Hubble Space Telescope Images For The Blind

Anonymous Coward writes "Paraphrasing this article from CNN: An astronomer and a science teacher for the deaf and blind have teamed up to make Hubble images accessible to the unsighted as well as the sighted. Hubble images are presented in full color, with raised plastic overlays. Information is written in text and braille. Each image has it's own key so that visually impaired readers know which texture represents which color or object. The blind sutudents who helped refine the book were excited to have this type of information presented to them. Early Hubble images helped persuade me to pursue an advanced degree in astronomy. It's hard to imagine what it would be like to be blind from birth and "feel" space. I'm sure it's much different than a sighted person's interpretation of space, but probably no less spectacular."