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Speaker 1: You ever try to build a Lego set while blindfolded.

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Speaker 1: It's tricky, but with the help of Newton's Matthew Schiffrin,

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Speaker 1: I was able to complete one whole go kart and

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Speaker 1: a driver. Schiffrin runs a nonprofit, Bricks for the Blind,

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Speaker 1: which turns out text based instructions for Lego sets like this.

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Speaker 1: He was inspired early in childhood.

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Speaker 2: I had this wonderful family friend, Lilia Finkel, and she

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Speaker 2: created the first ever set of accessible Lego building instructions.

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Speaker 1: Normally, the set's just come with a booklet full of illustrations.

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Speaker 1: Shiffrin says he's looking to help out blind kids in

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Speaker 1: the same way he was held here.

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Speaker 2: I was able to do this thing that my friends

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Speaker 2: had been doing for years, and they've been doing it

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Speaker 2: so intuitively, and here I was finally able to do it.

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Speaker 1: They've converted close to five hundred sets so far, and

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Speaker 1: all the instructions are free, and I could say from

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Speaker 1: first hand experience, it's a special feeling to hold that

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Speaker 1: completed set in your hand.

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Speaker 3: Okay, cool, you're done, let me see let me just

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Speaker 3: take the blindfl it. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shaffele WBZ, Boston's news radio