This article presents the selected comments of a nationwide sample of teachers of students who are blind or visually impaired. The teachers responded to a survey that asked them to express their attitudes about braille literacy for them and for their students. Their comments, gathered incidentally to the quantitative data, reveal that teachers hold strong opinions and care deeply about the literacy skills of their students.
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