Braille labels are an excellent way of telling the difference between the cans in your kitchen cupboard, the CDs in your audio collection and the seed packets in your green house.
Increasingly there are commercially available products that are braille labelled by manufacturers but it is very easy and cheap to
make your own braille labels using products available from the RNIB shop.
Home and garden
In the kitchen, small braille labels can be added to domestic appliances such as the touch control panel on a microwave and as well as labelling cans and packets with their names, you could also add the sell by date.
DVDs can be labelled with just the title or you could include actors, genre and synopsis.
With a bit of time and assistance, card and board games can be adapted so that everyone can continue to enjoy playing the family favourites.
Outside in the shed you could label containers so that you can tell the difference between the weed killer and the plant food and flowers and vegetable plants can be labelled with their names and care instructions.
Packaging
Many of the Co-Op own brand goods have basic information, such as the product name, in uncontracted (grade 1) braille on their packaging.
Also, due to recent EU regulation, pharmaceutical companies are increasingly required to braille the product name and strength on the packaging of their medicines.
Labelling shopping guide
For more information about labelling products and practical hints and tips for labelling items around the home and garden,
read our shopping guide.
Other ways to label
There are all sorts of ways of
labelling items around the home to help you identify them easily. We sell a range of
labelling products in our online shop to help you out.