Our Mission

National Braille Press empowers the blind and visually impaired with programs, materials, and technology supporting braille literacy and learning through touch.

Discover Braille

Braille transcription is an art! Only a certified braille transcriber can create perfect braille. Want to know more? Find out how to become a braille transcriber.

In the Bookstore

Celebrate Your Graduates!

Gifts for graduates from nursery school or college! Magnets to tuck into a card, gift books to celebrate the day, or guides to help launch a graduate into the next phase of life.

Browse gifts for graduates

Braille for Business

Braille Business Solutions

Make a lasting first impression with braille business cards! We provide unique, custom business cards printed with your design, large type, and pressed with braille.

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Support Us

Braille Literacy is Literacy!

Comcast has started airing a new ad highlighting our mission to promote braille literacy in the blind and low vision community.

Watch the new ad here

Teaching Braille

Free Braille Ignition Kits!

Announcing the return of TVI Braille Ignition Kits — free kits that support Teachers of the Visually Impaired (TVIs) with educational resources for you and your students.

Publications

Explore 3D Printing

Technology writer Judy Dixon explores the usefulness and possibilities of 3D-printing in 3D Printing: What to Know and How Blind Users Can Make Their Own Objects.

Events

NBP Annual Meeting

Celebrate National Braille Press's 99th Annual Meeting on June 16th with community, special honorees, volunteer recognition, and exciting updates on braille literacy initiatives.

RSVP for the Annual Meeting

Braille is Literacy

Braille Alphabet Card

Get Started: Download a PDF version of the braille alphabet or shop for classroom packs of embossed alphabet cards. First time visitors can order a free embossed braille alphabet card.

Take me to the braille alphabet cards

Volunteer!

Help put braille books in the hands of blind children.

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Kids Programs

Hands On! Books for Blind Children

Programs Promoting Braille Literacy

Braille Textbooks

No student wants to be left behind, check out our textbooks.

Browse our catalog of braille textbooks