Images: Visual relief for the nearly blind

Goldring, who is also a poet, said she greatly missed the pleasure of visual language once she lost her sight. She responded by developing an English-language dictionary, "Visual Language for the Blind," that incorporates symbols and pictures to convey meaning. So far, the dictionary contains nouns, verbs and words linked to spatial concepts, such as the word "across", as illustrated here.

Photo by Elizabeth Goldring