American Foundation for the Blind York City headquarters. Louis Braille was the Frenchman who invented the raised dot code that bears his name. On January 4, 2009, the 200th anniversary of his birth, AFB created an online gallery that includes pictures of him and digitized books and articles. AFB's main headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia. Other offices include New York City; Dallas, Texas; and Huntington, West Virginia. In 2012, AFB added VisionAware to its family of sites in partnership with the "Reader's Digest" Partners for Sight Foundation. The site folded in content from AFB's Senior Site, with new information and resources for adults of all
The Central Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Handicapped (Israel) Grünthal, translated books to Braille. In 1959 the library started also producing audio cassettes. In 2004 the effort to convert the audio cassettes, which were produced until that point, to CD format began, alongside producing new books in CD audio format. The library nowadays (2012) produces CDs, Braille books, and large print books. The Central Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Handicapped (Israel) The Central Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Handicapped (Israel) (Hebrew: הספרייה המרכזית לעיוורים, כבדי ראיה ומוגבלים) supplies people who cannot read books, for various disabilities, with books which are suitable for them, either in