We have had more than our fair share of medicines in our home (and with nine people, even our fair share is substantial). In all these years, this is the first time I’ve seen a box include a Braille label.

I know, from my years in publishing, that embossing adds substantially to the cost of printing, so I can understand that adding Braille is not an obvious decision for a manufacturer. Nonetheless, in the quantities that pharmaceutical companies must be printing, the embossing should amortize nicely.

I assume that accessibility laws do not demand Braille labeling of drugs… but it sure seems to me that they should. Kudos to Merck for providing equal-access safety to their product, and here’s hoping it’s the beginning of a long-overdue trend.

Also recommended: Deborah Adler’s ClearRx design, implemented by the far-sighted management of Target.