Posts about Tactile Graphics

Braille and tactile materials to support Vision-Impaired students – workshop reflections

To celebrate World Braille Day (4 Jan), we’re releasing this blog post about a workshop that we ran in October 2025, introducing staff to braille and ways to support our blind students who use braille at the University. Despite the prevalence of digital technologies, braille is still very important for literacy, to support multiple modes … Continue reading Braille and tactile materials to support Vision-Impaired students – workshop reflections

Braille Matters

The Jisc Accessibility Community ran a Drop-In on the 1st October entitled ‘Braille Matters’. We had a very enlightening presentation by Elizabeth McCann from the Scottish Sensory Centre, introducing the history of braille and why it is still important despite the prevalence of digital technology. I was invited to give my perspective as a learning … Continue reading Braille Matters

Creating tactile graphics for VI students – part 3

Tactile resources are useful to supplement the digital versions of resources, enabling a student to use multiple senses to understand the data, patterns and connections. In Part 1 of our Tactile Graphics blog series, I was just starting to tackle the heatmap resource shown below. Lots of digital tools are good at providing data through … Continue reading Creating tactile graphics for VI students – part 3

Creating tactile graphics for VI students – part 2

Tactile resources and alternative formats This is the second blog post about our efforts to find alternative formats to make teaching materials accessible to visually impaired students. Previously on this blog, Lilian’s blog post focused on the challenges of expressing different kinds of graphs in tactile formats, a common problem in supporting visually impaired students … Continue reading Creating tactile graphics for VI students – part 2