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I recently learned about 2 sources of accessible instructions for blind people for building a variety of Lego sets. Of course, instructions are not available for all the Lego sets, but there are quite a few options from which to choose.</div>
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Lego has its own website and library of accessible building instructions, which can be found at the following link:</div>
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<a href="https://legoaudioinstructions.com/" id="OWA72c54d8e-fbd4-2b5f-51be-0b3e7095e619" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u>https://legoaudioinstructions.com/</u></a></div>
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As of the writing of this email, if you go to the above link and click on the All Instructions link, you will see that the Lego company has accessible instructions available for 131 Lego sets.</div>
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But even better, an organization called Bricks for the Blind has produced accessible instructions for 601 additional Lego sets. They are careful not to duplicate instructions that Lego has already produced. Here is the link to the Bricks for the Blind website,
and if you click on View All, you can see everything they have:</div>
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<a href="https://bricksfortheblind.org/" id="OWAb0f5855f-822a-d3f5-84b3-fdb0168b3bed" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u>https://bricksfortheblind.org/</u></a></div>
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And finally, if you would like to hear an interview with the founder and CEO of Bricks for the Blind, Matthew Shifrinthe, who is blind himself, check out this excerpt from the Double Tap podcast:</div>
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