Cincinnati organization creates business cards to help visually-impaired people

The largest manufacturer of braille in the world is nestled in College Hill at Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.Ryan Miller is excited to be part of a partnership with TriHealth to create business cards for health professionals that come with a twist.”Someone hands you a business card that is typically a print card that is inaccessible to someone who is blind,” Miller said. “Everything that you would see and take for granted.”The new cards have four dots so people who are visually impaired can find the QR code on the card.”I’m going to try and center the camera over these four dots… contact contact. So right away it picked it up,” Miller showed WLWT.Then a screen reader program on your phone called Voice Over reads it out loud.Miller is one of the proofreaders on the project and makes sure the braille matches the print. TriHealth and Clovernook believe this is just the beginning for businesses looking for a way to be more…

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