Elevators, room signs, some vending machines, ATMs, ticket kiosks for subway/LRT... I've stayed in a couple hotels that have used a braille labeler to label various things in the room.

That's about all I've noticed, but I'm not a braille reader, so I don't go seeking it out, really.

Pretty standard on pharma packaging in Germany. The new Ubahn line in Berlin has braille on the handrails indicating station and directions of travel. Common in state museums

I found out about $1 last year. The Braille was uncontracted, and had a mistake in it but was still pretty darn cool to see it in the wild. I gifted a 4 pack to my Braille instructor.

Only product I’ve encountered in the U.S. so far.

I see it normally on medicine packages here in Brazil. Still, I am sight impaired and I went to the supermarket the other day and thought price tags in Braille would help a lot. Those numbers are so damn small even my brother in law who has a fairly good sight struggled to read sometimes.

So I am in Ontario Canada and the local chocolate company Purdy's Chocolates had their one box done up with Braille, a label on the top, a label saying left and right, as well as all the chocolate names laid out in the grid. They even had the Braille grid but no accompanying print grid so the sighted person had to experience what I experience when searching out chocolates of having to ask for help.

A few headphones I have come across had the L and the R printed so you knew the right way to wear them. And I also remember the plastic push up notches on to-go cup lids back in the day from fast food restaurants that said "diet" or "other" so you knew which drink was which.

Not public, but thr remote control for our new TV has braille, and not just the single dot used for keypad orientation but the channel and volume buttons have actual braille beside them

Also I'm noticing more and more that shop credit cars machines are getting less accessible? Many have a think plastic overlay so the dot on the 5 isn't noticeable and they don't beep anymore so you can't count how many buttons you've pressed

Maybe it's just me

Our national art gallery I'd noticed for a few years has braille and large print books for visitors. Previously we haven't used them because of my daughters age and lack of literacy. We went a couple of months ago and asked for them but cos of covid that had all been removed

Sadly it's very rare in the UK.

I think I came across a shampoo bottle that just said "shampoo" on it once and there might have been a bisket box too with "biskets" on but that's about it.

It's on the tablet boxes by law though so we have that.

On elevators, some signs and in things like museums and exhibitions. Other than that, all of our prescription drugs that come in boxes like this must have braille name and dose (like 500mg), but the braille is usually very shallow and hard to read. Other than that not much in public.

Actually it’s pretty common here in Australia!

Absolutely non-existent here in Australia afaik :(

Bull Moose in Waterville Maine has a review on google stating they have braille on their chargers, I have one from there that says USB C in braille.

Picture description: person holding “Brilinta 90 mg” medication box with label written in print and Braille.

Before I go on, I didn’t include a translation of all the print on the medication box because it’s not written in English (I believe it’s Turkish?) and I don’t read Turkish, so I apologize for that.

So I saw this random post on Reddit of someone asking if this was a safe medication, and I was so surprised to see the medication box was also embossed in Braille. I’m curious to know how many times you’ve all encountered this. I can count on one hand in the last 6 years (since my son was born, who is completely blind) how many times I’ve encountered items intended for the “general public,” like medications, that were also embossed with Braille. The only times I’ve ever encountered Braille in public is on signs and such. Is this common in other countries? Has anyone encountered this in the US?

Not really anything and when I encounter something very rarely I am so surprised it’s a keep sake.

I found a set of plastic plates that had braille at the bottom mostly saying what’s it made of and that it is dishwasher safe. It was pretty neat. When I found them I was so astounded but so happy that I immediately bought them and had them for like 10 years now.

Someone did bring an english medicine thing to me to examine and that was cool but not much else. I mean the usual but honestly nothing else.

I mean there are the braille cards, but really yeah, no.


Oh there’s one more thing. But it’s from another country. When I went back to hong kong I had to renew my citizenship card. It’s almost like your naturalization paperwork here in the Us but even for people born over there. Your ID card if you will. And had to be renewed as an adult. I took it home to the Us and didn’t really think much about it or notice much about it. A long while later I realized that oh wait…. That’s braille on my hong kong citizenship ID card. It had my 3 digit id or the last three maybe in braille. I was like that’s definitely braille and not random bumpy stuff or engraving. It’s really light but yeah, I think it is….. it was pretty cool.

I treat braille included things as an exception then a rule.

Not actually a Braille user but this is such a fascinating topic that I have been feeling of variety of things in the last few minutes.

Packaging Box for eye drops from Germany has Braille the actual bottle does not.

The back of a pocket sized bottle of antibacterial gel antibacterial gel purchased in Germany does not have Braille but the caution symbol is raised

Box of vein health pills purchased in some Slavic country has no braille .

Fascinating!