The Library of Congress has a free reading program for blind and physically handicapped individuals and offers publications in Braille and recorded books and magazines to persons who cannot hold a book or see well enough to read regular print. Special playback equipment is available on a loan basis from the Library of Congress, and cassettes and recordings on discs can be ordered from about 160 cooperating libraries. Anyone who is medically certified as unable to hold a book or read ordinary print because of a visual handicap can borrow these materials postage-free and return them in the same manner.
Eligibility extends to visually, physically, and perceptually handicapped individuals.
One of RFB's special services is a collection of cassettes of a wide variety of consumer publications from the federal government.