Abstract: A method of information transfer for sightless persons, sighted persons and mixed sightless and sighted persons comprises the steps of choosing and conveying a message from a stock of messages, the messages being set forth on a message medium in optically discernible form and in tactilely discernible form, said forms at least partly corresponding. The optical form comprises text and/or pictorial depictions, and the tactile form comprises braille. The method is especially applicable to greeting cards.