Dr. Judith Dixon

Judith M. Dixon is the retired Consumer Relations Officer at the National Library Service for the Blind  and Print Disabled, Library of Congress in Washington, DC. During her forty-one years at the library,  she was concerned with all aspects of reading and access to information by people with print  limitations. In recent years, the advent of new technologies has brought about an increased availability  of information access through many types of assistive devices and services and she has been in the  forefront.  

Dr. Dixon earned a B.A. from Stetson University, DeLand, Florida in 1974; an M.A. from Adelphi  University, Garden City, New York, in 1976; and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology also from Adelphi in 1980.  

In addition to publishing numerous articles, she edited the volume "Braille into the Next Millennium"  published by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress  in 2000. She served as Chair of the Braille Authority of north America from 2007 through 2011 and  Secretary of the International Council on English Braille (ICEB) from 2008 to 2016. She continued to  serve on ICEB’s Executive Committee, and in 2020, she was elected President of ICEB. 

Among her many awards, Dr. Dixon was the 2005 recipient of the Francis Joseph Campbell Award from  the American Library Association for her many years of excellent work in the field of library service for  blind and physically handicapped persons and for her pioneering efforts in the area of electronic braille  materials on thee Internet through the NLS service, Web-Braille. She was also the 2009 recipient of the  

American Foundation for the Blind's Gallagher Award for serving as an outstanding role model to  others who have vision loss, the 2010 recipient of the American Council of the Blind’s Robert S. Bray  Award, and the 2022 recipient of the American Foundation for the Blind’s Migel Medal, the highest  award in the blindness field in the United States. 

One of her hobbies is writing books for National Braille Press about things that are important to her.  These include braille and mobile devices. She has authored or co-authored seventeen titles. They  include: 

• Label It! Braille and Audio Strategies for Identifying Items at Home and Work; • Get the Picture! Viewing the World with the iPhone Camera; 

• Anyone Can Play: Accessible Games for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch; 

• Out and About: Our Favorite Travel Apps; 

• The Abundant Bookshelf: Reading Books on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch; • Your Personal Path to Fitness: Finding What Works for You; 

• Identifying and Labeling Everything: Recognizing the Items in Your Life;

• Capturing and Sharing the World: Taking Photos and Videos with an iPhone; • Audio Description: What it is, Where to Find it, and how to Use it; • Go Where You Wanna Go: Using GPS on the iPhone; and • Writing Your Way: Composing and Editing on an iPhone or iPad.