Talk of Town Café at The Palace hotel, Sliema has created a braille version of its menu to make its services more accessible to customers with a visual impairment.

The menus were launched at Talk of Town Café in partnership with the Foundation for Information Technology Accessibility Malta, who helped design and emboss the menu.

“This initiative aims to provide comfort and independence to clients with a visual impairment. The menu features food and beverage items and prices in a large font and in braille. Regular ink print in larger letters was also printed on the menu, which can be read easier by people with low vision,” James Galea, operations manager at The Palace and The Victoria Hotels, said.

The Braille menu aims to provide comfort and independence to clients with a visual impairment.The Braille menu aims to provide comfort and independence to clients with a visual impairment.

Stanley Debono, the foundation’s CEO, had words of praise for this initiative, adding that the café had managed to impress “our vision-impaired community with its active interest through the introduction of a braille version of its menu. Thanks to help offered by staff members at this outlet, people with a visual impairment can feel at home”.

Joseph Cauchi from local NGO Advice said that although he doesn’t know how to read braille, “the way this menu is designed makes it easy for any person, including those with low vision, to read and understand it. Like everyone else, we appreciate the fact that places like Talk of Town Café are offering accessibility to clients, including the vision-impaired community”.

The hotels’ manager, Kevin Callus, said: “At The Palace and all other hotels within the AX group, we strive to go beyond what is required, push boundaries, think out of the box and be leaders in the industry to provide a comfortable and memorable stay for our guests.”

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