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  • Area of Work: Scottish Sensory Hub
  • Type: News Item
  • Published: 30th September 2026
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Are you blind or partially sighted? Share your experience of food packaging in a short UK-wide survey.

The Braille Food Labelling Campaign brings together Sight Scotland, Sight Scotland Veterans, Disability Equality Scotland, and the Oban and District Access Panel.

We are calling for braille on food packaging so that Blind and Partially Sighted people can identify what they are about to eat, with a greater level of safety — as it is already required by law on medicines. 

Most food packaging carries no braille at all. This means many Blind and Partially Sighted people cannot tell what a product is, when it needs to be used by, or whether it is safe for them to eat — without asking someone else for help.

A braille label would give the most important information first: the name of the product. This is the same approach already used on medicines, where braille identifies the product on the box.

We would like to see the braille label placed beside the QR code/NaviLens, so that if more detailed information is needed, it can be found easily — either with technology or with visual assistance.

Our survey asks about your own experience of food labelling: how often you have difficulty identifying food, what happens when you do, and what would help. Your answers will help us build the evidence needed to make the case for braille on food packaging. 

We would like to hear from anyone who is Blind or Partially Sighted — whether or not you read braille. If you don’t use braille, or are just starting to learn, your experience matters just as much.

Take the online survey here.

It is open until 31 October 2026.

Please email policy@sightscotland.org.uk to receive the survey in the accessible format of your choice.

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