brailled on a braille typewriter, by hand
I realized that I couldn’t keep these instructions to myself
and that blind children deserved to learn using LEGO
and engage with the world around them using LEGO sets
So then I build legofortheblind.com
on to that website we put all of the
text based instructions that we’d made
As soon as the legofortheblind website went up
we got hundreds of emails saying
‘This is so great, can you make this set accessible, and that set accessible?’
And the trouble was we had to turn these people down
because it was just me and her, a two person operation
So then I got in touch with The LEGO Foundation
and asked if they would be interested in creating
their own text based instructions for their sets
and the amazing thing is that now LEGO are taking action
creating their own text based instructions
so that a blind child could build their sets, all on their own
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A global pilot scheme with instructions for four LEGO sets has been launched
with a long-term ambition for all sets to be accessible to blind children

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Our goal was to make these sets as accessible to as many people as possible
in whichever ways are easiest for you

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As well as screen reader and audio versions of the instructions…
you can also choose to read the instructions with a braille reader

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What LEGO sets are able to do
is that they’re able to help you understand the world around you
in a way that – you’re in London, let’s say
and a double-decker bus passes you by
someone says ‘there was a tour bus that passed us’
you could say ‘I know what that looks like, I built it a couple of weeks ago’
and that’s very important to blind children
because they can’t use photographs, they can’t use pictures
and as a result they really get left out
of a lot of knowledge that sighted people are used to
And it’s just very important that they have the opportunity
to build this miniature LEGO world out of a jumble of bricks
and really know that
what they thought was impossible, is now possible

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For more information visit legoaudioinstructions.com

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